Bergeron Post 13

For a night, I was a foreigner in a house full of people who drove into the country yesterday. Their mouths form words differently than mine and the men lock themselves away in a cloud of cigar smoke while the rest drink wine like water. "Are you American?" They asked and I did not know how to respond, for we were in America. Of course I was. The adults drank enough to make me feel a little drunk, even though I had not had a drop to drink. It was loud. A chaotic music. And somewhere, in all of that noise, I found him beside me and it all made sense.

Donaher Post 14

"You can't run from your problems"

"Watch me!"

"Wait, where are you going? This was supposed to be a philosophical discussion!"

But Gina was already gone, leaving Johnson in the dust.

Lex Luthor: 14

My family and I are not specifically religious, and I know many families that are not religious either yet, we all celebrate christmas, not as in the birth of Jesus, but in the holiday spirit of giving gifts and being with friends and family. This sensation is something that all people want, a sensation where you're together with family, that tingly sensation in your soul. I feel this when wrapping presents and giving them to people, the joy on people's faces when they receive a gift that means something brings a feeling indescribable.

Cianciolo Week 14

At a Christmas party there was a Yankee swap. While I ended up with a snoopy stuffed animal, my friend won a set of two shot glasses in the shape of a woman's torso. Everyone was the same age, but it is funny to see the gap in "maturity".

Kristen Post 14

When I was in elementary school and I started reading books, I thought it was the weirdest thing that characters thought in words instead of abstract... something-ness. But I wanted to be just like a fictional character, because, you know, that was awesome, so I started thinking in words too. But lately my head's been going back to thinking in that something-ness, and it's a lot harder to verbalize what I'm thinking, but there's a lot of surreal things happening in my head now, which might be better. I don't know. Thinking is weird.

Sydney Kim Post 14

A lot of my friends are upset over college applications and Ivy League schools and medical programs. It's times like these where DJ Khaled's wise words of wisdom come into play:

"Major Key: They don't want you to succeed. But we gonna. Bless up."

-DJ Khaled

In the end, most of us are going to be fine.

Hackley 14

• Saw this thing on facebook about what scientists thought the world would be like in 2045 → one thing they believe is that there will be robots designed to be controlled by thought alone. What if the robots developed to the point that they became smart enough to reverse that science and control the minds of the scientists?

Rochon 14

Looking back at my time in high school, I'm grateful for the mistakes I've made along the way. I don't think I could go back and redo any of it, but if I was given the chance I don't think I would want to change anything- otherwise things would be too different than they are now, and that would be a shame.

O'Neal Post 14

We have let clocks become our rulers. Time only exists because we say it does. It is unnatural and keeps us from achieving our full potential of happiness.

Lauren 14

I want to write a story where there's a Light Side and a Dark Side and someone's the Chosen One to save the world because the prophecy says so but the main character (who's on the Light Side) actually isn't the Chosen One because it's revealed that the Chosen One is leading the Dark Side. The MC is also revealed to be an heir to the Throne of Light. But in reality, the "Light Side" is what the true villains call themselves because they think they are the saviors of society and angels sent from heaven, and they see the true heroes as the cancer of the world that need to be destroyed, and so they call them the Dark Side because the villains believe they are morally justified in what they are doing, and the story never portrays their actions as evil because their perspective is all warped, until the truth is revealed.

The scary thing is, all true evil that exists in our world has this perspective. They don't see themselves as evil. And that's what makes true evil incredibly dangerous.

Lex Luthor: 13

You can't have everything in the world. Where would you put it all? ~Steven Wright

Gregg 14

When my sister and I were little, we had this plastic toy keyboard that my dad bought in hopes that we would actually want to play the piano some day. The keyboard came with demo songs that were supposed to help kids learn. So instead of actually trying to learn how to play, we would press the demo button, turn the volume and speed all the way up, and play jingle bells on repeat. We would then slide the keyboard under our parents’ door after our bedtime with jingle bells still playing.

Long story short, my dad ended up throwing the toy out the front door and into the woods. We never found it again. But guess what I bought my sister this Christmas.

Jain 14

Story (Poem Idea): A story about time. You can manipulate the story using black holes, and speeds greater than light speed, which would make it fun for the reader. 

Mathews 14

This generation has become too spoiled. Kids these days are too addicted to the internet. It really frustrates me. I can’t believe kids have access to infinite knowledge. Back in my day, we only had 

Rochon 11

I think missing someone is the greatest of all evils, especially if they don't miss you back.

Rochon 10

My sister got into college over the weekend. I'd been at a swim meet, and when she first found out I was the first person she wanted to tell. She was hiccuping and sobbing so hard into the phone that I had to hold it away from my ear. When I told her "I'm proud of you" she replied with "Thank you for being my sister." The bond between us is truly insuperable.

