This Issue
![iris flowers](/sites/iris/files/styles/article_image_340x340/public/2024-04/letter%20to%20editor%20%281%29.png?itok=O2QGDaf7)
She feels an unsettling rumbling in her chest before she feels the tremor beneath her feet.
Jasmine Wang
Jasmine Wang
![hands touching](/sites/iris/files/styles/article_image_340x340/public/2024-04/Autumn%20C10%20Lindsey%20.png?itok=uxIyrPGu)
when sunlight hits foggy glass just right
prints reveal themselves, oil smeared into smiling faces
Lindsey Smith
Lindsey Smith
Dear Future Jordan,
Do you remember when we discovered Percy Jackson?
Jordan Coleman
Jordan Coleman
I walk downstairs and you are not there.
Susannah Baker
Susannah Baker
We sit across from each other, hands wrapped around our warm lavender mochas—almost mirror images of each other.
Ella Powell
Ella Powell
Eryn Rhodes
Eryn Rhodes
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Eryn Rhodes
Eryn Rhodes
We sit across from each other, hands wrapped around our warm lavender mochas—almost mirror images of each other.
Ella Powell
Ella Powell
I walk downstairs and you are not there.
Susannah Baker
Susannah Baker
Dear Future Jordan,
Do you remember when we discovered Percy Jackson?
Jordan Coleman
Jordan Coleman
![hands touching](/sites/iris/files/styles/article_image_340x340/public/2024-04/Autumn%20C10%20Lindsey%20.png?itok=uxIyrPGu)
when sunlight hits foggy glass just right
prints reveal themselves, oil smeared into smiling faces
Lindsey Smith
Lindsey Smith
![iris flowers](/sites/iris/files/styles/article_image_340x340/public/2024-04/letter%20to%20editor%20%281%29.png?itok=O2QGDaf7)
She feels an unsettling rumbling in her chest before she feels the tremor beneath her feet.
Jasmine Wang
Jasmine Wang
![curtain being peeled back](/sites/iris/files/styles/article_image_340x340/public/2024-04/Autumn%20C9%20Cheyenne%20.png?itok=g2-RS-XW)
As fourth-year students, my friend and I wanted to celebrate our final spring break with a bang, so naturally, we took a spontaneous trip to Las Ve
Cheyenne Butler
Cheyenne Butler
Our issue opens with Cheyenne Butler’s piece “What Happens in Vegas Should
Jasmine Wang
Jasmine Wang
![figure of a girl hugging herself](/sites/iris/files/styles/article_image_340x340/public/2024-04/Autumn%20C9%20Cassie.png?itok=6NkiqLi_)
Favorites day can happen however much you need it, and it can be whatever you want. Wear your favorite clothes, even if they don’t match.
Cassie Dallas
Cassie Dallas
![letter above a middle school](/sites/iris/files/styles/article_image_340x340/public/2024-04/Autumn%20C9%20Susannah.png?itok=FVjMtPOh)
Middle school, almost by definition, is not supposed to be a place where anyone thrives.
Susannah Baker
Susannah Baker
![a kpop girl group](/sites/iris/files/styles/article_image_340x340/public/2024-04/Autumn%20C9%20Jordan%20.png?itok=6t2U_n5q)
My K-pop origin story all began with a YouTube React video.
Jordan Coleman
Jordan Coleman
![canvas paintings on easels](/sites/iris/files/styles/article_image_340x340/public/2024-04/Autumn%20C9%20Caroline%20.png?itok=fLzdQhUY)
My body, mind, and soul are a solar system
Made up of hundreds of moons, millions of asteroids, and a multitude of planets
I freeze in place and then thaw. Thoughts trickle along in a spiral of longing aspiration.
Ella Powell
Ella Powell
![red open mouth with bacteria in the back of throat](/sites/iris/files/styles/article_image_340x340/public/2024-04/Autumn%20C9%20Lindsey.png?itok=ufYImwm4)
The red dress I had planned on wearing to my boyfriend’s winter formal, coincidentally, happened to be the same shade of red as the back of my thro
Lindsey Smith
Lindsey Smith
What do you do when you’re sad?
I stand tall.
I become like a tree:
Bailey Middleton
Bailey Middleton
![a bunch of letters on a background of green](/sites/iris/files/styles/article_image_340x340/public/2024-03/Autumn%20C8%20Jasmine.png?itok=dXGp3KPg)
Jasmine Wang
Jasmine Wang
When replanting our roots after they have been ruptured, it is crucial we find soil forgiving enough to support our growth, healing, and rebirth.
![brick roads or blue background with a door](/sites/iris/files/styles/article_image_340x340/public/2024-03/Autumn%20C8%20Lindsey.png?itok=QPObGbpX)
I knock, gently, on the door, but there is no answer. Perhaps I am at the wrong address.
Lindsey Smith
Lindsey Smith
![figures of womens bodies pole dancing](/sites/iris/files/styles/article_image_340x340/public/2024-03/Autumn%20C8%20Cheyenne.png?itok=SuCsFFlT)
Yes, I took a pole dancing class. Anyone who knows me is likely unsurprised since I’ve been wanting to take one for quite some time.
Cheyenne Butler
Cheyenne Butler
I plead and prod
For the answers to your hurt.
I wait, which is to say I wilt.
Ella Powell
Ella Powell
An ode, an homage to these storied Ethiopian highlands, a chess board of the gods as Homer once said, where goats and shepherds have become their c
Miriella Jiffar
Miriella Jiffar
my grandfather knows trees
like I know the bark of his calloused hands
their leaves, their roots, their flowers
Susannah Baker
Susannah Baker