QLS High School Writing Club
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 […]
MoreBy: 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 […]
MoreBy: 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 […]
MoreBy: 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 […]
MoreBy: 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 […]
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 […]
MoreBy: 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 […]
MoreBy: Tianxin Liu You held stolen moments under the stars Built a fire when her heart was frozen Gripped her hand like a lifeline in the dark But the roses you bought her have wilted Now you’re screaming, fighting, crying, praying The writing on the wall drips with dark blood Her ghost haunts you: begging, […]
MoreOn March 30, a Manhattan grand jury took the unprecedented step of indicting Donald Trump for 30 counts of business fraud stemming from a widely publicized hush money payment scandal in 2016. That involves Trump aide Michael Cohen paying $130,000 to actress Stormy Daniels to prevent her from divulging potentially damaging information about her relationship […]
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