Helen

By Jessy Wallach, TIWP Student Helen remembers what it was like to be a child. Peaceful, mostly. Calm. There was a pasture out behind the palace where she and her sister would play, and a clear pond where she could splash her feet or catch minnows. Sometimes she’d stare into it to see herself staring […]

Medusa

By Jessy Wallach, TIWP Student No one ever remembers what color her eyes were, just that you shouldn’t meet them, that you needed to look away, fast. Close your eyes, or she’ll turn you to stone. She never wanted to turn them to stone, only maybe she did. Maybe she was tired of them laughing […]

Wild Nights

By Viviana Sanchez, TIWP Student Wild nights!These strange delightsSo dark and scarlet in our embraceIn our candle lightBurning in ours eyes which 1000 of your tears cannot extinguishWe wear lace in the dead of nightSewn from a 1000 doe lashesLocked ashed fingers because we fear togetherOut the door and past the sea oh’ the sea, […]

Je Te Pardonne

By Kea Yoshinaka, TIWP Student I am going to let go of my hatred for you.I am going to release the way you took hold of my mind so early and slowly scrambled it into indecipherable pieces. I no longer despise you for changing the way you didand the choices you made along the way that […]

Eastward Sun

By Kayli Harley, TIWP Student She’d spent her life looking eastward,turning her face toward the sunin something like a prayer. Perhaps she was begging,or maybe she simply sought a moment of warmth and silencein a world blanketed in frigid chaos.  Either way, she looked to the sunlightto fill something in herthat has always seemed empty. The sensation of the […]

The Forest

By Aly Kirke, TIWP Student I feel the moss beneath my feet. Between my toes. It’s squishy. Soft. Cool like the pillow I turn over as I fall asleep. I’m alone, but I’m not lonely. The trees whisper me secrets in the wind. I feel like I belong, like the trees and the stars are […]

Leaping Faith

By Noah Orosco, TIWP Student I know you’ve been struggling, trying to find a little bit of emotion.Lately you’ve been thinking, I hope you hear the words through all the commotion.Let me light the dark path that seems to sway your sight.Your future can be bright, you just need new insight.I promise you this thundering […]

Like Me, Like You

By Tania Kiany, TIWP Student Chapter one Once upon a time, when nobody was someone, a girl was born. Her name is Cleo, Cleo Wonder. And when she turned ten she started believing anyone, yes anyone, is SOMEONE. 5 YEARS LATER……………………….. Cleo is 15, and has made many friends. She is in high school and […]

The Garden

By Maya Petzoldt, TIWP Student “Why do you have a secret compartment underneath your bed?”“Why do I have a what?”Sophia looked up from her place on my bed to stare at me. She quickly sat straight up when she noticed that I was holding her mattress up and staring down at the empty space below […]

What’s Hiding?

By Maya Petzoldt, TIWP Student A drake hides in your jewelry box,And fae in your garden.Mermaids sneak within your pipes,And imps within your walls.Centaurs walk your halls,And vampires fly through your attic.Werewolves live outside your window,And witches camp outside your doors.Gods live under your bed,And demons have made a home in your floors.But reality has […]