Xanax Rappers: Your Drug Addictions Are Not Beautiful
Holley Murray, Literature Editor
May 6, 2019
“Running away from you takes time and pain, and I don’t even want to / So I’m getting high all week without you, popping pills, thinking about you.” An enthralled crowd in El Paso, Texas sang out these lyrics at a Lil Peep concert on Nov. 14, 2017. The very next day, Lil Peep would be found dead at only 21 y...
The Death Of Luke Perry
Jordan Fowler, Staff Writer
March 29, 2019
Coy Luke Perry died at the age of 52. He was taken to the hospital after having a massive stroke. After reaching the hospital and being in an unresponsive state, he was taken off of life support on March 4, 2019. Perry was a famous actor and voice artist. One of his most famous roles was ...
41st President, George Bush, Dies At 94
Kana Mullee, Staff Writer
December 17, 2018
“Some political people do lie all the time, and step over their friend to achieve the objective themselves. But I’m one who believes that one’s word of honor is about one of the most fundamentally important things there is.” George H.W. Bush George Herbert Walker Bush was born in Milton, Massachuset...
Fatal Friday
Ramya Raja, News/Sports Editor
December 20, 2017
Sleep and drowsiness clouded his vision as Eli realized the time visible on the clock in front of him. He bolted upright, stumbled out of bed, and began scrambling for clothes. “I can’t be late, not again,” Eli muttered to himself as he stumbled out the door without grabbing a bite to eat. Eli...
A Postmortem for Vine
Noah Smith, Lit Mag Editor
December 20, 2017
The year 2012 brought the news of a death total of 2,000 in the Afghan war, the reelection of Barack Obama and the birth of the social media platform Vine. Vine was founded in the summery sweet June heat of 2012 with one simple idea: six second looping videos. Users would have the ability to film anything...
Stiff as Granite
Emily Stocksdale, Literature Editor
May 19, 2017
She had fallen in love with him slowly, over the course of four squandered years. He had loved her from the minute he saw her, and had vowed never to leave her, regardless of the reason. He had repeated that vow so many times that she had come to take it for granted, to take him for granted. Now,...
The Murder That Haunted
Kenya Espinoza, Staff Member
April 19, 2017
The wooden floor began to sing an alarming melody, as I silently lay on my bed. A cool breeze danced into the room and began to nibble at my skin, making it jump. Strange figures began to form in the corner of my room. They stared and smirked as they noticed the fear consuming me. Hesitantly I arose...
Selfish God
Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer
May 23, 2016
One of the differences between me and the person I love is that she has conversations with the sun and I have conversations with the graveyard outside my neighborhood. It makes for interesting chitchat. I’m sitting beside her having a picnic on the tombstones, and she talks to the sun and God and I...
Standardized Testing is Madness
Jade Flack, Staff Writer
May 11, 2016
As a sophomore student, I think I speak for everyone when I say: testing is hell. During these last few weeks of 2015-2016 school year, we are bombarded with pointless and redundant projects, essays, EOCTs, SLOs, and final exams. All these standardized tests are mandated for primarily one goal: to measure...
An Infinite Cacophony of Light
Tinaye Gibbons, Staff Writer
April 15, 2016
Stars are not meant to be heard. Endlessly floating, Surrounded by dust and emptiness With oblivion awaiting them. Stars speak their own language. Elegantly phrasing, Beckoned by thoughts and avidness With billions listening in. Stars see pinpricks of flashes. Swiftly decaying, Observed by regard a...
The Fox on the Rocks
Bim Peacock, Literature Editor
March 24, 2016
The Fox strolled in, bound down by chain The rabbits and rats, thrushes and cats Cried high for blood, for such to fall like rain. Slammed the gavel of stone, the Stag Magistrate “Silence your shouts! Quiet your snouts! All rise for the hearing, the Fox vs. the State!” He...
Wraith of the Riverstone Reel
Bim Peacock, Literature Editor
January 14, 2016
Listen closely, dearest child, but surely not to me. Listen to that breeze that blows every autumn from the hilltop, that catches your hat and plucks it from your feather hair. It is not the wind that whistles among the streets, dear child; listen closer. Yes, you hear it, do you not? Hear the...
Anna Anglin, Web Editor
May 7, 2019
Although Jordan Peele’s newest film, “Us” is not the happy ending and easy to understand plot that his previous film “Get Out” was, it presents its own kind of masterpiece...
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