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Inner thoughts and anxiety clawing at her. 
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Clawing Anxiety

Kinley Waltman, Staff Writer October 6, 2021

I have a fear of having to perform,  It makes my emotions a thunderstorm.   The sensation within makes me ill,  The feeling leaves me fragile.   I attempt to speak with weak...

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...

The road ahead of you may be seemingly empty and alone, but never lose hope. Stand up when you fall and keep moving when you cannot keep going.

In Oblivion

Rachel (Rae) Lee, Staff Writer January 27, 2016

There is so much soul And so much passion In so many beautiful things. Beautiful and dark. Trying to draw my feelings, They always end up dark And empty: One singular thing All...

: Sophomores Carolyn Baird, Tori McCord (NFHS) and Lydia Lindsey (Central High School) enjoy their time spent together at Browns Bridge Community Church. (Photo used with permission of Tori McCord).

Safe

Rachel McCord, Staff Writer May 7, 2015

I recently experienced one of those moments where I looked in the mirror and thought, “I am so incredibly unlovable.” I am sure all of us have had some of these moments when we realized it is not always...

“Bright lights filling my mind	
cease to light the way. Fiery blood once flowing through my veins 
stops cold in its tracks.”

The Disappeared

Grace Hanks, Staff Writer December 19, 2014

Gone is the breath that once filled my lungs. Gone is the pain that once filled this cavity in my soul   Bright lights filling my mind cease to light the way Fiery blood once...

The balance between light and darkness is held within the minds of those who have seen beyond the brink.

Sanity’s Brink

Bim Peacock, Staff Writer May 12, 2014

They know nothing Not anything Never a thing Never a word A voice A sound A whisper in the night A scream on the wind Not even the hush of night No Never does madness reach them Never do the...

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