top of page
Literary Magazine


The Bargain
I’ve been chasing you for so long. My heavy footsteps cast destruction to the earth. The air holds in a breath as my lethal cancer...
Aly Trevino
Oct 3, 20252 min read


A Tapestry of Sun, Sea, and Memories
There are places on Earth where time seems to stretch, bending like the curves of the hills that roll away into the horizon. Italy is one of them. For the summer of 2022, I had the privilege of becoming a part of its timeless dance, where every cobblestone seemed to whisper a secret, and every sunset bled into a symphony of colors. To say that I visited Italy would be like saying that I dipped a toe into the ocean — it was an immersion, a deep plunge into a culture, a landsca
Aly Trevino
Oct 3, 20255 min read


Silence
Some crave me Others strive to fill me Big or small infinities pass by Filled with uncertainties They hold their face in their hands, the...
Aly Trevino
Oct 3, 20251 min read


Picture Perfect
You must be identical ‘Picture perfect’ Like cookies cut out from the same cookie cutter Stamped to all be the same Perfection is key...
Ava Yang
Oct 2, 20251 min read


Is True Love Real?
The American dream has been seen to have love, success, and happiness inside of it. Nevertheless, Janie Crawford and Jay Gatsby chase...
Eleanor Kohnen
Sep 29, 20254 min read


Breaking the Frame: Beloved, The Life Before Us and Feminist Art Reclaim Women’s Stories
For centuries, women were spoken for, spoken over, and spoken about but were rarely allowed to speak. That silence is shattered by Toni Morrison's Beloved and Romain Gary's The Life Before Us , as characters Sethe and Madame Rosa illustrate their individual stories, aligning with feminists' cries for recognition in the 1960s through the 1980s. The Feminist Art Movement was a breaking point from the long-held male-centered perspective in the art world. The movement's purpose
Grace Kennedy
Sep 24, 202510 min read


How?
Many people wonder what would happen if they met the world's smartest man What would they say? What would be asked? I have met him and I...
Elle Testerman
Sep 7, 20252 min read


Rewriting Reality: The Harlem Renaissance and the Art of Defiance
For the longest time, a very dim silhouette represented Black Americans, sketched by the fingers of oppression and shaded with...
Grace Kennedy
Sep 7, 202512 min read


Lost Voices: The Perpetual Struggle for Female Narrative Agency in Frankenstein and Mrs.Dalloway
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman,” Virginia Woolf once wrote, reflecting on the systematic erasure of women’s voices...
Noor Arif
Aug 31, 20259 min read


My Story Orphanage
Half Price Books: a gold mine for a voracious reader. In grade school, those aisles filled with used books were my weekend getaway. I...
Lily Plum Gartenlaub
Aug 31, 20253 min read


The Shattering of the Kaleidoscope: the Simultaneous Power and Danger of Illusion in TheGreat Gatsby and “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”
Cause I’m in love with my future, can’t wait to meet her –Billie Eilish, “My Future” From hip Gen Z music artists like Billie Eilish to...
Lily Plum Gartenlaub
Aug 31, 20259 min read


Behind the Paint and Letters: Uncovering the Parallels between Virginia Woolf and Pablo Picasso
The fun of Cubism is that many people can look at the same painting done by Pablo Picasso, and everyone can see something completely...
Grace Kennedy
Aug 24, 20255 min read
bottom of page