Rochon 9

It's a shame that some of the loveliest people dislike themselves so much because they're consumed by the negative aspects of their lives.

Cianciolo Week 12

My mom forced me to go to a church Thanksgiving dinner which ended up being more fun than I expected. But while sitting and eating I saw the Communion cups being filled and had an overwhelming urge to run up and drink every single one of them. What would they have done? Hold me back from doing Communion, or just let me drink them all?

Wiser XIII

A conversation after dinner:

Me, while eating a candy cane: What if walruses in the North Pole had candy canes for tusks
My mom: Then I guess they'd have a sweet tooth
My dad: That was so quick. She was so quick.

Kevin Brooks post XIII

That moment when a word from english class perfectly describes a presidential candidate. (The word was demagogue. Guess who.)

Hackley 13

• My worst vacation ever was to Tennessee when I was 8. We had a layover flight, and when our first plane got delayed we missed our second plane, but somehow our luggage made it onto the plane. We were stranded in the airport for eight hours and when we got to Tennessee our luggage had been shipped back to MA. On our way to the hotel we got lost in the mountains for six hours. Now my sister and I were young and annoying after all this travel, so my mom made us walk next to the car until a bear was in the road and we had to get back in for safety. My dad was really sick with pneumonia so my uncle took care of us. He nearly accidentally knocked me off the edge of a cliff. It was awful.

Gregg 11

The literature books they give us in English are such a waste.

Gregg 13

My sister recently mentioned the name of a character we made up when we were really young. He was a really gross cat named Aaron, and we used to draw pictures and write stories about him all the time. I had completely forgot about Aaron until she mentioned it and I suddenly got the most intense nostalgia. It's times like this that I realize that I actually appreciate my sister no matter how much we hated each other as kids. I actually miss her now that she's away at college.

Lor lor's post # *dun dun dunnnn* 13

I've always wanted to create my own language. Tons of sci fi and fantasy writers have created entire languages for the world of their stories, like Quenya from Lord of the Rings, the Na'vi language from Avatar, Klingon from Star Trek...I think it would be really cool to play with. If words are candy, then I want to be Willy Wonka.
(well, willy wonka is a tiny bit creepy, but you get my point)

Donaher's spooky post 13

A bug might have gotten caught in my car's heater because it smells like burning bugs sometimes when I drive. It went away eventually, so it's probably ash now.

UPDATE:
There's more smoke-smell and I think some stuff is coming out from under the hood. This might be some sort of metaphor for my life.

Cianciolo Week 13

Imagine that the earth is an ever-spinning eyeball of a much larger being. When we see the sky and the sun that is when we are on the side of the eyeball facing out of the being. The being sees the sun in the distance at the same time I see it, but someone on the opposite side of the world is seeing the inside of the being's head which is speckled with stars.

Waszak 13

We were driving past a river and there's a walkway with benches facing the water, but there's more benches facing the main road than the actual water. Why would they design more benches to be looking out to a loud busy road like that?

Kristen Post 13

Remember when a lucky penny on the ground was the best thing that had ever happened? Why do we ignore pennies now? Is this some kind of real-life symbol of lost innocence? Or is it just that pennies are worth nearly nothing and they don’t matter? Or is some kind of weird proof that no one is sentimental? Or that no one believes in luck? I’m confused about pennies.

O'Neal 13

Math is truly universal. Languages vary from place to place, but no matter where you go math still means suffering.

Sydney Kim Post 13

10 Uncomfortable Words

1) trickle
2) dribble
3) fleshy
4) moist
5) flap
6) chunky
7) perspiration
8) curd
9) creamy
10) daddy

Life can be uncomfortable, but you just have to deal with it and move on.

Rochon Post 13

The word "love" has lost it's meaning. When you tell someone you love them, love them with your entirety-unless you want them to go about believing that they don't deserve love.

Jain Lucky #13

"Don't look on your failures as signs of defeat, but as failure." - Michael Ni

Mathews 13

Today I was at my girlfriend’s house and her grandma was over. For whatever reason, we were looking through her older sister’s yearbook, and whenever there was an indian kid on the page, her grandma said “Look Manish! Indian.” Yes. That is what I am :^)

Nelson 13

I want to travel as much as I can later in life. I have learned so much about other countries and cultures in history and language courses over the years, but I have never actually been out of the country. I have this perception of the world, but who knows what it is actually like? It happens on a small scale when I go to places I don't know; I have all of these expectations about what it will look like and what will happen, but reality is completely different from what I imagined.

