Sometimes I feel thinner than yesterday Sometimes I wonder if this body’s mine Sometimes I burn with power like lion prey Sometimes I wilt like a vine left to dry Sometimes I speak and shine with brilliance Sometimes I drift through silence and haze Sometimes I rise...
Ingrid Eckermann
Ingrid Eckermann is a freshman at Pacifica Christian High School who enjoys creative writing, specifically fiction or fantasy. She is in Yearbook and is additionally interested in journalism.
Review: Twilight
Twilight, the first book of a fantasy saga written by Stephanie Meyer, is one of the most influential vampire and werewolf books to be written. It is a story of a young, average teenage girl, Bella Swan, who moves to her dad’s town mid-year: the bleak, dreary town of...
Review: The Aeneid by Vergil
The Aeneid by Vergil is a Roman epic that follows the journey of Aeneas, a Trojan warrior who escapes the destruction of Troy and sets out to find a new homeland in Italy. Guided by fate and the gods, Aeneas faces numerous trials, including storms at sea, battles, and...
Review: Kingmakers by Sophie Lark
Kingmakers, a saga written by Sophie Lark, is the perfect mix of both thriller and romance, brought to life by the characters Anna Wilks and Leo Gallo. Anna and Leo have been friends since childhood, due to their families being mafiosos in their respective regions....
Book review: “The Odyssey”
The epic The Odyssey, written by Homer, is what philosophers call “canonical” or “classic” pieces of literature due to its prevalent lessons and moral displayed between the two main characters, Telemachus and his father, Odysseus. After Odysseus disappears during war,...
Column: Grown up
Oh, how I wish I were grown up And only then I’d be allowed makeup And only then would decisions be mine And my will would be done without a whine I’d do all Mother so desperately avoids Just to taste life without the parental paranoids And I’d eat all the...
Review: ‘The Boys Who Challenged Hitler’ by Philip Hoose
The nonfiction novel "The Boys Who Challenged Hitler," written by Philip Hoose, tells the tale of a group of Danish boys against the Nazis Regime in their country Denmark. These boys, whom they called themselves The Churchill Club, named after Winston Churchill. This...