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How to Succeed in High School: A Detailed Guide
As a senior who is now in her final stretch of high school, I recently had the idea that I should impart some wisdom upon the new freshmen. After all, the last four years have left me with a great deal of knowledge on the ordeal, which I feel would benefit those who are beginning […]
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The first time it happened, she thought it was a migraine. She was sitting at the kitchen table, a cold glass of water sweating onto the wood, when something behind her eyes twitched. Not pain, exactly—more like pressure. A slow, deliberate push from the inside of her skull, as if something had curled up in […]
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My biggest dream in life is to become a master at quantum mechanics and particle physics, because then I could look at you and say that I think I’d make a better writer. I’m telling you this so I can write about telling you later, forever holding the hope that it would make you want […]
MoreAn Ode to the Heart
Cor. Kardia. Corazon. Coeur. 心. दिल. The heart. I feel you first in my chest when I wake too early, ribs tight, pulse uneven, thrumming like a trapped bird. Heart (n.): a hollow muscular organ of vertebrate animals that, by its rhythmic contraction, acts as a force pump maintaining the circulation of blood. Merriam-Webster says […]
MoreLove Through My Glasses (The Roar’s 2026 Spring Writing Contest – K-2 Runner Up)
By: Ayden Zhong If you ask what love is, just wait! Let me put on my glasses first! Love is orange, like the goldfish in my pocket, I save for my brother Byron the great! Love is Mickey’s ears on my mommy’s bed. But when Byron steals my spot, my face turns red! Love is […]
MoreThe Roar’s 2026 Spring Writing Contest – K-2 Winner
By: Mevan Watugala Love is colorless. You can feel love, but you can never see it as sparkles coming out of the heart, and even when you make the love strong you still won’t see it sparkling in colors coming out from the heart. You can see love in actions, you can hear love in […]
MoreThe Roar’s 2026 Spring Writing Contest – 3-5 Runner Up
By: Kimberly Zhou If love was a color, it would be yellow. Yellow paints a bright picture of warmth, light, and joy. Unlike the madness of red and the softness of pink, yellow is stunning and uplifting. Yellow is the kind that makes you have a smile on your face without even realizing. Yellow represents […]
MoreThe Roar’s 2026 Spring Writing Contest – 3-5 Winner
By: Maira Bakshi A color can hold more than one feeling It might show sadness or a heart slowly healing You can be mean and violent like the wild blue waves yet you can be calm and peaceful and wise like the brave You can be sad—loving, passionate, and courageous but you still have the […]
MoreStalemate (The Roar’s 2026 Spring Writing Contest – MS Runner-Up)
By: Tara Kannan They had been playing the same game for eight months. Not continuously. Just… paused. The board sat on Elle’s desk, still between textbooks and an expiring fern fading into obscurity. Shades of gray dust gently covered the black squares. A white knight had a chip in its mane. A pawn was missing […]
MoreThe Roar’s 2026 Spring Writing Contest – MS Winner
By: Ava Webb A FaceTime never gave her smile justice. The way her smile curved, the sparkle in her eyes, oh, how they glistened at just the perfect angle. I could tell how much effort she put into her hair. She always had the most perfect curls; she would put the perfect amount of hair […]
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