The Wolves by Sarah Delappe is a contemporary play about a girl’s soccer team. Delappe focuses in on the girls themselves, giving adults very few lines and rarely showing the teammates off the field. Off field pressures and issues are still very relevant though, as the girls discuss everything from foreign politics to a teammates … Continue reading →

You know that thing that pops into your head right before you fall asleep? That one embarrassing thing that you did, that may have taken place years ago, yet it still continues to make you cringe whenever it enters your mind? Perhaps it was that time that you tripped down a flight of stairs in … Continue reading →

Call me           .                      Never mind how little or no money in my purse, To       me                  , I thought I would see the                       world.              A way I have of regulating the circulation        I find myself growing in my soul; whenever I find coffin warehouses, and                                  every … Continue reading →

Red Rising has many deep meanings behind the society, behind Darrow, behind the whole complexity of the world they live in. The theme of this book to me was that’s a conflict between Appearance versus Reality. There are three major pivotal points in this book that stood out to me the most within the actions, … Continue reading →

Plot summary: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd starts with not the murder of Mr. Ackroyd, but his secret love, Mrs. Ferrars. Mrs. Ferrars was rumored by Dr. Sheppard’s sister, Caroline and others to have poisoned her late husband, Ashley Ferrars. As the story unfolds Mrs. Ferrars death uncovers the truth that she did in fact … Continue reading →

Catholic Metalhead “We are called to love one another, and walk humbly with God!” My mother’s slightly off-key singing voice jolts me awake as the processional ends and everyone takes their seats in their pews. After what went down last night I didn’t really feel like walking anywhere with anyone. I just wanted to curl … Continue reading →

The man— tired of his meaningless life, a meaningless life with no purpose, working eight to five at a dead end job selling useless paper products to companies that did not need the products (Paper products that were marketed as previously being used and recycled was instead previously used and never recycled) products that his … Continue reading →

Continual Opening lines Masquerade a normality.  I’m angry that it matters so much and that Normal isn’t queer. Glowing hearts, caring, and being treated the way I should be treated—this should be normal.   Openly, I try to share with everyone Until the assumptions flood or the exhaustion kicks in. Tired of coming out. Tired … Continue reading →

“You gotta be willing to be brave enough to be the only one who knows you’re afraid.” Lines like this and more were performed by international touring poet and performance artist, Ebony Stewart, Wednesday night at her Student Activities Committee (SAC) sponsored spoken word show. The show was held in the Mills in Dows at … Continue reading →

Impulse is the chronicle of three teenagers’ journeys while in an inpatient mental health program. Told via switching viewpoints (seemingly always leaving the reader on a cliffhanger), Hopkins’s novel focuses on Connor, a rich kid whose parents put so much pressure on his that he attempted suicide, Toni, an abuse victim whose mentor died recently, … Continue reading →