Month: December 2022

Mya Estrada,Senior, Strategic Communication & Writing, El Paso, Texas   The iris and lantana in the yard sway in the summer breeze. The cows converse de ida y vuelta, The doves in the trees coo. The horses in the pasture flick their tails.   A golden, west Texas sunset glows brilliantly on every surface. Under the shade of the porch,… Read more →

Gabriella Perkins, Junior, English, Italian Minor, Sacramento, CA There is a girl in front of me. Alas, I know what she can see; I press my hands against the glass And wish that I could disagree.   When she looks outside at the grass, Is she avoiding feelings that harass Her mind while she’s stuck in a trance? She needs… Read more →

Kennedy Bigham, Class of Dec 2023, Religion, Classical Studies Minor, Salem, OR   I am Eve.   A woman with a past.  Haunted by the memory of a fruit forbidden.  One bite and I was sunk.  Destined to be a slave to sin.  Waiting for a wrong to be righted. Awaiting a divine intervention.   Holy redemption.    Waiting. Ruminating. Praying.… Read more →

Kareyn Hellmann, Senior, Strategic Communication, Creative Writing Minor, Paris, Texas Our love is like                            t h u n d e r   Howling on the seafront  While a tornado tears towards the heavens, snarling And fish burrow deeper into the depths, swimming And waves wage war against… Read more →

Anaya White, Sophomore, Pre-business Major, Creative Writing Minor, Fort Worth, Texas   I’m ill with an aching and desperate desire to be so much more than I am. My stem could be longer My roots could be stronger My flowers, a much deeper red.   They picked me apart like the petals on roses  and told me they did it… Read more →

Lauren Wahlstrom, Junior, Educational Studies & English, Laguna Niguel, CA At twilight, my eyes spy nature’s Glue-Stick. A slow, squishy soft Sweetheart lumbering smoothly off a ginger leaf. Its swirly spirals of golden shell bear-semblance to Athena’s ornately armored Helmet. I watch it plop into the shaded grass.   I survey its sticky trail as it goes, Devoted to the… Read more →

Angelina Leonardi, Sophomore, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, San Diego, CA     A house beside the street is a house no longer a home. A home sentenced to a coffin a coffin where the memories roam.   Walk past its doors threshold where the living and dead separate. Walk into a ghost’s cold embrace  For they have been left to this… Read more →

Deanna Chukes, Senior, Film/TV/Digital Media, Keller, TX Play link below: one_hundred_paper_stars_1 Read more →

Mark Rose, Junior, Political Science, Criminal Justice & English Minors, Oklahoma City, OK It paints a soft, blue hue around the pair;  They lay cuddled on the blanketed grass.  Gazing at the stars, breathing the crisp air;  It’s a feeling nothing else can surpass.    It throws a pale glow from above the trees,  Guiding them through the back road’s… Read more →

Anthony Lucido, Senior, History, Fort Worth, Texas        “Oh, good Lord, why am I doing this? Why did I agree to do this? My parents worked hard to give me the life they never had, and now… I throw it all away.”          To take his mind off of things, the young man looked out the window and… Read more →