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2024-2025 WRITING
Silence
Style: Prose Statement: This piece highlights how much the short moments even if there are no words can impact someone. The silent...
Annie Zhang
1 min read
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Just a Croissant
Style: Short story Statement: Occasionally, I get spurts of random and unusual ideas in my head. This time, I decided to write my...
Sasha Gupta
3 min read
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Tip-tap
Style: Short story Statement: In the silence of the night, all one can hear is tip-tap, tip-tap. Footsteps tip-tapped through the...

Florence Wei
3 min read
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Me, Myself, and The Friends I think will leave
Style: Short Story Statement: This story was written as a love letter to tired teenage girls everywhere. It is a short story, but it's...

Aneri Shah
2 min read
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Breaking the Barrier
Style: Narrative Statement: In this piece, I wanted to capture the emotional journey of feeling like an outsider and slowly breaking...
Sophia Tsives
5 min read
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How to be an Empath
Style: Narrative/Reflective Statement: Â I originally wrote this piece a few years after my father passed away for an English 11H...
Tanuj Siripurapu
5 min read
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My Cliché Immigration Story
Style : Narrative Statement : In "My Cliché Immigration Story," I draw from my own experiences to illustrate the profound emotions and...

Willis Chung
3 min read
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Empowered Sound
Style : Descriptive Non-fiction Statement: This piece is meant to be a short, unserious criticism of modern-day airpods (& all bluetooth...
Kitty Gechlik
2 min read
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fish
Style: Poetry Statement: Love poetry is not as easy as I thought it was. Fish seemed like a good alternative. it is a desperate thing...

Maya Tian
2 min read
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Light Bulbs
Style: Poetry Statement: About processing relationships that had too much intensity. Looking too long burns your eyes out of their...

Joanne Zhang
1 min read
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what they (don't) see
Style: Poetry Statement: My critique of the Saratoga community. This can be read 3 ways: what they see, what they don’t see, and what...

Aiden Chen
4 min read
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When I give you my heart
Style: Poetry Statement: I wanted to experiment with capitalization and font size to emphasize certain words that parallel the poem's...
Diya Iyer
1 min read
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Bleeding
Trigger Warning: Mentions of self harm Style: Poetry Statement: Body image is not a joke. If I could take scissors, And cut off what I...
Anika Kalia
2 min read
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The Never-Ending Cycle of Art
Style: Poetry Statement: Art is changing around us all the time, yet it is also a constant cycle. The sun kisses the sky with her soft...

Kiana Saadieh
1 min read
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Goldfish
Style: Poetry Statement: Life through the lens of a goldfish who yearns for love. I remember the day you picked me up from the carnival....

Florence Wei
1 min read
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descending flight in san jose
Style: Poetry Statement: This was written impulsively while, as you could guess, I was waiting for the plane to land flying back home....
Kat Aldrete
1 min read
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On the Eve of Your Rebirth
Style: Poetry Statement: This poem is an ode to human longing. The longing of a trans person for a new body, the longing of an...

Jex Popov
1 min read
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