this week
triple point [lifestyle]
by Yana Giannoutsos on February 11
My ice powers have lain dormant for years. Yet, when news of last week’s blizzard hit Providence, I could feel them stirring. Knowing that these college years will be among my last unburdened by driveway shoveling, I promised myself I’d make the most of the storm. And so, I laid out my heavy-duty ...
"amazing grace" [A&C]
by Sara Harley on February 11
When my kindergarten class gathered on the rainbow rug each morning to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, I hid between the legs of my pee-wee classmates. Picking at the rhinestones on my friend’s Twinkle Toes sneakers, I watched the neon-green skinny kid squirm until our teacher gave him a red card. ...
triple point [lifestyle]
by Yana Giannoutsos on February 11
My ice powers have lain dormant for years. Yet, when news of last week’s blizzard hit Providence, I could feel them stirring. Knowing that these college years will be among my last unburdened by driveway shoveling, I promised myself I’d make the most of the storm. And so, I laid out my heavy-duty ...
poems i will never publish [A&C]
by Indigo Mudbhary on February 11
Over winter break, I began writing poems. This was unusual behavior for me. As I wrote in one such poem, “When I first met the poem / I remember hating it more than the illness that was in my body at that time / That made all the adults around me act so / Weird.” Specifically, I resent how “Poems ...
power play [narrative]
by Coco Kanders on February 11
Recently, two friends and I put on different variations of 24-inch-long wigs and danced around a basement. Mine was dark at the root, metallic blonde, semi-chic, like Gaga in her meat dress. The wigs were heavy and sliding down our foreheads, shedding strands like molting animals onto the oak-stained ...
ask the question [post-pourri]
by Alayna Chen on February 11
Another year, another lonely Valentine’s Day. I’ll be in my room, watching YouTube and scrolling on Instagram, while all the couples around me reenact the Lady and the Tramp spaghetti scene on Federal Hill. Marriage Pact may not be your style, but that doesn’t mean you have to be alone on the ...
angel in the snow [feature]
by Coco Kanders on February 11
After a deep snowfall, the streets, the cars, the neighborhoods, the trees—really everything—is completely buried. Schools are closed. Time itself is forced into a pause, and by the simple fact of the fall, we are forced into stasis. Snow plows groan awake, narrowing our world to our homes, our ...
goodbye for now, Providence [narrative]
by Ana Vissicchio on February 11
I have always lived in the same place—the same suburban town, the same quiet house, the same small bedroom.
pilates princesses, muscle mommies, cardio bunnies [feature]
by AnnaLise Sandrich on February 4
Unathleticism has a way of creeping into your identity. Growing up, I was surrounded by athletes, most notably my mother, who ran D1 in college and then stumbled into a marathon addiction in post-grad life. Both of my younger brothers are gym rats, with the youngest having run his first marathon at ...
first snow [narrative]
by Samaira Mohunta on February 4
My roommates point at the window. Look outside, they say. It’s all white, everything is white. The snow is coming down fast. But this is not the first snow we wanted, not how we wanted it. I’m sorry you had to leave. And I’m sorry you had to leave the way you did. But where did you go? You didn’t ...
animal crossing and the problem with prestige [A&C]
by Grace Ma on February 4
Like every other teenage girl in the country, I was absolutely obsessed with Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) during the pandemic. I was actually a little late to the game—I got my first Nintendo Switch in late 2020, a few months after ACNH was released, and I had never played Animal Crossing ...
