FINGERTIPS by Emily Fraser
My house – big for our small family – had always been a place of comfort.
It was just me and my mom – my father walked out on us when I was young, but at a year and a half old I didn’t really miss his presence. Mom was the only around to raise me, and she often came home from work ready to collapse. As soon as she was through the front door, she would bee-line for the couch in the living room. She would flop down, the cushions absorbing her tired muscles. I would come down from my bedroom. She’d look at me and say “My baby girl’s here!”
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FRIENDSHIP TEST by Spencer Adair
Friends, they’re with you to the end right? Really? Are we really so sure? So I sat down and came up with a friendship test. Don’t call me paranoid, well maybe I am, like all the time. Anyway I wanted to know just how well my friends knew me. So I came up with a set of questions and asked them to my best friend, Jacob, and someone I just met, Katie.
I called it the Friendship Test.
HUMAN THINGS by Alena Wickham
HHS Junior Alena Wickham’s AP Digital Photography Portfolio features her dog, Willie in a variety of human-like positions and situations. Wickham plays with the nature realms, both human and canine alike in this generous and touching photo series.
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THE HARD BATTLE by May Phim
HHS Senior May Phim’s AP Digital Photography Portfolio features a concentration that hones in on what John Watson once said, “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
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HAUNTED TAILS by Gage Thomas
The events described in the following story are all true.
So back in February I was riding in a car with someone and I saw something that others might see as horrifying. I was riding shotgun in the car since I can’t drive yet (I’m a senior and I can’t drive, yes, I am aware how dumb that is) and I saw a squirrel scuttle across the street.
FIRST DAY by Weylin Messenger
My first full day here was honestly one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever had to go through. Without a sense of guidance (other than the tour that I had got), I felt like a lone sheep in a forest with a pack of wolves. I kind of felt like that the people would just chew me up and spit me out and I would be just a shell of my former self. Read more