By Audrey Harris, TIWP Student I’m not sure you would know my name. I wish you would. I wish everyone would know my story, would hear whispers of my deeds in the wind, and would acknowledge what I stood for. But I know that that is just wishful thinking. I cannot change the actions of […]

*Inspired by popular slang terms found in the archives of the 1891 American Slang Dictionary. By KF, TIWP Student I met the most infuriating man the other day. I’m not talking looks. I’m speaking of his no good, arrogant, painful, and utterly boring personality. As my sister would say, he is a man that is […]

By Katelyn Forschler, TIWP Student My legs are sore from running. I haven’t slept or ate in days. I don’t even know what day it is. The city has grown further into the distance. A small speck of light illuminates its existence. Now, the only thing around me is sweeping trees, shouting owls, and the […]

By Alexa Riseman, TIWP Student The light shined brighter then ever as Fay stared, mesmerized. “What are you?” she whispered. “What do you want with me?” It had all started three days ago. After a long and exhausting day, 14-year-old Fay Johnson wanted nothing but to curl up in her bed and fall asleep. She […]

By Audrey Harris, TIWP Student I guess I didn’t mean to. Didn’t mean to do it. But how could I really say that I did mean to? That would make me a bad person. But how much worse can I get? I’m in this situation so I must already be unfavorable compared to most. Unfavorable […]

By Audrey Harris, TIWP Student “What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?” — Ursula K. Le Guin Sleep can help. I like sleeping. But I don’t like my bed. I don’t remember why. Should I like my bed? Should I sleep? But where would I sleep? In my bed. But I […]

By Jessy Wallach, TIWP Student There is a girl living at the bottom of the village well. There is a girl flickering in the fluorescent light of the metropolitan train station. There is a wrist bone buried in the dog house and a hair caught in the hairline fractures of every gum-spotted inner city sidewalk. […]

By Jessy Wallach, TIWP Student It was July, warm, a few days too late for a Virginia Woolf novel, but we could still feel its residue on us like stardust. Red white and blue flags, red faces of uncles in tight blue polo shirts that strained to hide their barrelled bellies, white wine poured too […]

By Lucy Brock, TIWP Student Prologue I scan the empty roads. Nothing but the sound of my footsteps and the whistling of the trees fill the air. It is an unnerving feeling, when you go from a bustling city to the empty roads of a deserted town. I had tried to leave, to leave the […]

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