An Internet World

It's with us twentyfour-seven: the internet - to research things for class, to chat with friends, to check the news. But isn't this imaginary world taking over? I came across the novel "Awaken" by Katie Kacwinzky randomly but as I read it, the conflict she describes really got me.

Music: Beauty Queen In Tears

Beauty Queen In Tears

Have you already noticed the small letters on the header of issue one’s layout? “Baby be the class clown, I’ll be the beauty queen in tears,” it says. Have you ever thought about these words? I have. So, what does it mean to you? It reminds me of a scene from a Disney movie, just that in my memory it looks a lot darker than it probably actually was. A school’s gymnasium, empty, the lights off, the windows open. The banners to support the previously playing football team are still there, lying on the tribune, fluttering in the wind. The walls are coming down, a teenager’s life without all the glamour. Or would you rather be the beauty queen in tears?

Adiemus

Fiction: The Marked Letters I

The Marked Letters
Chapter One

Dear Liam;

Don’t think I wanted to write you, because I didn’t. I really, really didn’t mean to write you considering the circumstances, but both of us know it will be necessary sooner or later anyway. There are things that are about more important things than... us. I made a promise to myself that I won’t write a second version of this letter in case the first one goes wrong and I’m neither going to cross out anything. Once, we promised ourselves to be honest to each other, didn’t we? Well, let’s just pretend that things hadn’t change ever since.