by Jane Doe At approximately 4:36pm, the lights went out in the New Colossus Supermarket. My shift had started at 4:30, and I had the pleasure of training the new girl, Rochelle, on her first day as a cashier. The power outage came on gradually, first appearing in the form of a broken credit card [...]

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by Kimberly Ruth It was strange. Well, maybe just unexpected. I slowly made my way into the car-jammed parking lot at 2:33 pm the Friday after Thanksgiving, hating myself for choosing to do a story on shopping malls, or America, depending on how you look at it. I was hoping to catch a fight with [...]

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by Jimmy Lam “Jimmy, you think I’m like an American?  Do you think I went out every day to waste away my life fooling around?  I told you, my life was simple.  If someone asked me to explain my life, I could explain it in one sentence: I worked.  There is nothing more to my [...]

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by Andrea Ramprashad “In East Indian families, what children want is not important. East Indian parents use “guilt and shame” to scare children from developing into their own individual. East Indian parents are afraid that their children will pull away from their culture. I feel that all parents should have more faith in their children, [...]

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by Mornier Rich “Competition Time! On Sunday, November 9, at 12:00 pm, approximately 70 gymnasts gathered at The Athletic Club on Staten Island for a local meet. Kayla’s team started the competition with the vault. The first gymnast from her team ran down the runway, flipped over the vault and landed on her feet. Everyone [...]

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by Anonymous “I used to think my dad was some sort of superhero like Batman or Spiderman with these supernatural powers because whenever I was sick he could make me feel cured instantly. I looked up to him until the day when everything began to change.”

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