By Jessica Ricks Jacob, Chrissy, and Marcus made their way to the end of the long, winding street. It was getting late. Houses were starting to turn off their lights indicating that they were done giving out candy. The streets that were busy with kids, and some teenagers, going from door to door in their … Continue reading Academy Classics: Halloween’s End
Academy Classics: Halloween Songs
By John Page "Something at the Door" There was a lady getting ready for bed A-hoo a-hoo a-hoo She went and bumped her head A-hoo a-hoo a-hoo She heard a knock upon the door A-hoo a-hoo a-hoo Then she went across the floor A-hoo a-hoo a-hoo Then she went to open the door A-hoo a-hoo … Continue reading Academy Classics: Halloween Songs
Academy Classics: The League
By Thomas Page Mary Susannah Damon did not expect this to happen. Sure, dabbling in the Dark Arts would cause some closed-minded people to say that she was in league with the Devil himself, but she did not expect the League of Magic meeting at her local civic center to be so intolerant. "What do … Continue reading Academy Classics: The League
The Burrow
By George Keye Prologue Meet our personified friends: Leticia Callaghan, Sean Holtz and Cuco. Leticia Callaghan is a self-contained organism. All the tissues and organs and cells from which the past human body has been composed are self-generated as well as self-adapted and they are considered essential to any environment include the most dare … Continue reading The Burrow
The Broken Door List and Ghost Stories with My Grandpa
By Riley Winchester The Broken Door List I was in the kitchen filling an ice cube tray with water when I heard the front door being ripped apart. I went to the front door and saw it coming undone from the bottom up. On the other side I could see the undoers. There was a … Continue reading The Broken Door List and Ghost Stories with My Grandpa
Heaven’s Window
By George Keyes A MORNING’S HAND Afaaf opened her eyes. It was morning, or was it really the middle of the evening? As she wondered, she turned on the wooden bed, not yet fully awake, a hundred of birds playing in the backward, and those earthly sounds from the ravine reached her as if they … Continue reading Heaven’s Window
Vivacity and Other Poems
By Alex Andy Phuong Vivacity Vivacious Stupendous Spirits high Defy thy sky More than I For the lively Live freely Lift oneself Be thyself No matter what city Or residence Where one resides For the world Is the home of all Ritual Sunrise sunset Sunrise sunset Cyclical cycle Begin again And again Darkness giving way … Continue reading Vivacity and Other Poems
The Dragon
By John Page The cave shakes The dragon wakes Into the sky it flies Tomorrow someone shall die The dragon seeks it’s foe Where it is, it does not know In it’s heart is a burning need To avenge a most foul deed The sky races by as the dragon looks It will get back … Continue reading The Dragon
Where the Water Falls and Other Poems
By John Grey Where the Water Falls It cascades silver and foam from craggy heights down the rutted black face of sheer cliff. On contact with the river, in endless hiss, it replaces itself with more of itself. It cannot tie a shoelace, row a boat or boil a kettle. It merely does what I … Continue reading Where the Water Falls and Other Poems
Superman Loses His Powers
By Dan French He was larger than life. Rippling biceps, which he flexed in front of us. He seemed able to lift anything, solve any task, fix any machine, take care of everything that came his way. He had it all, or seemed to. He delighted in pouring red blood from the dinner platter of … Continue reading Superman Loses His Powers
Academy of the Heart And Mind 