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Everyone has passed through the fear of the darkness. Every child will go through it. There is nothing to do, but to try and help them forget their fear.

A Child’s Greatest Fear

Nazmeydi Maldonado-Perez, Staff Writer March 24, 2016

I don’t like when the room goes dark, Neither does Teddy. Everywhere I look I see eyes looking at me. I cover my eyes so I don’t have to see them, But I can still feel them. I can...

With a single spark, everything in a dark world can change, even the course of time itself.

A Spark to a Blind Eye

Bim Peacock, Photo Editor May 8, 2015

Forever stalks the night across these barren fields of dust.  Its step falls with reigning control as warden of all that ever breathed, all that ever sought to strike out and grasp reality, to grasp the...

When the candles are lit on All Hallow’s Eve and sneering faces glow across the darkness, whose path do they light?  Whose darkness do they ignite?  Listen closely, and you’ll know the tale of Jack’s foolish deal with the Devil, and why his face lights our doorsteps the night when the spirits return.

Jack of the Lantern

Bim Peacock, Photo Editor October 31, 2014

Sticks and stones. Skulls and bones.  Of honor and bravery, no legends are told. Sneers and Cackles. Wails and shackles.  Of blood and madness, birth stories of old.             Across...

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