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Backseat

Backseat

Isabella Marler, Creative writer May 28, 2025

The backseat was cold. Rhoswen sat up. “Where is this?” The Jeep wobbled, the way it drove. The way Rilla always drove. The engine rumble buried deep down inside her belly. “Salt flats....

Fable

Fable

Isabella Marler, Journalist & Creative Writer May 14, 2025

Bathed in moonlight, the forest glowed with foxfire.  Bright neon green licked up rattling, rustling leaves, clawed over twisted tree trunks, and burned through the night, searing everything it touched....

A Sonnet for Questions

A Sonnet for Questions

Guido Pedretti, Managing Editor of Entertainment May 8, 2025

When they first began? When things like this first began? Around campfires they have born And ancient Greek and Roman philosophers, in toga, and Indian sages on river rocks They didn’t stop even...

Theater and Leadership: My Personal Journey

Theater and Leadership: My Personal Journey

Katherine Witt, Journalist April 14, 2025

The thing about theater is that most of the time, it’s a group effort. It isn’t led by one person or made possible by just one singular effort. It’s the collection of people and wills that makes...

Heart on Your Sleeve

Heart on Your Sleeve

Isabella Marler, Journalist & Creative Writer April 14, 2025

Echo Gray               Fresh water and cool black rock.               Echo waded into the shallows, the still water. Crisp and clear. The chill felt familiar, like a spring breeze...

Defying the Gale

Defying the Gale

Lion’s Den Staff March 30, 2025

The wind is not my friend she once whispered that she'd always have my back always be there to catch me if i fall but her lies are like a lemon on a sunny day sweet until they turn sour I...

Il Gattopardo By Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - Italian Edition

The Leopard’s Leaps Across the Novel, the Film, and the Television Show

Guido Pedretti, Managing Editor of Entertainment March 3, 2025

On March 5, 2025, a very strange series will be released on Netflix. No, it’s not Stranger Things. It is a series bringing together American and Italian actors, taking place in Sicily during the period...

How to Write a First Draft

How to Write a First Draft

Sophia Elina McIntosh, Managing Editor of Human Interest February 2, 2025

Staring at a blank page is incredibly daunting. We’ve all dealt with the struggle to write something that fully captures the story that lives in your mind. You start pressing computer keys, forming sentences,...

Jean-Luc Godard and the French New Wave

Jean-Luc Godard and the French New Wave

Siobhan Qualtire, Managing Editor of Nature & Environment February 2, 2025

Eyes lined with the long walks of the sixties stare back at you through the cinema screen, and what was once a movie is now something more. “New York Herald Tribune! New York Herald Tribune!” is shouted...

Alpine Altitude

Alpine Altitude

Isabella Marler, Creative writer February 2, 2025

Sweet mountain air where thunderclaps clap their hands shake to make the wind blow and tumble down wildflower paths Rich, deep plum among - a sea - of shimmering glimmering grass secretly strewn...

Bob Dylan

The Appeal of Acoustic: On the Surge of Folk Music

Emma Clare Barrasso, Founder & Editor-In-Chief January 18, 2025

It’s almost unavoidable now: hearing the rasp of Zach Bryan from a passing car, or a cover of Hozier’s “Cherry Wine” on your social media platforms. Even the legendary Bob Dylan has seen an uptick,...

Thunder (Only in Her Dreams)

Thunder (Only in Her Dreams)

Isabella Marler, Journalist & Creative Writer January 8, 2025

Heartbeats rushing, manes tangled together, flying down the beach. Skye clung to her horse, arms thrown around his neck, legs hanging over his broad sides. Her heart knocked against his withers, and...

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