QLS High School Writing Club
By Audrey Xu, Class of 2028, Winner of “The Roar”‘s Middle School Fall Writing Contest! Granny Smith stands at the counter, shaving the skin off apples harvested fresh from our garden. She’s wearing a gingham apron, which complements my checkered dress. I sit on a wooden stool behind her, watching the speckled peels slowly descend, […]
MoreBy Karen Huang, Class of 2026, Winner of “The Roar”‘s High School Fall Writing Contest! First frost — it’s getting colder these days. The sun refuses to rise; it floats and meanders across the heavens with a thin gray light. You bask in whichever lazy ray of light peeks through; capitalize on the brief warmth, […]
MoreBy James Zhang, The Roar Disclaimer: The following article contains spoilers for I Want to Eat Your Pancreas “I want to eat your pancreas.” Not only the title of a beautiful movie, but also the simple, powerful words Sakura spoke to her best friend, Haruki. Its meaning is simple: in the past if you had […]
MoreBy James Zhang Directing A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick is widely regarded as one of the best filmmakers ever. Even though he only directed thirteen films, his diverse film genres range from war films early in his career to horror and even science fiction. Almost all of his […]
MoreBy Dhruv S. Kannan The year was 2016. Having beat back Bernie Sanders, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was the Democratic Party’s nominee for president in 2016, assuaging the Washington establishment’s fears of another Dukakis-like policy wonk. The establishment reasoned that the popularity of Obama-era policy combined with a seemingly unelectable opponent. This reasoning […]
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