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The Absurdity of Revenge
NIVIA Today was the day I did something dangerous. The day I would either die or leave with my bright future ahead of me. The morning sun was shining explicitly…
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Echo Buzz: Dear Mom and Dad: I Am Sorry, I Wasn’t Smart Enough
In the tense silence of the classroom, time stretches thin, each second laden with anticipation. Beads of sweat form on your palms and stomach churns with acid, as the teacher…
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Exploring the Generational Gap between Students and Lecturers
In today’s society, whenever one brings up the topic of the generational gap between the youth and the older generation, they would probably get a funny look or two, getting…
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Terminal Velocity
Balance is second-nature. Will is a hawk, lithe presence peering down from forty feet above. The walkway lies - a gorge, a crevasse, splitting the earth down to the rising…
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Hawthorne Academy
Do not speak unless spoken to. Do not show weakness. Be the best in every aspect. These are just a few amongst the multitude of rules drilled into Maxine and…
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palpable
take me home. to the one i had all my firsts, the cocoon of nostalgia that cradles the remnants of my earliest years. colourful murals scribbled on my parents’ calloused…
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Sepet Sounds
There is a video of me, from when I was maybe two or three – I am wearing a blue dress that drapes a little wide on my body with…
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Sunway Spotlight: Chinese New Year: Red Lanterns, Good Fortune and the Year of the Dragon
It’s that time of the year again—the time when red lanterns adorn the streets, lively music is blasted from speakers, and lion dance troupes grace various venues with their performances,…
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Pixels & Fajitas: A Tale of Growing Up on the Internet and Chili’s
When I was young, young enough for the Internet to have solidified itself into something worth taking up space in our lives and before its unfortunate evolution into a machine…
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Bone Flute
Henry Vaughan placed his two cents on the subject of childhood and penned a wistful melody of the loss of heavenly innocence and the burning desire to regain it once…