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Spring/Summer 2022 Cover Art by: Vera Baffour Table of Contents Writing Art Editor's Note ​ 0 Blair Bowers and Brendan Nurczyk ​ The creased polaroid my grandmother keeps in her wallet 7:30AM 1 Kota Locklear England Townsend I Left my Heart in the Knot of a Weeping Willow Tree Off 2 Peyton Pitts Jadalyn Gubat The Willful Pisgah 3 Nayra McMahan Audrey Lendvay ​ my childhood friends 4 ​ Raymond Chen For Medusa El Tiburón 5 Mia Parola Natalie Holden motherland My Inner Brewing Conflicts 6 Evangelina Ariana Thornton Alana Guifarro Mountaintop Soho 7 Itay Frenkel Ivory Funari My mother's letters to my father. Dreamscape Randos 8 Chloe Pancho Vera Baffour ​ Innocent Until Educated 9 ​ England Townsend Deep in Georgia Blackout 10 Autumn Hill Micayla Latson Doll Dancer 11 Zarria Belizaire Reagan Hoogesteger Recursions Wasting Time 12 Nolan Lee Elizaveta Kalacheva The Last Rite LORD BABA (GOLDEN PRIDE) 13 Giovani Jacques Taylor Ekern Anthem Silhouette 14 Brendan Nurczyk Lan Turner Iridescence for the Soul Lucky Numbers 15 Hallie Xu Christopher Thomas My Body, the Sea/Mi Cuerpo, el Mar The Gain and Loss in Transformation 16 Raquel Silberman Alyssa Giraud icarus & her lover A Challenge Approaches 17 Eva Chen Alyssa Giraud Midnight Skin Ave Maria 18 Alexander Sayette Vera Baffour Oliver A Mother's Love 19 Esmé DeVries Chloe Robertson ​ An Evening to Remember 20 ​ Audrey Lendvay Aschnakä ​ 21 Niveah Glover ​ A Tribute to Mitski’s “Class of 2013” Tangled in Transformation 22 Hollis Ackiss Camille Faustino the girl in the pool has all her clothes on I Sea Trash 23 Ali Ximines Christian Silva The Orange Tree Across the Street Groceries 24 Sarah Ermold Camille Faustino The Bird dovetail 25 Blair Bowers Sachiko Rivamoute Between the Eyes Commensalism 26 Maeve Coughlin Arabella Riefler Firstborn Late 27 Satori McCormick Jadalyn Gubat ​ Who's Point of View 28 ​ Solara Cotton to she who fights the snow Afternoon Painting 29 Sarah Sun Zoe Turner Rose-Colored Glasses Blooming Petals 30 Mackenzie Rud Bria Mcclary the summer you learned to bike Marine Karma 31 Eva Chen Grace Kim Spring/Summer 2022 Staff Blair Bowers Brendan Nurczyk Zarria Belizaire Nia Moneyhun Parker Sheppard Lanina Herndon Anna Smith Nayra McMahan Bonny Bruzos Sage Whitecotton Kaysyn Jones Leila Warner Editor-in-Chief Junior Editor-in-Chief Poetry Editor Prose Editor Art Director Junior Art Director Associate Art Director Managing Editor Junior Managing Editor Social Marketing Editor Associate Marketing Editor Associate Marketing Editor

Fall/Winter 2022 Cover Art: The Photographer V2 by Mary Lefleur Table of Contents Connect to "TOC Art Title" Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC Art Title" Button Editor's Note Brendan Nurczyk & Emma Klopfer & Niveah Glover Small Title Small Title Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" 0 Connect to "TOC Art Title" Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC Art Title" Button Before I was Mint The Photographer V2 Abigail Griffin Small Title Mary Lefluer Small Title Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" 1 Connect to "TOC Art Title" Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC Art Title" Button Perched Nostalgia Annika Gangopadhyay Small Title Maria Bezverkh Small Title Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" 2 Connect to "TOC Art Title" Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC Art Title" Button Prom Dress Narcissism Mackenzie Shaner Small Title Elanee Viray Small 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Camille Faustino Small Title Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" 19 Connect to "TOC Art Title" Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC Art Title" Button Roadkill Ant Town Marlo Herndon Small Title Jeremy Hall Small Title Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" 20 Connect to "TOC Art Title" Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC Art Title" Button We Call it Our Mother Tongue Life in a Shadow Saria Abedin Small Title Isabelle Woods Small Title Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" 21 Connect to "TOC Art Title" Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC Art Title" Button It is Life Branching Out Ava Devenitch Small Title Micayla Latson Small Title Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" 22 Connect to "TOC Art Title" Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC Art Title" Button ​ We Still Wait in the Water Small Title 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Fall/Winter 2021 Cover Art: Ephemeral by Jayci Bryant Table of Contents Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC Art Title" Button Editor's Note Blair Bowers and Brendan Nurczyk Editor's Note 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000003 Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" 0 Gravity Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC Art Title" Button Brown Fruit Gravity Autumn Hill Brown Fruit Nishka Mirchandani 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000002 Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" 1 Lily Pond Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC Art Title" Button St. John Lily Pond Kathryn Moore St. John Kadynce Singer 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001 Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" 2 Eye Can See Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC Art Title" Button Allegory Deferred Eye Can See Lynn Kong allegory deferred Adrian Gibson 8369316c-3922-48ab-afd4-a7f4470baf45 Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" 3 Coming Apart at the Seams Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC Art Title" Button The Weight is Worth It Coming Apart at the Seams An Lin Hunt-Babcock The Weight is Worth It Audrey Lendvay a00f936e-1e60-441a-be88-713de7174eff Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" 4 Dysmorphia Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC Art Title" Button GAIA Dysmorphia Lynn Kong GAIA LaBrenda Bell 244b5e6c-812d-4eb2-bf1c-edd3f530b234 Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" 5 My Tears are the Ocean and the Weight of them drags me Down Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC Art Title" Button Sea of Stars My Tears are the Ocean and the Weight of them drags me Down Sam Howell Sea of Stars Deshea Reed 326b340e-bd96-45cd-96db-4e58c0253b22 Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" 6 Can I Keep Them? 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Spring/Summer 2023 Cover Art: Elysion by Elanee Viray Table of Contents Connect to "TOC Art Title" Editor's Note ​ Button Editor's Note ​ 0 Brendan Nurczyk, Emma Klopfer, Niveah Glover Small Title ​ Small Title Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" Connect to "TOC Art Title" ​ Mango Heart Button ​ Mango Heart 1 ​ Small Title Camille Faustino Small Title Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" Connect to "TOC Art Title" Elegy for Big Talbot State Park Captured Memory Button Elegy for Big Talbot State Park Captured Memory 2 Brendan Nurczyk Small Title Kaleigh Simmons Small Title Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" Connect to "TOC Art Title" Her name A Past Memory Button Her name A Past Memory 3 Chloe Park Small Title Maria Bezverkh Small Title Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" Connect to "TOC Art Title" ​ My HAIRitage Button ​ My HAIRitage 4 ​ Small Title Nyriel Sarures Small Title Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" Connect to "TOC Art Title" to you, the sea Il fiore Button to you, the sea Il fiore 5 Mia Yen Small Title Samantha Criscuolo Small Title Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" Connect to "TOC Art Title" A Night Swimmer Depleting Vehemence Button A Night Swimmer Depleting Vehemence 6 Esme DeVries Small Title McClain Allen Small Title Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" Connect to "TOC Art Title" Last Call at the Yellow Bird Man With the Hat Button Last Call at the Yellow Bird Man With the Hat 7 Lauren Underberg Small Title Bria McClary Small Title Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" Connect to "TOC Art Title" thoughts at longhorn Sins of the mother Button thoughts at longhorn Sins of the mother 8 Nico Johnson Small Title Marshall Shane Small Title Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" Connect to "TOC Art Title" Ars Artis Lover of Chess Button Ars Artis Lover of Chess 9 Emma Klopfer Small Title Liza Kalacheva Small Title Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" Connect to "TOC Art Title" Afterwards Elysion Button Afterwards Elysion 10 Daria Krol Small Title Elanee Viray Small Title Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" Connect to "TOC Art Title" Where I'm From Bantu Button Where I'm From Bantu 11 Giovanni Jacques Small Title Nyriel Saures Small Title Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" Connect to "TOC Art Title" now, with a son Mother Button now, with a son Mother 12 Sam Kats Small Title Ronni Ochoa Small Title Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" Connect to "TOC Art Title" To Be Home Again Instead of On This Free Soil Tighten Up Button To Be Home Again Instead of On This Free Soil Tighten Up 13 Sarah Gozar Small Title Micayla Latson Small Title Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" Connect to "TOC Art Title" ​ Sunday Button ​ Sunday 14 ​ Small Title Faith Spicer Small Title Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" Connect to "TOC Art Title" Temporal