Li Week 2

Sorrowful spies

Wright Week 2

"You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That's what scares you most."  - Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
"Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons." - Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

Vuilleumier Week 2

"Each day means a new 24 hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time [...] You try to walk in the light"
-Day, from Legend by Marie Lu

MacKenzie Week 2

We have faith that the ones we've lost will get into Heaven, praying that their souls meet our Maker and not our destroyer. We hope that they have safe travels from one life to the next, putting more stock into where they will end up than what they've left behind. But then we shove them into a box, sealing them off from the world and burying them in the ground, so far away from the sky we want them to reach.

Teddy Week 2

I was so mesmerized by the moon this week. The way it glowed, and how dark clouds passed in front of it in patchy waves. I looked up at it through the window and forgot where I was. I could have sat there on the kitchen floor staring at it for hours.

Morton Week 2

"There's only one thing that can stop a ghost: Mexican plastic." - Donovan, age 6

Fridrich Week 2

Aunt Kelly’s Homemade Root Beer(™) tastes like yeast and poor decisions. Mostly yeast.

Madison week 2

Will I at least get reception in hell?

cote week 1

i wish i remembered the sound of your heartbeat

Ross WEEK 2

What if we straightened our eye lashes like how we straightened our hair?

Emma Paulauskas Week 2

I think about this way too often and it's really annoying to think about and really hard to explain.... What if we both called a certain color red but your "red" was my blue and my red was your purple and we just never knew. All of us could be seeing the world in totally different colors but we all have a common name for the different colors. Also I saw something on twitter the other day that said that you can't imagine a new color.

Dedivya Week 1

talking pencils

Emma Paulauskas Week 1

The past few weeks I have been looking through my dad's old pictures and belongings from his childhood home. I saw how happy it made him to see all of these pictures and memories after not seeing them for literal decades. This made me want to take as many pictures and make as many memories as I possibly could to look back on later in life.

Golash_Week One

"In your most nightmarish fever dreams"

I came up with this line while lying in my bed, sick. I had just woken up and I was trying to remember the dream I just had when this line popped into my head. 

Teddy Week 1

I saw my friend who never shows emotion cry multiple times in one night... from happiness. He hugged me twice, which is two more times than he has ever hugged me. It was weird. For the first time in all the 6 years I've known him, I didn't feel intimidated by him.

Kay Week 1

we were watching a video in public speaking and the guy said "experience is what you get when you dont get what you wanted" and i can really relate bc ive failed a lot and gotten mad but i was getting experience and im starting to realize that now

Ciara Week One

The idea occurred to me at 8:57 a.m. on January 30th while I let my mind wander (in other words, run 30 km/s). A vague concept I had considered in the first week of freshman year upon being reminded that vikings actually discovered America, and centuries before Columbus was even born, resurfaced from the recess of my conscious. The traces of indications that Slavic languages had influence on those of Native Americans' came to mind, and the idea that logically speaking offspring of vikings and natives would be born occurred as well. Instantly, the Ahayuta (twin warrior gods of Zuni mythology) popped up, though it occurred to me that the Zuni occupied a region in New Mexico, and would not be at all logically proximal to the locations (namely, New England and Canadian coasts) that vikings explored primarily. Achiyalabopa (another Native American deity; somewhat an equivalent to the Japanese Karasu no Tengu) seemed more fitting to the images that came to mind of a protagonist. I happened to see the word halberd in whatever I was reading, and I automatically adopted that as the protagonist's weapon of choice, per se; (you can't write a story about vikings and/or Native Americans and not have awesome weaponry). The Nordic 'Niidhog' (a legendary black dragon) additionally came to mind. Somehow I'd like to work this together to create a story!

Week 1

Story telling can be done in a song, writing, movies, tv, or a small group of friends at a campfire or sleepover. I love to tell and hear stories and the passion and laughter, and the emotions that come with it.

MacKenzie Week 1

We as humans are poignantly aware of the state of the human condition and yet it continues to grow darker and we do nothing to stop it.

Schroeder Week 1

Making sauerkraut  is fun, but it stings like crazy if your hands are dry.

Clay Week 1

I was driving home on the highway at night and the light from my headlights illuminated a pole on the side of the road oddly. It looked like the pole bent and warped for a second or two, then returned to its normal state. Light can really manipulate the way we see things. Light is the only way we see things.

Week 1

In my head was an amorphous gale of things to say, but after the storm had run its course only teardrops filled the page.

Madison Week 1

"Hey do you have a pencil?" "No, but you know what I do have?" "What?" "Spunk." "I hate you."

Li Week 1

Rusty suit of armor in a display case

Week 1

is this a draft or is there a draft?

Vuilleumier Week 1

We make our own stars in the light of the bridges and buildings set against a pure black sky. Clouds, man-made or natural, block real stars from shining through.

Morton Week 1

The idea of the angels smiting unspecified political figures brings me cathartic pleasure.

Overington Week 1

I am a slab of meat

Cut from another

And another

Will be cut from me

Fridrich Week 1

Ever since my life changed, a single quote has been floating around in my head.

“There’s a strange ingenuity gained from the world blowing up in your face.”

Ross Week 1

"I know it is against your morals to do anything helpful, but could you please help me right now"
- My mom