By Chidima Anekwe ’24 Editor-in-Chief Random Disclaimer (Tyler the Creator style): “Red Vines” was written as a creative exercise in response to “Cat Person” by Kristen Roupenian, a short story published in the New Yorker that went viral a few years ago. My piece takes the exposition of the story and reorients it in the…
Category: Voices
The Other Me
By Lula Talenfeld ‘ 25 Staff Writer/Events Director I used to share my sister’s room. Now, it is just hers and she’s about to turn 17, but the curtains are still the same. Ikea, blue, polka dots, sheerer than we expected so the black-out shades behind them are always pulled at least halfway down. Most…
Before Avery R Young
By Chidima Anekwe ’24 Editor-In-Chief Black is the nation which we delivered “Delivered us from evil” and arose From the water, cold water she shivered Her ancestors dance as the hot sun glows Singing and beating a drum, a rhythm My heart knows and pounds along beating red Bleeding red and she kisses the wound…
The Next Best American Girl
By Anaiis Rios-Kasoga ’25 Editor-In-Chief The best American girl lives in a three-story house across the line that divides our towns in a city I used to try and call my own. She lives there with her brother he made varsity this year Her father is the best orthodontist for miles and their dog Marly…
Stop Looking at Me
By Anaiis Rios-Kasoga ’25 Editor-in-Chief Life steams up from under the streets rising in thick tendrils between grates along the sidewalk. Through the haze, I can just make out the shapeless faces of the mass that pushes against my body. They’re not real people. When I walk up 14th I’m supposed to pretend there is…