— Guest post by anonymous — Last summer was a long summer, I spent most of my days in the basement on my computer because I had nothing to do the whole season, but I couldn’t stand it anymore THE MONOTONY WAS DRIVING ME CRAZY the only place I knew of was a lake inContinue reading “Lake Monologue: An Impossibly Long Train of Thought”
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I Just Thought Of A Really Good Metaphor: “Change”
She watched him pull out a dinged up can from his drawer and dump the contents out onto his desk: a few crinkled bills and scraps of paper, but mostly just a shower of coins. “My prized coin collection from seventh grade,” he muttered. “Never knew it’d end up like this.” With a smirk, heContinue reading “I Just Thought Of A Really Good Metaphor: “Change””
This Wolf Feels Nothing But Hopelessness
The wolf feels the arrows. It feels the pointed ends sticking into the flesh between her shoulder blades. Damn, how did the hunter find her only soft spot? The tenderest part? The hunter was skilled; the wolf feels the arrowheads stab her sharply with every movement…every lifting of the paw, every crane of the neck. EveryContinue reading “This Wolf Feels Nothing But Hopelessness”
English is My Favorite Subject
In 9th grade, English was all about hammering down the basics of essays. We learned how to construct a thesis and communicate an argument in five paragraphs. In 10th grade, it was about perfecting the structures of the papers that we wrote. It was incorporating quotes appropriately and eliminating “to-be” verbs. In 11th grade, weContinue reading “English is My Favorite Subject”
Cat Zhang 