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The student news site of North Forsyth High School

The Raider Wire

The student news site of North Forsyth High School

The Raider Wire

The student news site of North Forsyth High School

The Raider Wire

The beachball that stayed inflated since 2016 is now deflated.

To Defeat a Decade

February 27, 2026

In my arms I hold a dying body; deflated-- colorful and faded.   On my arms I feel slow yet steady breath: feather-light, nostalgic, and bright.   “By God,...

 Little rodent finds cheese.

My Name Is Lyon

Juno Nuqui, Staff Writer November 14, 2025

How did I end up here? I don’t know, but I spot a block of cheese. It’s not necessarily a block, but it’s more of a shaving. The room I’m in is an odd shade of pink, like the flesh of a fileted...

A rustic, nostalgic guitar collecting dust.

The Lover I Left

Gabriella Miranda, Staff Writer September 12, 2025

Once, my hands strummed its strings Every chord a different melody Each one like a pulse of a heartbeat in metal Guitar is my first love Its strings the hands I hold Its songs effortlessly entrusting...

A nostalgic Christmas morning.

Christmas Morn

Kate Jennings, Editor in Chief December 13, 2024

The scent of pine, a frosted pane, Snowflakes falling, soft as rain. Laughter echoes, warm and bright, Candles flicker, casting light.   A crackling fire, stories told, Memories...

Oh, to be a kid again with no worries except when the next big wave is coming.

Oh, to be a kid again

Kinley Waltman, Editor-in-Chief February 13, 2024

  In the soft glow of twilight, I find myself wandering back, To the days of bare feet and endless summers, When time was a concept foreign to me.   No structured routines,...

New York’s famous Rockefeller Christmas Tree

Christmas is Still Here

Kate Jennings, Feature Editor December 12, 2023

What ever happened to Christmas? One day you blink, and it seems that all that childhood magic is gone.    When you’re growing up, Christmas is magical and joyful. Santa eats your cookies...

Photo by Wikimedia Commons.

Ghosts of the Past

Kiera Walker, Staff Writer April 25, 2023

Isn’t it weird how ghosts from the past come back into our lives? It’s like walking down a straight path but finding yourself turning back around to the beginning.   It is a very odd...

“It had been double-knotted, but my planet of a balloon, terrified by this endless ocean of alien people, slipped from my wrist and floated up and up and up… And then it was gone. Just like that.” (Art by Hannah Manikowski)

God’s Balloons

Hannah Manikowski, Editorial Editor October 14, 2014

I sit on the swings, kick off my dirtied sneakers, admire my Pepto-Bismol-pink socks, look to the sky, and theorize thus- God owns a startling number of balloons. I remember things. I close my eyes,...

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