The goodbye hike
It was early Saturday morning, and Cree stayed in bed an extra hour. He didn’t want to stop feeling her warmth at his side. Then he was in the kitchen, brewing […]
Letter to a lost love
One Month Ago Treyce Stavinsky is sitting in the hallway directly outside of the vice principal’s office. An officer in a blue uniform has escorted him from his home room. Mr. Patel, the vice principal, is currently talking on the phone with a […]
Dead-end job
I should start with this. I’m Michael and I died about a year and a half ago. I was walking back to work after my lunch break when a moving […]
Endless Embers
There was a time when my brother and I spent entire nights staring upwards, trying to wrap our heads around the idea that those shining balls of fire in the […]
Dual Minds
Yesterday morning I woke up to the sound of my alarm clock blaring at 4 a.m. I crankily threw back the covers and watched through crusty eyes as my feet began […]
Finding normalcy
In a time that's anything but, students seek out the ordinary on campus
It’s no secret campus looks immensely different right now — from class structure, to signs conducting the flow of traffic in and out of classrooms, to thermal scanning inside the […]
Take a load off, Vandals
UI students break down the hobbies they picked up while being cooped up
COVID-19 gave many University of Idaho students a really long, stressful spring break spanning from mid-March to mid-August. Students left campus and were met with quarantine, strange living situations, unemployment, […]
Sunflower Girl
She roots herself in the open meadow, Next to the flowers she loves, Mimicking their amber faces, Turning to the rays of the sun. The tender kiss of the breeze, […]
Color in darkness
Nature brings light to the world in a difficult time
Even while we are quarantined during a pandemic, it’s important to see the light and beauty that still exists in the world. This story was made for that. There’s a […]
Moon Lit Friend
Forever to be lost and alone. I travel down a path I know not where it goes. The trees become more and more bare The ground becomes less and less […]