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Spring 2014 issue
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List of Contributors – Spring 2014
List of Contributors – May 2014 Fiction Haunted – Amy Solov Secrets of Eugene Onegin – Julia Fowler Nonfiction Pictures in My Heart – Siqi Liu Poetry Black and White – Sophie Jupillat Ghost – Haley Lunde Him – Eliza Newman I AM WHO I AM – Kelsey Kirk Leaf in the Fall…
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Haunted
Author: Amy Solov Grade 11 at Oliver Ames High School 1st place Live Arts Contest Haunted The haggard man sat cautiously on the plastic seat of the train. He had a crumpled one-way ticket in his left hand, a small green trash bag in his right. The bag held what little belongings he still had—a…
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Winter Fishing
Artist: Aaron Long Title: Winter Fishing Grade 12 at Perryville High School 1st place Live Arts Contest ____________________________________________________________________
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Him
Author: Eliza Newman Year: Junior at USC 2nd place Live Arts Contest Him You fall in love Faster than a calendar changes pages It happens so over and over again That it stops being love But it’s not quite lust either You don’t fawn over bodies and breasts You fawn…
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Secrets of the House
Author: Kaleigh DePetro Grade: 11th at Woodbridge Senior High School 2nd place Live Arts Contest Secrets of the House There are secrets in this house. I can feel them whispering with every creak of the floor boards, Paintings with wandering eyes. Things that disappear, Gone, without a trace. I know things I…
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Leaf in the Fall
Author: Lexi Baysinger Year: Sophomore at Greenville College Leaf in the Fall It had been a good year. I still remember unfolding from the bud that I started out as on this wonderful oak tree. It was a good caregiver, my home tree. It provided just the right amount of water to help me…
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Rooted
Author: Annie Reyes Year: Sophomore at Greenville College Rooted She resembled an oak tree. Tethered by the seasons that carved their initials unto its trunk. Not once shaken by the brutality of a windstorm, nor moved by the flowers that grew beside it. She kept still while the world ran around in circles. Voluntarily…
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Black and White
Author: Sophie Jupillat Year: Senior at Rollins College  Black and White Black high heels clicking on the smooth cement, white from the morning sun White collared shirt, with shadows black, the pencil skirt black. Black pillow of the night with the white gibbous moon resting on its black surface White, white head of the moon…
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Ghost
Author: Haley Lunde Grade: 12th at Carlton High School 1st place Live Arts Contest Ghost As I sat in the school hall this morn’ I took notice of the wakening rise, Making the school seem old and worn. As that light just rightly tilted against the floors, Dusty old ghost prints made their way…
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I AM WHO I AM
Writer: Kelsey Kirk Year: Graduate from Shorter University I AM WHO I AM Â El Shaddai, The Lord God Almighty, Our Sustainer; El Elyon, the Most High God; The Extreme Sovereignty and Majesty; Adonai, Lord Master, Not to be taken in vain; Yahweh, Lord Jehovah, He is who He is; Jehovah Raah, The Lord…
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A Welsh Confession
Name: Heather Burdsall Undergrad at Messiah College 1st place Live Arts Contest A Welsh Confession It’s not on the hillside I find him Anointing lambs’ wounds with oil. I can’t find him with the filthy, Cupping their faces in his hands. Not even in the boathouse, ready To loosen the rope…
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Secrets of Eugene Onegin
Name: Julia Fowler Year: Junior at Southwestern University 1st place Live Arts Contest Secrets of Eugene Onegin The air was full, and it was full incomparably, with light and clarity and wide open spaces of sound and color. Suddenly, all these things gathered together and burst apart, cut through by a single blank tone coming…
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Pictures in My Heart
Author: Siqi Liu Grade: 11 at Naperville Central High School 1st place Live Arts Contest Pictures in My Heart As I walked home from school one dreary afternoon, the usual pool of black liquid and human waste sitting outside my apartment building caught my eye. There was a fresh green leaf that somehow got mixed…
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The Plague of Winter
Name: Colby Rouchka Grade: 11th at Edwardsville High School 1st place Live Arts Contest The Plague of Winter As the brisk winds wash over the earth, Death becomes abundant. As the plague of winter courses upon him, He knows this is the end. For him, and many others like him, death comes slowly. It…
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Dead City Radio
 Name: Emily Petroline Grade: 10th at Greenville High School Name of Piece: Dead City Radio 1st place Live Arts Contest Emily is from Sorento Illinois. She is a sophomore at Greenville High School where she participates in the art and music programs. This is her first entry in an art contest. Although most of her…
