Seconds Ticked By

By Viviana Sanchez, TIWP Student Seconds ticked by. The smell of the coffee shop was warm and nice. A milk frother gurgled and whined. A teen girl with blonde hair and practically invisible eyebrows and several piercings shook a metal bottle vigorously. A small, curly haired child in blue overalls made circles around his tired

The Garden

By Zoe Moga, TIWP Student She had always loved the smell of soil. As a little girl, her father would take her to the nursery for hours as he planned out his garden and bought plants. There she would take in the aroma of dirt. It’s deep, earthy scent full of floral and sweet and

The Witch Trials

By Riley Faust, TIWP Student The chanting outside sent chills down my spine and put fear in my heart. I could hear men, women, even little kids, all combining their voices to say a single, hate-filled word. “Witch.” I knew I should join them. I knew if I didn’t, I might be one of the

Cassandra

By Sol Dente, TIWP Student “Father please!” the young maiden cried, dropping to her knees in the sand and reaching out to grab her father’s hand. “Cassandra, we’ve talked about this!” King Priam snapped. “This horse is a gift from the Greeks, nothing more. This paranoid talk has gone on for far too long,” “You

Who Is She Really?

By Cami Lovell, TIWP Student When I get in, I meet a stranger. I open up to someone new and end up acting like a more vulnerable version of myself. What is it about the safety of a car? The thrill of a stranger? The thought of them stealing you away? It makes me feel

I Think I’ve Lost My Laugh

By Olivia Falk, TIWP Student I think I’ve lost my laugh. I’m not sure where it’s gone… I know that it was with me at one point. Did someone steal it? Did I leave it behind? All I know is now it’s somewhere far away and now I’m here alone. Just thinking. I am a

The Doorstep

By Annie Dashiell, TIWP Student Death waits for me on my doorstep. Sometimes he would appear in the form of a friend, tricking me to open the door for him. I would stop before the door was fully open. I had the twisted feeling in the bottom of my gut that if I let him

The End Justifies the Means

By Sol Dente, TIWP Student “You bastard.” Crimson drops stained the floor around the boy’s shaking shoulders, blood dripping past his lips as he struggled to keep his fragile hold on consciousness. His chocolate brown hair was messy from the fight and normally bright green eyes were clouded with pain. Next to the boy’s kneeling

Butterfly

By Evy Anders, TIWP Student Have you ever heard of the butterfly effect? If you look it up it will tell you that the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.

Undiscovered

By Evy Anders, TIWP Student Zoe was bright. Zoe was kind. Zoe had cute short hair. Jayden loved Zoe. Jayden was an odd, quiet boy which complemented Zoe’s loud and cheery outlook on life, and ever since last month when Jayden bumped into her in their local woods, they were inseparable. In the quiet town