Category: Contributor Exclusives

Staring at Constellations On The Popcorn Ceiling

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Cameron Cole, Junior Film major from Fort Worth, Texas.   Your gaze of     emerald green Like Irish grass    with autumn leaves You’re my         fixed luminous point My star, my   sun, my counterpoint The warmth     from you keeps me alive Until you leave It gets cold  and     I slowly die Once   stationary,        but now shooting through the… Read more →

Ode to the Immortal Lobster

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Adrienne Stallings, Senior, English & Writing, Bedford, Texas you’ll outlive even me. england declared you sentient recently. your pincers crush ice as easily as you’re boiled and steamed. just a little salt, lemon, & butter to achieve true divinity. dearest rock lobster, chosen of Poseidon, it would be fabulous to have you over for dinner. Read more →

Rediscovering Purpose

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Kathryn Reid, Junior, Political Science & English, Keller, Texas          I liked sitting by the window because I could see above everything else. I was as high as the clouds, watching the city like an urban angel. I watched as taxis sped down 9th Avenue and past West Street, ignoring red lights and swerving buses as they drove. The streets… Read more →

Black-Eyed Susan

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Kareyn Hellmann, Senior, Strategic Communication, Creative Writing Minor, Paris, Texas Twenty-seven years of watching her shadow dance across the walls, twirling in and out of contact with his own. Twenty-seven years of watching her stare out the window, brooding on the color of the sky – always the color and shape of the sky. Twenty-seven years of placing flowers in… Read more →

We still pray before dinner.

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Emily DuBose, Senior, English, Austin, Texas I guess it’s just habit. We haven’t even been to church in years. Maybe prayer is the sole leftover of decades of monotonous, perfunctory religious practice. Even my mom’s voice as she says the prayer is automatic, dispassionate. She recites the exact same prayer every day. She has it memorized, her tired voice speeding… Read more →