Category: Toronto
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Let Yourself Feel, Let Yourself Live
Writer: Monica Lin Editors: Ashley Yeung and Alloe Mak As humans, it is natural for us to be scared of vulnerability, especially when it comes to negative emotions. In order to express feelings that are deep and soulful, we have to be vulnerable—to dig them up from the depths within us and present them like…
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What did you do to us poor girls?
What did you do to us poor girls? Who just wanted to live, who were pinned against each other when we only wanted to love. What did you do to us poor girls? The ghost of your cold hands run through my body and your voice echos through my mind, tarnishing what used to be…
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Sunny Girl
I am hostile by nature
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Sparse Anecdotes From a Bad Ballerina: A Small Retrospective On Fifteen Years of Classical Ballet Training
Smile wide and stand up for yourself. And most of all, love yourself unapologetically, because ballet isn’t going to.
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At Least I’m a Sailor
I’ve fought it off before and so, I know I’ll brave the seas.
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motherhood inherited
The cycle has picked up its pace.
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I Don’t Want to Be a Star Anymore
And in order for Pearl to resonate with viewers, to scare them, she must be like them. And that’s what scares me.
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grief
house parties with strangers, jokes around the pool table, drinking beer as we play cards.
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Unblurring my vision: Stories on death
To this day, I’m still learning about death. This lesson is one that I think I’ll never perfectly understand. A lesson not meant for A+’s.
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Chasing Butterflies
Writer: Erica Phelps Editors: Amy Li and Alloe Mak I sit here with you on the grass, making bouquets with garden flowers, when you begin to tell me a story. “That time in June when we went to the lake, do you remember? We swam in the crisp, cool water, and you screamed when I…
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Oasis
She imagined a hundred things she could do when she saw that woman for the first time, but she didn’t imagine that her hair would be gray.
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One Way Flight
Now, when I think of my dad, I don’t really think of the horseback rider, or pilot, or King of China. I just think of these things. Things that make him human. Things I really love.
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characterization of love
looking at you makes me feel as if i have finally ascended. suddenly, i am all-knowing. contradictions are rectified and questions are answered by the simplicity of your soft breaths.
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Untitled
Shot by Kailey McPherson
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Untitled
Shot by Kailey McPherson
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My Hugs are My Mom’s Food
My hugs are my mom’s food.
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Still Life Painting
The focus of this piece centers around the themes of nostalgia and the fear of growing up.
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bloom
the words that describe the way She’s framed tended with loving affirmations petals age every passing october endless and endless ties of conversation love encapsulated in its seeds of saturation