Creative

By: Zoey Zhang The week prior to Valentine’s Day, Sir Captain Credit made a grand entrance in a pink heart-shaped stretch limousine. When he pointed his diamond-studded, bejeweled hand, all of the stores became full of vases of flowers, boxes of candies, and sparkling diamonds. It did not take long before the couples in the town felt an urgency to create bigger and more extravagant displays of love than the previous couple. Sir Captain Credit ordered everyone to “Show off how

By: Raul Montano Alvarado The Dark  The Light Of Red, Blue, Green, & White In the hotel of beauty & might One more night before I go To my favorite place, my home I know A party, they say, that I shall attend The last night here, should be one which I want no end I see my friends by the water’s meet On a dance with fun, and of so sweet Popular songs that topped the charts To Spanish ballads I know from heart But then I see her on the floor of dance Which makes my heart start

The Second City on a Day the Nation Stood Still By: Pranav Damera No one in Chicago woke up expecting the sky to feel dangerous. The morning air was cool enough to remind you autumn was coming, and Lake Michigan had that early-sun shimmer that makes the city look cleaner than it really is. People rode the Red Line with backpacks and folded newspapers, bought coffee from corner carts, and hurried across streets that smelled faintly of diesel and bakery steam drifting out of th

By: Collin Wang Trigger warning: death, suicide, violence, and rape. The Nanjing Massacre was a six-week tragedy during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1938) in which large numbers of Chinese civilians were killed, raped, and subjected to atrocities. hopscotch i. the children play hopscotch one, two,  three bare feet trying to avoid the unknown  of the aftermath: a neighbor, still in her pale white  dress, tied, knotted, a frayed rope, limp legs dancing a waltz, before  a

By: Daniel Rondon Arthur was a young man who lived in Paris. He was pessimistic; for two years, he had been brought down by his...

Can you spot the Earth? By: Pranav Damera I was never built to come home. From the moment the rocket lifted me off Earth in 1977, I...

By: Raul Montano Alvarado The valor mansion, of soul & heart Lying in the countryside, so far apart The adobe so old, and its story so...

Napoleon’s Quietly Pondered Moments By: Pranav Damera The waves of Saint Helena struck the shore with steady indifference. Napoleon...

A Philosophical Tale Inspired by Alfred Wegener Alfred Wegener was a German climatologist and geologist best known for proposing the...