I’m often asked why I write in my free time. “Why do you write?” my friends ask. My answer: largely because it’s just… fun. When I’m not doing homework, I’m nose-deep in modern tragedies...

Whenever I am sick, my mother presses the soft cloth of stories in my mouth. She speaks about idioms or the origins of the moon — stories that can only exist between fevers, with both eyes closed, sleep...

The start of senior Chelsea Guo’s writing journey can be defined by a collection of moments: being reprimanded by her elementary school teachers for reading too much, describing the scenery outside her...

You don’t have to live in a whimsical house by the ocean, or endure years of famine while leading an underground revolution to be worthy of creative writing. In fact, most writers put pen to paper for...

  Stories of historical tragedies and personal narratives fill senior Sophia Zhang’s mind as she creates meaning from the two. Her original short stories address themes from remembrance to...

Today I went to the redwood tree,  “I’ve shaken hands with death multiple times,” sophomore Vedanshi Prasad said.  greeted by the brush of its leaves, welcomed in its embrace.  In January...

While many of my kindergarten classmates went to lunch ecstatic and hungry, I went to lunch every day on a mission: to make a friend. My dad always advised me to make friends by following the other kids...

After school, I would lean my head against our dinner table — our house too empty, too quiet. With my father gone for business trips and my mother busy writing countless documents for work, their absence...