By Maya Petzoldt, TIWP StudentThe Titan Age was the birth of many terrible things, but panic was not one of them. To understand the birth of panic, we must understand the family of death first. Born from Nyx was Thanatos, god of death. Before his birth, not a thing or spirit died, not even whenContinue reading “The Birth of Panic”
Category Archives: Fiction
The Hatred of Loving You…a short story
By Ava Skidgel, TIWP Student “Do you really hate me?” She looked at him dead in the eyes, disdain fueling the rage inside of her. He looked back back at her with a soul full of pity and a look of regret. “Fredrick!?” she scorched, hoping he would give her the response she longed for.Continue reading “The Hatred of Loving You…a short story”
The Trolley Problem
By Maya Petzoldt, TIWP Student Many people are familiar with the Train Cart scenario, or the Trolley Problem. You are in a rampaging train cart, that is barreling uncontrollably down the tracks. Next to you is a lever, and if you pull that lever, the train cart will switch onto another track. Option A: Don’tContinue reading “The Trolley Problem”
A Midnight Nightmare
By Elena Tamagno, TIWP Student I can hear cracking and creaking in the floorboards at the base of my bed every night. I can hear my parents above me in their room, and I can hear my sister’s hushed snores from across the hall. I know it isn’t them. The cat is curled up nextContinue reading “A Midnight Nightmare”
The Bookstore
By Elena Tamagno, TIWP Student I have a window that I sit by in the morning. I watch the rain fall in the winter, the sun come up over the valley in the summer. Something just feels special about that weather. I see people pass me by. If you look closely enough at the crowdsContinue reading “The Bookstore”
Ben Frank
By Dylan Scott, TIWP student I’m Josh. There is nothing special about me, unless you think a kid who has mediocre grades, goes to an average school, and lives in an average house is special. In the small town we live in, nothing exciting ever happens. My day starts with waking up, making myself someContinue reading “Ben Frank”
Dead
By Will Leibowitz, TIWP student Five years ago today my dad died in an experiment, but today I will get revenge. He was doing an experiment with a scientist named Ven. He knew something that my dad didn’t, something that would kill my dad, but not him. So today I will kill him. I walkContinue reading “Dead”
Cinderella, JD
By Kiera Roux, TIWP Student Cinderella climbed up the dusty ladder to her attic bedroom, tumbling onto her bed and kicking her shoes off with exhaustion. Pain throbbed up her back and neck from slouching over the floors to polish them. Her stepmother and sisters had gone to bed, so she could finally splay outContinue reading “Cinderella, JD”
The Monster
By Elle Gordon, TIWP Student Once upon a time there was a girl with a smile on her face and a monster in her heart. The monster slowly ate away at her as she waved to the struggling people in her kingdom with her perfect pink nails. She could not hear their cries for help.Continue reading “The Monster”
Better Places
By Maya Petzoldt, TIWP student REACTOR COMPROMISED. HULL COMPROMISED. TOP DECK COMPROMISED. SECOND DECK-“YEAH! I get it! The ship’s compromised! I didn’t need a stupid watch’s alarm system to tell me that!” I quickly go back to panting heavily as I sprint through the hallways, listening in horror to the sloshing of water that IContinue reading “Better Places”
