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Who would have thought he was there?

Case Closed

Christina Manes, Staff Writer September 18, 2023

She ran to the voice to find a skinny young man looking helpless, and she knew her hunch was right, a beaming smirk flew across her face for a second.    "Are you ok sir?" Janet said as she...

Beware of the beast within. Photo by Morgan Maxwell.

The Day He Snapped

Kinley Waltman, Staff Writer May 5, 2022

At 11:43 p.m., it was silent. The only sound was the crickets chirping and the breeze of the wind slapping against the tree leaves. Carson’s heart was pounding as he hurried through the chilling woods....

Ellis’s American Psycho is not a bed-time story.

American Psycho Earned a New Spot in my Heart

Erin Dickman, Staff Writer May 5, 2015

I never knew how it would feel to be an emotionless, psychopathic murderer until I read Ralph Easton Ellis’s American Psycho.  The main character, Patrick Bateman, haunts the reader’s mind as he blends...

When your path is so plainly lain before you, what choice is there?

Blameless

Colin Bergen, Staff Writer April 17, 2015

The hour is uncertain. The road in front of me, vast and without apparent end. My destination is there,  just beyond the edge of the rain. “Fine night to be about,’ ey?”, said a passer-by. The...

“And then I saw it. There, upon the white of my perfect, perfect shirt.”

Godliness

Colin Bergen, Staff Writer October 20, 2014

Monday. 2:28 PM. Must hurry. Train departs at 3:30, approximately 1 hour and two minutes from now. That leaves me twenty minutes before I must absolutely, positively leave. No reason to worry. I...

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