By Leela Ganguly I entered the gate, the dim lights flickering around me and colorful banners hanging from large signs. Kids were shouting happily, sticky messes dribbling down their shirts. Roller coasters sped down tracks, suspended in midair for seconds. Venders cried out for customers and purchasers responded by overwhelming the tents. Families desperately tried […]
Camp
By Zara Quiter, TIWP student Camp isn’t a place.School is a place.The grocery store is, too. Camp is a world.It’s its own little planet, nestled among mountains, a sanctuary for the birds and trees, the bears and bees. Camp is a home.Cabins, lining fields of trees with no electricity, bathrooms with showers to get clean, […]
June 24, 2022
By Caroline Hesby, TIWP Student yesterday I had a conversation with a friend who’s trying to get birth control. I stood next to her in line at a counter-service restaurant, exchanging the side-effect horror stories that have passed by our ears, deciding between haunting hormonal changes or unwanted pregnancies, bearing the weight of choosing a […]
Heart In My Hands
By Kayli Harley, TIWP Student My heart has hands – hands I have to keep from reaching for things. Wherever I go, they extend welcomes to strangers, places, feelings. Anything that could be love. Anything that could mean something. I can’t stop their curious, child-like fingers from yearning to clutch onto anything that offers the […]
Proof
By Emma Stokes, TIWP Student I don’t have to say a word and neither does she. Her eyes sparkle like the stars that we watch together and I understand. Every sparkle means something more complex than the spider webs that she’s so afraid of and yet often runs into but each sparkle means the same […]
Crushed
By Hazel Smith, TIWP Student watch as i crumblein pieces for a smile shifting and twistingi will never be enough vacant planetsboundaries dispelled arms and lipseyes and legs shallow conversationfading sparks crushed.
Why?
By Hazel Smith, TIWP Student up and down the streettorn jeansnothing quite as sweetlove-drunk teens the day you left meyour eyes sparkled in the sunlightno one will ever be as prettysomeday i’ll be alright teetering on the edge of nothingfalling and fallingcrushing and crushingyour voice is enthralling blasting all my favorite songsmake the bad feelings […]
And to Reap the Glory
By Olivia Tiffin, TIWP Student The sky was bright and pale unstained blue. Clouds clear in splotches of white against the blue in which kept our feet against the rubble paved to make sidewalks and allies. And yet the azure felt sick to this painted, unblemished sky. Trees swayed along a cobble path brim, flowers, […]
The 5th Emperor of Rome
By Olivia Tiffin, TIWP Student A fragile flame flickered as the walls set ablaze.And he smiled.A cruel, distasteful, bitter smile.He loved his city. His empire.And yet he loved it more when its buildings and walls smoldered, lit by the red and golden flames.And as he stood over it, a tune swayed the burning air from […]
The Wall: Dismantling the Patriarchy
By Kayli Harley, TIWP Student Log One: I have discovered a wall. It stretches to my left and my right like reflections in a mirror. Like ebbing, black adamant, it draws light into an unknown embrace. I advance toward it, and just as I am about to reach for it, to graze my fingertips along […]
The Intuitive Voice 