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The sun went missing today. There were no rivers of blood or plagues of locusts, first-born children did not fall ill, nor did frogs descend on the cities. It was quiet. The black hole stood stagnant. We could only watch and wait. My friend Joseph says the aliens are coming. That they will treat youContinue reading “Boyscout Camping Trip on the Eve of the Apocalypse”

Mariana Colicchio is currently a senior and NEHS President at Pembroke Pines Charter High School. She specializes in oil painting and focuses on portraits. She is a past winner of the Scholastic Art Awards and won 1st place in the 2018 Pines Art Fest Student Competition.

The sky is ash-blackened and heavy with smoke, making each inhale a gasping effort into the strip of cloth pressed to my mouth. The suffocating scent of gasoline still chokes the air as I stumble over the cracked earth and into a small clearing on the boardwalk. From here, I can see the dark lineContinue reading “Oil Spill”

Marcella Lesmes is a junior at PPCHS and enjoys making art. She has been doing art for about 7 years. Although she usually uses acrylic paints, in this piece she went with watercolors and pens.

*A sonnet is a fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter and following a particular rhyme scheme typically dictated by either Italian or English form rules. This sonnet qualifies as an English sonnet. I amputated my arm yesterday Blood relentlessly spilled out of the wound I watched it pour and I began to pray MaybeContinue reading “Adiela”

In The Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood’s use of the fairytale motif as a framework for the novel critiques our innate desire for archetypes, exposes the innocuous nature of oppression, and highlights the flaws of cruel optimism. Atwood subverts the innocence of predictable, archetypal tropes in fairy tales to call into question the concept of a hero.Continue reading “The Collective Unconscious, The Death Drive, and Cruel Optimism: Pessimism as a Framework for 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒅’𝒔 𝑻𝒂𝒍𝒆”

The world teaches us that we must fit into a box. What do you do when you can’t fit into all the many boxes? What do you do when every action you take goes against what society deems as normal? What do you do when your very skin goes against what the world sees asContinue reading “The Box”

 Carolina Calonge has been in NEHS for two years now and enjoys reading historical fiction. She usually uses physical mediums such as ink to create her art, but created this piece digitally as cover art for the atala’s inaugural issue.