Displacement Puzzle Man Button Temporal Displacement Puzzle Man 15 Liang Jingyi Small Title Nishchay Jain Small Title Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" Connect to "TOC Art Title" Night Painting Journey Towards Self-Discovery Button Night Painting Journey Towards Self-Discovery 16 William Du Small Title Kenzie Kurdys Small Title Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" Connect to "TOC Art Title" Lucky Money ​ Button Lucky Money ​ 17 Lauren Underberg Small Title ​ Small Title Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST" Connect to "TOC Art Title" Beloved Omen Narcissus Button Beloved Omen Narcissus 18 Emerson Flanagan Small Title Liza Kalacheva Small Title Small Title Connect to "TOC Title" Connect to "TOC AUTHOR" Connect to "TOC ARTIST"

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Spring/Summer 2021 Cover Art: Entrapment by Jillian Atwood TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Contents Table of Contents Writing Visual Art Editor's Note ​ Button Editor's Note ​ Zoe Lathey & Blair Bowers ​ Connect to "TOC Title" Zoe Lathey & Blair Bowers ​ Read Language, ​ Button Language, ​ Summer Carrier ​ Connect to "TOC Title" Summer Carrier ​ Read Salmon Contortionist Button Salmon Contortionist Sophia Rose Smith Rowan Blankemeyer Connect to "TOC Title" Sophia Rose Smith Rowan Blankemeyer Read My Mother's Spirits Mother and Child Button My Mother's Spirits Mother and Child Tuesday Locklear Emily Nguyen Connect to "TOC Title" Tuesday Locklear Emily Nguyen Read Braids Abyss of Gold Button Braids Abyss of Gold Mackenzie Shaner Joshua Hein Connect to "TOC Title" Mackenzie Shaner Joshua Hein Read Poemgranate Brazen Button Poemgranate Brazen Autumn Hill Hasina Lilley Connect to "TOC Title" Autumn Hill Hasina Lilley Read Truth in Bitterness... Twirler/Biter/Picker Triptych Button Truth in Bitterness... Twirler/Biter/Picker Triptych Josselyn Ortiz Rachel Brown Connect to "TOC Title" Josselyn Ortiz Rachel Brown Read ​ Nomos (The Law) Button ​ Nomos (The Law) ​ Ninah Gibson Connect to "TOC Title" ​ Ninah Gibson Read Animals and Social Trash Clawing at My Dread Button Animals and Social Trash Clawing at My Dread Kevin Kraft Joshua Luke Rogers Connect to "TOC Title" Kevin Kraft Joshua Luke Rogers Read Toxic Lover Boy Button Toxic Lover Boy Emily Khym Isaac Riley Connect to "TOC Title" Emily Khym Isaac Riley Read Microaggressions Inner Truth Button Microaggressions Inner Truth Trinity Jones Trinity Cohen Connect to "TOC Title" Trinity Jones Trinity Cohen Read Depth to my Body Sorrowful Reflection Button Depth to my Body Sorrowful Reflection Mia Parola Hasina Lilley Connect to "TOC Title" Mia Parola Hasina Lilley Read Jesus in a Tie Dye Shirt Word Vomit Button Jesus in a Tie Dye Shirt Word Vomit Skye O'Toole Isabela Mendez Connect to "TOC Title" Skye O'Toole Isabela Mendez Read We Stopped for Daily's Mirage and Menagerie Button We Stopped for Daily's Mirage and Menagerie Blair Bowers Rowan Blankemeyer Connect to "TOC Title" Blair Bowers Rowan Blankemeyer Read Handcrafting a Predictable... The Peace of Pre-Quarantine Button Handcrafting a Predictable... The Peace of Pre-Quarantine Anthony Bernando Kyra Lai Connect to "TOC Title" Anthony Bernando Kyra Lai Read Hilltop Timekeeper Trip to Nowhere Button Hilltop Timekeeper Trip to Nowhere Toko Hata Zhanna Marzan Connect to "TOC Title" Toko Hata Zhanna Marzan Read ​ The Shepherd Button ​ The Shepherd ​ Rachel Brown Connect to "TOC Title" ​ Rachel Brown Read Guardians In Theory Button Guardians In Theory Sarah Ermold Julienne Masopust Connect to "TOC Title" Sarah Ermold Julienne Masopust Read Black Walnut Dead to the World Button Black Walnut Dead to the World Eli Mears Jillian Atwood Connect to "TOC Title" Eli Mears Jillian Atwood Read Pray Imitation Smile Button Pray Imitation Smile Christine Xu Hasina Lilley Connect to "TOC Title" Christine Xu Hasina Lilley Read The Fish False Prophet Button The Fish False Prophet Kaysyn Jones Vera Caldwell Connect to "TOC Title" Kaysyn Jones Vera Caldwell Read Spring/Summer 2021 Staff Zoe Lathey Blair Bowers Hannah Bardhi Sheldon White Blake Molenaar Parker Sheppard La'Mirakle Price Nayra McMahan Sage Whitecotton Arry Pender Editor-in-Chief Junior Editor-in-Chief Poetry Editor Prose Editor Art Director Junior Art Director Managing Editor Junior Managing Editor Social Media Editor Associate Editor ​

