By Leighton Tanaka, TIWP Student The end of a civilization among the many galaxies. We stand at the tail end of infinity. When the stars are but a memory, and the sky is nothing but a void of absence. I could not describe its color, for it was not black, but gone. Simply missing were […]

By Leighton Tanaka, TIWP Student I am a home. I have housed thousands of people. Within these walls that have been torn down and rebuilt time and time again. Walls that have been repainted a thousand different hues and touched by a thousand different hands. I have witnessed many families come and go, I have […]

By Leighton Tanaka, TIWP Student She sat outside on the cold asphalt, hugging her knees. She cried, and I cried too. I wondered how humans, born to be kind but deteriorating as they developed, were able to do this. Great rains fell from above, the world grieved the colossal loss of a thousand different lives. […]

By Leighton Tanaka, TIWP Student The smell of dinner awaiting Nico half finished tempted her. But she restrained herself under the accusing gaze of her sister, Winter. She scowled but obeyed, knowing full well what it meant to start early. The table sat empty but set, waiting for the overflowing portions of her mothers food. […]

By Maya Petzoldt, TIWP student “Hey- HEY!” You hear something- like repetitive snapping, and slowly crack open your eyes. As you blink the first thing you focus on is what is far above you. It’s dark, and reddish, like black rust. But then you focus on what is much closer, the tan hand snapping their […]

By Riley Faust, TIWP Student The Whispering Woods were strangely quiet. Soft, dewy grass blanketed the forest floor and silenced my footsteps. Rays of sunlight passed through the rough branches of trees, raining down light. It wasn’t warm, but rather a comfortable cold, a temperature that felt fitting among the dark, velvety bark of the […]

By Sol Dente, TIWP Student Down the hill and right a ways from my house lies a rock. I cannot tell you its size or its shape, nor what colors the sun choses to paint it as when it sinks below the waterline or how it feels to run a calloused fingertip over its bumps […]

By Ava Skidgel, TIWP Student The train doors rushed open and busy feet stepped across the crack that separated the station’s city floor and the train. Above me, a sign that flashed “Crosby” indicated the train’s whereabouts. My head was perched downwards and I was observing the passing feet that trekked and treaded through the […]

By Ellis Murphy, TIWP Student I sit in the waiting room. The clock ticks, the pendulum swings. I look back at how I got here. At the series of events that led to this moment. The clock ticks, the pendulum swings. I remember the people chasing me. The woman in the alley. “Come with me […]

By Atlas Wilson, TIWP Student “There’s something behind you.” That was the last thing I heard my father say. That day still haunts me. The feeling of being shoved under water. It whispering in low tones to let it in. And in that moment, I realized, the end had begun. Running. The loud sound of […]