Category: Contributor Exclusives

Dania Kreisl, Senior, English Major from Euless, TX   I’m scared of the winter. I can already feel the cold wind creeping up my legs underneath the layer of my pants as I run from it.   It reminds me of you, of a lot of our firsts, so now a year later I no longer feel your warmth fighting… Read more →

Micah Matherne, Junior BFA student with a focus in painting from Waco, TX.     Read more →

Kaylee Meyer, Sophomore, Studio Art major from Fort Worth, TX. Read more →

Roxy Odiorne, Senior Psychology major with English and Child Development minors from Georgetown, TX.   MannequinI am a mannequin.I’m flesh and blood, tissue and bone.Bruises blossom across my skinAs reminders to watch where I’m going.Tiredness slips into my limbs at the day’s endWhile air rushes like wind through my lungs,In and out, in and out.My body proves that I am… Read more →

Micah Matherne, Junior BFA student with a focus in painting from Waco, TX. Read more →

Brianna Harkins, Senior Writing major from Fort Worth, TX.   Captain Ahab was Herman Melville’s bitch,Stuck in that boat, searching for a whaleThat refused a mere bloated existence.A white whale to match his white ass.Voyage on, voyage on, pay him withTobacco and blubber and teeth.Moby Dick Van Dyke clicks his denturesAt Mary Poppins’ bloomers. The ol’ biddyRefuses to cinch her… Read more →

Elissa Oeschler, Senior Theatre Design and Technology major and an English minor from Houston, TX. This is the only life I will ever live.I will never feel the warmth of a different sunor lead a Royal Army on a quest through an enchanted wood.I cannot pee standing up without making a messand I do not know what it’s like to… Read more →

Ofuchinyelu Akpom, Junior Computer Science and Spanish and Hispanic Studies double major from Arlington, TX. Read more →

Roxy Odiorne, Senior Psychology major with English and Child Development minors from Georgetown, TX.   The electrodes always give me a headache when I wake up. As my alarm blares, I struggle to get out of bed, bones aching like they always do after amonitoring night. Pale sunlight streams through the window across my faded blue comforter, cutin slices by… Read more →

Isabella Pasino, Junior Graphic Design major from Fullerton, CA.   Read more →