By Cyra Rahman, TIWP Student It was a normal day. I walked back from science class, my last class of the day, to my room. I live at a boarding school in Wales where they teach magic and how to defend yourself from demons. “Andromeda!” a high pitched voice belonging to an annoying person calls […]
The Locked Door (an excerpt)
By Cyra Rahman, TIWP Student Aurelia I am sitting in the church’s pews, almost asleep. I pull my phone out of my purse and turn on some random kpop song. My purse is annoyingly big, I thought it would be smaller. Well, at least I can put a lot of random stuff in it and […]
The Woman
By Lilian St. Clair-Foster, TIWP Student Who’s that woman in the photo?I gulp as I look down at the paper in front of me.What should have been a selfie of me with my first house was photobombed by a lady in blue standing in the room that’s soon to be mine.I tense, falling to my […]
The Moon
By Lilian St. Clair-Foster, TIWP Student I sit. My legs dangling over the branch I’m perched on as I wait,wait for the clock to strike time. I’ve always loved sunsets, the hot golden yellow of the sun melting away to seafoam blues and royal purples, looking like paint draped down a canvas.Like heaven at earth’s […]
My Wife
By Lilian St. Clair-Foster, TIWP Student I walk.My high heeled boots black in color, perfectly describing my current mood as I sway with each step towards the graveyard. My long tan trench coat is dirty and rough against my skin as I cough, my lungs ringing like a sponge as they try to reject the […]
Please, Don’t
By Lilian St. Clair-Foster, TIWP Student I see the phrase “Please, don’t be in love with someone else” a lot.And it’s never resonated with me,But yet I still sing it in each song I find it in,each poem that holds it,and think about it in most childhood memories with such vigor you would have thought […]
Parade
By Lilian St. Clair-Foster, TIWP Student Why am I here?No, really, why?I have nothing to gain from this except pain.And yet, I’m always back. Back here.Is it really that amusing?To watch me fall apart?Does it really entertain you that much?To watch me stutter and fall, trying desperately to fit together two pieces of a puzzle […]
The Snake
By Lilian St.Clair-Foster, TIWP Student A sleek body glides through the clear water of the river, its fur the color of fermented coffee beans and freshly potted soil. A twig snaps to the left of the water, The force of a heavy weight the cause of its distortion as the ferret-like creature dives under the […]
Avicta (An Excerpt)
By Scarlett “DB” Mosher, TIWP Alumni What are you hungry for? Avicta couldn’t shake the fool’s words from her head. Hoping that sleep would calm her nerves, she’d taken to bed earlier than usual. The moon hadn’t even passed the middle of the sky before she stumbled into her tent. She thrust herself into her […]
Lagging
By Dawn Lui, TIWP Student PrologueA red light flickered in the distance. The boy standing by rushed toward the only source of light in the infinite darkness. “No!” Another figure appeared next to the boy and grabbed his arm. “I have to, Crystella! Let me go!” He snapped his arm away from Crystella’s grasp and […]
