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Vol. III Issue 1
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” —Maya Angelou
Fiction Wendy Smith, “Wolf” She did not understand at ten. All she knew was that the dress was too heavy, the woods too quiet. She gripped the basket in her hands and trailed cautiously behind her mother, watching the stillness with fear running in cold hands down her spine.
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Steinbrenner High School’s Student Literary Magazine March 2014
Taken and Lost Carli Blanchard
Poetry Courtney Barron, “The Old Mountain” With every aching joint my adrenaline keeps pumping, I think 'almost there' with deep and heavy breathing. Making my way across the titanium bridge I float on air, and step by step I begin to forget every hurt and every care; Melissa Ferrin, “I Don’t Think You Understand the Gravity of My Situation”
I Found Beauty on the Ground Kendel Burke
Free Heads Miranda Cornell
plus more great prose, poetry, and art by Jacob Gonclaves • Lara Arid Jeff McFarland • Aliya Talbani Mariangely Miyares Karli Jahnigen
You walked into the room super massive, heavy with perfection I couldn’t prove. Your visage glowed with the density of light caught in your atoms, I couldn’t imagine you floated on water.
Featuring “Panic” by PTSA Reflections award-winner Melissa Ferrin