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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...

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...

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...

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...

Echoes of Us

Echoes of Us

Isabella Marler, Journalist & Creative Writer November 10, 2024

  Windows open                                                                                                       soft...

Think This Out

Think This Out

Lauren Cummings, Journalist & Creative Writer October 27, 2024

Seeing Caroline smile was like seeing an eclipse; beautiful, but rare. The eighteen-year-old had known nothing but tragedy through her preteen and teen years. There was no reason to believe her luck would...

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