April 7, 2023

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In the quiet nights of winter 
The air sighs with an icy chill 

Bailey Middleton

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Not long ago, I was a high school student who had assigned readings. Some novels I loved, some I hated, and many I’d forgotten about.

Cheyenne Butler

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I recently started watching the Netflix TV series Shadow and Bone over spring break, adapted from the seven novels that span Leigh Bardugo

Miriella Jiffar

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In today’s Third Wave feminist movement, there’s a growing idea that any “choice” a woman makes, with the intention of doing so to empower herself

Eryn Rhodes

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I stumble through life like a dehydration-addled ascetic in a desert during the apocalypse

Kiki McLaughlin

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April has begun. The seams of March have ripped apart, and as I write this the temperatures have climbed all the way into the low 80s.

Andi Sink

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My mother was born with a green ribbon wrapped around her left thumb

Jasmine Wang

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The Sunday night before spring break, after an Instagram direct message from my friend in Tallahassee, I decided to upend my plans to return home t

Hailey Robbins

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