Madie 13

What happens when people run out of music? When every combination of words, chords, and notes has been strung together and already exists?

Madie 12

Detachment is often  a misinterpreted word. People commonly think it means owning nothing, but in reality it means nothing owns you.

Victoria Post 12

It is terrifying to me that I am going to take the SATs this Saturday. Something I have been dreading since the 6th grade, the summer days when my mom piled a bunch of SAT textbooks for me to work on between my two swim practices. I didn’t understand a single page of the textbook, and I just bathed and relished in the fact that the day was nowhere near. But the day is looming around the corner, and I have no idea how I am going to take it. It feels like the pressure of 5 years is now stacked upon my shoulders, and I feel as unprepared as ever, even though I actually understand every page of the workbooks sitting on my desk.

Reid 12

When someone zones out I wonder if it is because someone hyper focused on one idea and therefore everything else fades out or if their perception of reality becomes so general that they see everything and nothing at the same time?

White post 12

I enjoy tedious things that others would likely find boring. Putting stamps on envelopes, making copies, rolling cigarettes, (for my brother, not for me #saynototobacco.) The repetition soothes my weary mind.

White post 11

For the longest time I've had this idea in my mind for a story about a girl who goes time traveling into the future and befriends a girl from the present day and they form an unlikely and humorous friendship.

Garrett Post 12

Something that surprises me is the body's innate ability and instinctual tendency to heal itself. This is seen through bruises, broken bones, paper cuts, etc. But also through dreams. Dreams are the body's way of fixing itself, using the time to solve problems within the mind. Last night, after a rather long week, I had a dream I was running through grass along the ocean. My dog was running by my side. I just kept running and running, feeling more free and alive as it went by. Today I woke up feeling almost completely healed.

White post 10

Whoever entrusted me with the responsibility of being a "legal adult" should honestly rethink that decision because I don't know who the hell thought THAT was a good idea but clearly they were highly misinformed.

Christina Prato Post 12

Words mean nothing if actions show the complete opposite. If someone that you trust says something to you- then you believe them right? But if they act on the opposite of what they said then it takes a turn for the worst. Moral of the story: Actions speak way louder than words

Garrett Post 11

It’s weird when you walk through a city, and remember that all the buildings you look up to where once just in somebody’s imagination. It was once just some guy's idea that found themselves onto blueprints paper and were somehow built into real life. In that sense, walking through a city is synonymous to walking through a dream.

White post 9

I want to start writing down all the quotes I find written on bathroom stalls, desks, tables, etc; and make a book or some kind of poem out of them. What a story that would be.

Christina Prato Post 11

I have the deepest affection for intellectual conversations. The ability to just relax and talk. About love, life, everything and anything. It is always good not only for you but for your soul and well-being.

Christina Prato post 10

If you think about it, you could save so much money by just giving up one daily thing. For example, if I stop getting iced coffee every morning at Dunkin Donuts I could save $60 dollars every month which means in a year I would save up to $720 dollars. That is a lot of money to just spend at Dunkin Donuts. Think about money and how valuable it is because you can become rich.

Garrett Post 10

We just all arrived here on Earth. We opened our eyes one day and learned who we are. We all think we know what we’re doing in some way shape or form but in reality none of us do. We take ideas from others and think that’s the way to live - but no one knows how to live. Someone along the way said “The goal in life is to make money, buy a car, then die.” or “This is what you’re supposed to believe in” and some people said “yes that’s true!” and others said “wait a second no that’s wrong” and it somehow trickled down into our cultures and our parents and our own lives. And we think we know everything, we think there is a set plan, but there’s not. We opened our eyes one day, and now we’re just winging it.

Waszak 12

What would a world without time be like?

Christina Prato week 9

I'm 17 and I have to make a big life decision of what I want to be when I grow up when I can't even decide if I want coffee or hot chocolate in the morning.

Waszak 11

Sometimes dreams are weird because I had a dream I went to a college that really isn't for me and ended up loving it. I woke up and started to wonder if my subconscious is going against my conscious.

Garrett Post 9

I wish there a was a way you could hear what people were listening to through headphones.

Donaher week 12

I hope people realize that the more they disparage puns, the more puns come to replace the fallen. It's a punfortunate truth and you should just let it happen, [Name Redacted], you can't stop it.

Jain Post 12

I see people argue that the current young generation is too coddled, and that everyone is a "Special Snowflake". That we have never been denied anything, that we get participation trophies for everything. That whenever we are offended that others have to care. Apparently these people like to listen to the local minority and ignore most of the world that gets along fine. 

Waszak 9

The stress created when time is being crunched is enormous and can really bring out the worst in people.