Middle School Writing Contest Élan celebrates the work of students between 6th and 8th grades in our annual Middle School Writing Contest. Learn how to compete We Still Have a Heart in Ourselves Indie Pascal 1st Place View More Our Cafeteria Dimitria Banov Russo Honorable Mention View More Oblivion Greta Reis 2nd Place View More No Fresh Air Ana Rosenthal Honorable Mention View More The Blue and Yellow Lila Hartley 3rd Place View More 2022 on your name Cloris Shi 1st Place View More We Just Want to be Loved Riayn Smith Honorable Mention View More Dear Linh Kate Kim 2nd Place View More Blank Page Cecelia Richardson Honorable Mention View More How Lucky we Are Meredith Anglin 3rd Place View More 2021 Grief Janna Tannous 1st Place View More Untitled John Walker 3rd Place Tie View More Questions of Youth Erion P. Sanders 2nd Place View More The Roaring Himalayas Rehan Sheikh 3rd Place Tie View More 2020 2019 Fading Marlo Herndon 1st Place Read Toby Georgia Witt Honorable Mention Read The Curious Murder of Lilliane Baldwin Hannah G. Klenck 2nd Place Read Becoming One Amelia Elder Honorable Mention Read The Castle Isabella Bolger 3rd Place Read Fading Marlo Herndon 1st Place View More Toby Georgia Witt Honorable Mention View More The Curious Murder of Lilliane Baldwin Hannah G. Klenck 2nd Place View More Becoming One Amelia Elder Honorable Mention View More The Castle Isabella Bolger 3rd Place View More

The Burning Light of the Clock Jamari Weaver Time, my old friend turned foe, Once a blank canvas I was free to paint my memories on, Now sand slipping through my fingers, When youth clouded my senses, The sprint towards the glowing light of an illuminated future started a fire, Flames burned me with ambition and passion, Leaving me with the scars of who I was, View clears with age, Lights become flashy advertisements hiding behind a unspoken cruel truth, Then comes the turn around, Bombarded with emotion in an unconscious moment of reflection, The realization the run has been in the wrong direction your whole life, Fire now ash, Memories become priceless, Forgotten thoughts a sudden haven for rapture, What was blurs, The truths I once knew become unclear, You may attempt back to the ignorant paradise of the past , But the burden of your knowledge replaces the once bliss of naivety, My essence withers with the exit of those play filled park days, The tune of my existence, Once a new classical piece of slow progression, Now an aged chaos of wrong notes and stressed keys, Reality drowns me as I attempt to reach the glimmering shine of a future of enjoyment not survival, I can feel the invisible war, The fantasy of youth, The opening of my eyes, The two sides of my soul sparring for what?, A final decision? A black and white feeling? An escape from the suffocation at the hands of society? Maybe to stop the generational repetition, “ Enjoy your youth while you can,” Pressure from the words, I am filled with rage for the ignorance exerted by a simple line, Of the audacity of those who forgot the war, But in the end it’s just time and me, The never-ending battle with my subconscious soldiers of emotion. Is time to be enjoyed? To be feared? To be angered by? To be reminisced? I know not the answer, I would rather bask in time’s incomprehension than fear the inevitable Return to Piece Selection

Synesthesia Anoushka Dugar The little girl couldn’t see. The Sun had shut her eyelids, So she couldn’t look at the stars The Sun was a vain creature. The little girl wanted to see color So she walked across the cobblestone streets Hissed at the fiery star in the sky As breaths dribbled out of her mouth trickling down her chin Why have you closed my eyes? (The Sun was too busy talking to the Moon.) She waited, to silence. The little girl glided across shattered glass of lost voices Paused to look into a small pond There was a fish with one eye who smiled You want to see color I heard, The little girl nodded Orange, hold orange in your hand And let its warmth travel into your veins Until your whole body is filled with this light Hear it. Strum like a guitar Slicing through your breath. The little girl ran across a grassy knoll. Return to Piece Selection

Syrup Ty'ana Pope I could have killed him, that night in the woods. We were alone, no one around for miles, the silence between us filled with the crackling of the bonfire we had spent a near hour trying to figure out how to light safely. No one would have known what I did in those nights. I could have thrown him in the blazing fire, I could have impaled him like a finger brushing against old wood, I could have tied him up and left him under the dock at the lake for the leeches to feed on for all anyone would care. But I could not. I had done it so many times; I had chased people down for blocks on end, I had gutted people alive, and that is not even all of it, cause I had done so much more, and even better I had played my part to get away with it. I had been everyone’s worst nightmare. This should have been no issue for someone like me. But I just could not kill him, no matter how hard I tried, I could not. He was just too… something ? I do not think there is even a word to describe him. His voice played so soft and sweet, almost