A huge step to take
Story by Kaitlyn Gordon, staff writer
February 6, 2018
Right now it’s five months away. She has five measly months to make up for all of the times she’s going to miss. Then, it will be 1000 miles and fourteen hours away. Then, it will be too late. The distance and time between her best friends and a place that she calls home is not something she wants...
A virtual love for the game
Story by Amanda Garmon, staff writer
February 6, 2018
Imagination flows through his brain. A whirlwind of thoughts and ideas envelop him. A variety of different video game scenarios inspire him to dig deeper into the background of how video games function. His curiosity prompts his desire to learn more and more about it. Junior, Braiden Brown, want...
Somewhere across the sea
Story by Maddie Anderson, staff writer
February 2, 2018
She walks through the halls of Texas High, her new school. Students bustle running to classes and laughing with friends. Administrators and teachers dispersed throughout the hallways, monitoring the vast sea of strangers that surround her. This would be junior Julia Kubiak’s world for the next nine months....
Hanging onto hope
Story by Joseph Asher, staff writer
February 2, 2018
She closes her eyes to escape the reality of the world. Her heart jumps out of her chest, her skin turns pale and her lips began to quiver. Her cries flood the room, and her screams echo off the walls. Reading the text that changed her life and turned her world upside down, she goes blank, entering ...
Reading literature from a new perspective
Story by Kaitlyn Gordon, staff writer
January 31, 2018
First you are thinking, “Do we really have to read another book?” You read the first six pages, and you are appalled. You read the pages again just to make sure you are not mistaken, but no — you weren’t. Within these first few pages, “The Color Purple” will shock readers with its blunt, i...
An escape from reality
Story by Grey Johnson, staff writer
January 11, 2018
Video. Film. Hundreds and hundreds of frames. Hundreds and hundreds of minutes of work, of dedication. All for this. All for those precious couple of moments. But it’s more than that, it’s for the satisfaction of completing another masterpiece. Sophomore Remington Cook has made about 26 short films in total....
I am not my hair
Story by Misty Lopez, feature editor
December 29, 2017
It had changed. It wasn’t some typical decision like wanting a new look or making a statement. It just simply changed on it’s own, and there was nothing he could do to reverse it. Around the fourth grade, junior Alex Holt lost all color in his hair, transforming his once brown hair to white. “One...
Struck by a smooth dancer
Story by Victoria Van, entertainment editor
December 28, 2017
Background music is heard as a striking figure begins to move his body, never once going off beat and producing a spring to his step that cannot be hindered. For every movement he makes, cheers echo from the audience as they continue to be awed. Freshman Jurman Williams actively seeks...
A work of art
Story by Jhovany Perez, feature editor
December 26, 2017
The paint brush glides across the small crevices of her artwork as she adds every detail possible. Her imagination soars as she interprets someone else’s idea, an idea she turns into a masterpiece. Junior Mckenzie Brown began in middle school doing commissions for people who desire an art piece and...
A captured dream
Story by Jenny Gonzalez, staff writer
December 25, 2017
No emails. The following day repeats with the same news, no emails. Each dreaded day slowly passes by. Every time there’s nothing but the words inside his head telling him don’t give up, this is just the beginning. Sophomore Oren Smith’s love for photography sparked around the eighth grade,...
Emptiness is consuming
Story by Katie Biggar, staff writer
December 14, 2017
Emptiness is consuming. The feeling of utter loneliness is powerful when conjoined with fear and loss. Emptiness is blinding. It takes over your thoughts and leaves you trapped in your own head, questioning the things that can’t change. Emptiness blinded her. It took parts of her she was never comm...
Change the focus
Story by Cameron Murry, staff writer
November 28, 2017
The chair goes up on its back legs as the teacher looks accusingly at her hyperactive student, the lone indication that his position will get him in trouble. He puts the chair legs back on the ground, but begins to tap his pencil on the wooden desk. She walks to her desk and makes a note of his actio...
