When they marched the prisoners in, they told them to dance. No one did. They stood still as stone, too weak to move a muscle,…
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The Experiment
Content Warning: Gore, death, suicide. He came to us suddenly, in a purple blaze of glory and with promises of salvation. He left just as…
German Foreign Exchange Students Come to IHS
Leading up to October 10, classrooms and households prepared to welcome newcomers to Ithaca as excited chatter passed among IHS students: “The Germans are coming!”…
Waterworks
I curse the divine being who invented the duct: Rome’s revered creation, Aztec architectural marvels which became the lead-lined pipes in elementary school fountains which…
Tashlich
Release Lay yourself down in the river and let the rocks chip away at your soul and it will not be a sharp thing, but…
Every Time It Rains
I am beckoned. It comes to me, rushing, A noise of perfect, pattering percussion To match my own racing, pounding heart. They say those days…
Water Balloon
Pick it up, Feel the sagging weight under your fingers, Drop it. It hits the ground, flexes, bounces, but doesn’t pop. Carefully pry it open,…
A Perfectly Normal Life
You pull up to court in a bright red Maserati. You bought it last weekend, and you were quite proud of it until it got…
The Station
Allison didn’t like this place. The tiles were strewn roughly beneath her feet, almost parallel with each other but not quite. She didn’t like the…
Latin and Mandarin Classes Cut from ICSD’s Course Offerings
In late May, members of the Board of Education had to rethink the ICSD budget, following the veto of the originally proposed budget in an…
A Dialogue
“Let’s play two truths and a lie.” “Excuse me?” “Let’s play two truths and a lie!” “Do I know you?” “No, but you will if…