Hackley 12

• The word crisp is the only word that starts in the back of your mouth moves to the front as you say it

Kristen Kim Post 12

A Brief Biography: A girl who floats by with her chin up and her teeth clenched, with dirt pounded into the soles of her shoes. Her bones are made of dust and her skin is pale in the moonlight. She is a modern tragedy.

Bergeron Post 12

A story idea that I had while working on a research paper - A college student begins working on a very important research project on a musician from the sixties. In doing so, she uncovers some interesting information about the musician's wife, his muse and the subject of a good deal of his songs. Through further research and traveling to the places he lived, the student begins to uncover the mystery. It turns out his "wife" wasn't his wife at all, simply a Petrarchan love whom he was madly enamored with from afar. The public simply believed she was his mysterious wife when in reality she barely knew him. The student's project eventually leads her to meet the musician and he tells her his twisted life story.

Wiser XI

A character named Solomon who is not so very wise.

Rochon 12

Your situation doesn't define you. The problems and unfortunate things that you think are shaping your entire life are simply just an outcome-not who you are as a person. You may not be depressed, but you have depression. It's all about perspective.

Wiser X

What if we could transfer our energy to other humans? Or our emotions? It would drain us, but rejuvenate them. What if someone kidnapped people exclusively to drain their positive energy? What if one person had depression, and so everyday their significant others drained themselves in order to make them happy, and the other person didn't even know so they just believed they were beginning to recover? What if someone drained themselves so fully to help another that they ended up destroying themselves?

Lex Luthor: 12

I often wonder if trees can talk but they refuse to because humans have destroyed so many of their kin. What if like cats they can understand us but refuse to acknowledge it.

Sydney Kim Post 12

The Haribo gummy bears are really good. But if I eat too many of them I start to feel nauseous.
Anything taken, eaten, or used in excess is dangerous. Moderation is key.
At least, that's what I try to tell myself as I finish the last gummy bear in the bag.

Wiser XII

In World War II, the Germans used to take picture frames and hang them crooked in houses, hiding grenades behind the frames and knowing the 'Muricans would not be able to resist straightening it. So when they went to straighten the frames...kaboom.

Lor Lor 6x2

One of my favorite things is to watch an airplane flying overhead and wonder who's on board, where they're going, and why. Maybe someone famous is up there. Maybe there's a scientist headed for a remote Pacific island for a research project. Maybe someone is up there who I'll meet in a few years. Maybe my soulmate is in that plane, sailing with the clouds.

O'Neal 12

We Should Capitalize Every Word Because Every Word Is Special And Important Even If It's Not First.

Gregg 12

An Owen Wilson romantic comedy where he tries to hit on a woman and hilariously says the wrong thing. What a funny new idea!

Mathews 12

I used to have this blue sweater last year. It was a really bold blue. My friend once called it “Sonic Blue” and after that I started wearing it really often. I thought it was the coolest thing around, until I accidentally left it in the drying machine and it shrunk. Now my brother gets to wear my super cool Sonic sweater.

Nelson Post 12

You know you live on a farm when getting chased by a flock of menacing chickens is a daily struggle.

Nelson Post 11

Whenever I drive by a police car, I can feel my heart stop for a second, even though I am doing nothing wrong. This should not happen, because the police are out there to keep us safe. I think movies and media too often mock police or make them seem evil, which is not the case.

Cianciolo: Week 11

I have a vivid memory of riding an elephant even though my parents insist I never have. In my dream I was riding an elephant which became a horse, so I woke up and asked my parents if I ever rode a horse as a child, which I apparently did when I wasn't even one, so it was probably a horse, and not an elephant.

Cianciolo: Week 10

It might be a nice change to be the prey sometime. To be hunted down just to feel what it is like. We didn't really get to the top of the food chain, we just kind of got out of it.

Cianciolo Week 9

People tend to measure the world in terms of their height or max reach. As a kid I could never touch the lowest branch of the tree in my front yard.  I had always seen that height as some ever increasing height that I would never reach. As I got older the branch seemed to raise at the same rate as I was growing. As a teenager I have spent most of my time in my room or with my friends, so I never am in my front yard. The other day I let my dog out in the front yard and the branch was at my chest. That infinite height I saw as a kid is now shorter than I am. Growing up is terribly depressing sometimes.

Madie 11

When people say "I love you" or "I hate you" why do we take it so personally? They are telling us about themselves. "I love you" is a phrase we so often associate with ourselves as if by being told those 3 words tells us we are worthy, but in reality when someone says that they love you, it's a statement about them not you.

Brooks Post 9

The media will sometimes ask questions literally designed to damage your reputation.. Why?