QLS High School Writing Club
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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 […]
MoreBy: 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 […]
MoreI do not feel. This morning, a classmate told a joke. The table burst into laughter. I laughed too—the sound slipped out easily. But inside? Nothing. Just the awareness that laughter was the appropriate response, like the way a vending machine knows what snack to drop when a button is pressed. No matter how immaculate […]
MoreSometimes, the idea of discussion is simply useless. There are people who use logical fallacies. There are people who refuse to believe the points which you present no matter how much reasoning or evidence you give. What’s the point of reasoning with them if the end result is already predetermined—that they’ll just continue living inside […]
MoreSegment 1, Section 1 – The Abyssal Depths Whenever I look into the mirror, I cannot recognize myself. This face does not belong to me. And there is also a headache and constant fog in my brain. Just going through my day and existing makes my head hurt as if it has been stabbed by […]
MoreYour surroundings are covered in darkness. There is a soft pink and white light in the distance, and you approach it. A soft voice belonging to the holder of the light greets you. Welcome, reader, to my realm. Allow me to share with you some stories. A few of them are about the very beginning […]
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