Author: elainec.26

Elaine Chang (11) | Staff Reporter

“Why don’t you go up and clean the attic?” My mother suggests after another stream of my insistent complaints. “You might find something you like.” read more

Elaine Chang (10) | Staff Reporter

Anticipation like nothing else runs prickles along your body, your pulse battering against your skin, trying to escape its confines. read more

Elaine Chang (11) | STAFF REPORTER

Somewhere, deep in the heart of the valley of skyscrapers, buried amongst veils of post-industrialist dust and attempting to be heard amidst sound-stifling concrete deposits, was a low, thumping noise.   read more

Elaine Chang (10) | Staff Reporter

TAROT READINGS & FORTUNE TELLINGS — 

$2/10 minutes

The sign stood, propped up on a potted plant, outside a tiny, four-post tent. As Molly read the hand-lettered, swirly font, she privately thought the material of the tent’s drapes looked just like her grandma’s carpet. Despite her skepticism, she counted her palmful of change: two dollars exactly. Between the overpriced ice cream and the bustling arcade, there wasn’t exactly anywhere else along the boardwalk to spend the money. I suppose there’s no reason not to. She surveyed the dense bead curtain, shrouding the figure inside from a proper view, and stepped through it.   read more

Elaine Chang (10) | STAFF REPORTER

“I’ll send someone to check on the work tomorrow but, just so y’know, for every seed we’ll take six months off your sentence.” read more