in a way that sticks with you like sap no matter how much you try to wash it off. His eyes never glowed, only empty, only ever filled with light hope and deep sorrow. His hair always seemed so unkept, but not in a bad way, but in a way that felt like he did not have it in him to maintain his daily appearance. He carried a familiar scent to him, almost like home, not the building, but the feeling of a long-distance family that have not been brought together for years, but are finally coming back with one another, at a funeral, not exchanging a word, the despair in the room saying enough and more than they ever could. Stupidly, I let the night play on, to give him a chance, to let his actions, thoughts, and words give an explanation to his demeanor, and with that the fire no longer popper over us, instead our voices echoed over and throughout our campsite. But soon the fire did not pop at all, and unexpected rain poured from the sky flooding the ground around, just missing us with the incline of where we rested our site. We spoke for hours in the tent, waiting for the rain to stop. Though rather uncomfortable, he made sure there was no space left for an awkward silence to refill the air, and instead he told me stories; ones from his past, ones he had never told another, ones that told me that he trusted me, ones that made me want to sob into the sky until the angels heard my cries to spare him. And I nearly did cry at one point, but he noticed me, stopped, and grabbed my hand; they were rough, yet soft. Nothing about him matched, I was sure of it then. Even his hands contrasted every other thing about him. He began to apologize profusely for saying too much and asked if I had anything to say, anything to change the direction of the conversation. I did not. So, the rain having stopped by then, we moved on. He brought me outside, the smell of petrichor filling the air, easing the atmosphere. And deciding to take advantage of the now clear weather, he started to teach me. He taught me how to fish, how to find poisonous plants and berries, how to avoid them, how to cure any illness with them, how to turn them into a bittersweet honey like syrup. That was my favorite part; mushing the berries and watching their rich nectar ooze out into the little bowls until it was nothing but, the skins of them being taken out to dry out by the fire for a snack later into the night. The syrup we made was put in these almost childlike cups, sippy cups maybe. It tasted like what I imagine Ambrosia from those Greek stories tasting like. By the third sip I felt my body glow down to its core; my veins felt electric, my eyes felt like they had opened a new color spectrum, my muscles could climb my way up to the top Olympus from the underworld with no assistance. But if this were a Greek story, I would be Paris; falling for a forbidden beauty unknown without thinking about the consequences, because syrup is still syrup in a sippy cup, and it is an even deeper cut when it is poisonous. I should have seen it; building trust with a sob story, it was such a typical move, one I had used many times myself, my own game used against me. I should have taken it as my chance to strike, I was stupid not to. But I just had to let the night happen, just I let him play his game. I should have gotten him first, remove this first story and I would still hold my title. I would not be dead right now. Return to Piece Selection

Patient Flowers Khloe Klopfer The snow was dense and heavy on the snowdrop’s delicate stem, making her shiver and wail. When was the time to grow? Would it ever come? Or would she forever live in ugly torture? Would she forever live in darkness? Suddenly, the snowdrop’s wishful prayers had been answered by the beautiful force that holds this world in its fingertips. The snowdrop saw a sliver of light, a raindrop on a painfully humid day. She took it as a sign, her time would come soon, but she must be patient with herself, even if it hurt so horribly that she wished to scream in anger and frustration, she must wait. So she did. She waited, and waited, and waited. Until that one, singular raindrop, became a thundering storm. All the ice drifted away to a happier place, while the beautiful snowdrop stretched her wings as the clouds and the sun kissed her and warmed her until her pale smile brightened the earth much more than the sun ever could. The poppies may look at her in disgust, the roses may shun her beauty, but she was happy. She was proud of herself for holding onto that piece of thread that those cruel poppies and envious roses could never have held onto for so long. She had been patient, she had been kind, and her love would live on longer than the rusted petals of the roses and poppies could imagine in their dark, shadowed roots. Return to Piece Selection