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High School Literary Magazine
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Joshua Misterka
January 2013
Letter from the Editors
Aadelsha Freeman
Christine Dona
The Indecisive Rose
The red petals of that rose,
Are all that I want to see.
Cause without that simple rose, I live a life of misery.
Nothing in all the space,
Puts a smile on my face,
As much as when the wins blows,
Through the pedals of an indecisive rose.
The image of the rose, is something that we all can see,
It’s beauty resembles an angle from above.
On that tiny little rose, in all of it’s beauty,
Is a symbol one’s true and only love.
Nothing in all of space
Puts a smile on my face,
As much as when the wind blows,
Through the pedals of an indecisive rose.
And when my skin is torn, by all the thorns,
It’s hard to reach the care.
But even though I bleed, if I succeed,
I could ask for nothing more.
Nothing in all of space,
Puts a smile on my face,
As much as when the wind blows,
Through the pedals of that indecisive rose.
Anonymous
My Own “ Earth Only”
By Daquon Mayo
One single boy
Alone
One choice
Life
Death
He vanishes
Never
To be discovered
To Students: A Sonnet
Lingering in the hallways to the bell, Names ne’er written atop your assignment.
Then to read simple words thou cans’t not spell,
Sentences that runneth on, I am spent!
Classes fill’d with distracted chatter. Trash heaps left upon mine floors and table.
When a colleague asks, “What is the matter?”
I shake mine head, tis all I am able.
Tasks ignored and thy duties abandoned. Grades that earn the alphabet’s second vowel.
Late work? You hath not a leg to stand on!
Alas, thine interims shall make you howl!
Mine wish is that thou see’st graduation,
And these foul habits meet their cessation.
Angela L. Single-Adelman
Rachel Olson
Niah Oliver
Wind By: Vashit Burman
I am the wind. I flow freely with the breeze I love to sing as I whistle through the tees. One day I hope to travel far, like the wind around the globe. A fast moving current from Baltimore to Britain and from Britain to Italy. From Italy to France, and from France to Australia. I’ll keep moving, a never ending breeze, I’ll always keep moving and do as I please
Forest Forever By: Anonymous
Today it happened again: I had the urge to go out into the forest. There is this small wood behind my house and sometimes I just want to go outside and relax when things get too hectic. It feels like a breath of fresh air be away from my computer, cell phone, T.V., and everything else. When I go into the woods I always see this deer that walks around in there. Whenever I try to get close she runs away but I don't blame her. She probably thinks I’m trying to hurt her. Sometimes I take my camera with me so I can take some pictures of what I see. I have a few pictures of the deer. She has small specks around her neck, one giant white spot on her leg, and her eyes are a beautiful shade of brown. I winder how many more animals live in this forest. I can hear the shuffling of many creatures but I se nothing. I try to draw what I can see or what I think is there, like a small family of foxes or rabbit hiding itself. Every time I go into the woods I feel like I’m in a different world altogether, a more beautiful world than the one we’re on right now. Then I think of all the pollution in out air and how we seem to be killing the earth. I want to so something to help sp the world will look like my forest, more beautiful.
Book: Shiver
Author: Maggie Steifvater
Rating: 4.5/5
By: Déja Johnson In the small town of Mercy Falls, terrible creatures
live there. These creatures are wolves, which are
thought as creatures that kill for blood and thirst.
When one day, a girl named Grace goes outside
as a little girl and plays in the snow without any
parents’ attention. Grace is taken by the wolves,
and she is frightened that this maybe the end for
her. Before her mind blanks out, she can’t help but
remember the yellow-eyed wolf. When she wakes
up she is back at home, with the wolf stuck in her
memory as her savior. This memory changes
Grace and only keeps her
wanting to know more
about the wolves, who live
in Mercy Falls. Grace has
grown believing that one
day she will meet her wolf,
but for now she only sees
him when the snowfalls in
Mercy Falls. Sam is a
teenage boy who loves
books; he has dark brown
hair and yellow eyes. He is Grace’s savior, and he
works right at her local book store during the sum-
mer. Sam goes from human to wolf, and he strug-
gles through with it. When the winter season
comes, Grace is home alone again and she hears
a noise that sounds like a gun shot. When Grace
goes to the balcony she sees a boy who has been
shot, and takes him to the hospital. Grace finds out
his name is Sam, and that he is her wolf. With this
information trouble comes her way, and it changes
Graces life forever. Grace and Sam have Mother
Nature to fight against, for their forbidden love to
stay for all eternity. Javon
Haley Barcus
Hate List Author: Jennifer Brown
Hate List is the debut novel by award-winning writer Jennifer Brown. In this
novel, Valerie Leftman must return to school five months after her boyfriend,
Nick, took a gun and shot their classmates, many of whom Valerie places on a
list she dubbed the hate list. Many of the kids and most of the adults think Val-
erie knew of Nick’s plot to kill the kids on the list despite the fact that Valerie
saved the life of one girl and was shot herself. Even the police thought Valerie
was responsible until an unnamed girl went to the police and insisted that Val-
erie never shot anyone. In Hate List, Valerie and everyone around her must
pick up the pieces after tragedy.
Written By: Claudia Bilger
The MAZE RUNNER TRILOGY
The maze runner trilogy was captivating from start to finish. The
mastery surrounding the story in book one raises a sense of interest. The mys-
tery is coupled with betrayal in book two. The reader would believe that the
protagonist and allies have no hope; nothing to live for in the runner’s cruel
and twisted world. Unwavering, the group still continued on hoping it would
be a means to an end. When the trilogy comes to the final book the group
found paradise but peace never quite follow.
By: Chris Hildebrand
A KISS IN TIME
The classic story of sleeping beauty gets retold with a fun and modern twist in
Alex Flinn’s A Kiss in Time. The story is about an American boy, Jack, who
travels to Germany with his best friend and awaken Talia (300-year-old prin-
cess) and her entire kingdom that has been asleep because of a curse. We fol-
low Jack and Talia on their adventure where Talia tries to get use to the twenty
first, while both begin to fall in love with each other. If you love drama, ro-
mance, and teenage angst, you will love this book.
By: Catherine Barwulor
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