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The new stadium at USF will bring a new wave of culture to the campus By Paloma Welch and Maysie Rollins, 1st Place News Writing The University of South Florida is building a new stadium at five potential...

Ballad of The Girl Who Watched Her Mother Pull Snapdragons Out of Hydrangea Beds

Ballad of The Girl Who Watched Her Mother Pull Snapdragons Out of Hydrangea Beds

Ava John, Assistant Editor-in-Chief September 28, 2023

When did you learn that being different was so wrong? Was it the woman before you? Or the one before her                   Who told you to be yourself, just to slap the wildflowers from...

The Storm

Kristin Rasmussen, SPHS Student April 27, 2023

It was a beautiful day until the night. When a bolt of lightning hit and people were in fright. People checked the news, nothing was said. The picture of lighting floats through their heads. The...

Poetry Collection: inspired by “homage to my hips”

Paloma Welch, Co-Editor-in-Chief March 23, 2023

Poetry is the most emotional form of literature– providing poets with the opportunity to express their feelings through symbolism, rhythmic measures, metaphors, and more. The IB juniors in Ms. Van Duyne’s...

The Quest for Queso

Kristin Rasmussen, SPHS Student February 21, 2023

On the morning of February 1st, 2023, history was being made. A bright, beautiful red building arose at the corner of 66th Street and Tyrone boulevard. A small but ferocious red devil and words reading...

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Anonymous, SPHS Student February 14, 2023

Sprout, a scrawny, spirited, egg-laying hen couldn’t lay eggs on command anymore. She began a new life like sprouts from the acacia tree. During her journey she escaped the weasel in the Hole of Death,...

Literacy Week: Partly Cloudy Skies

Vidya Bandoo, SPHS Student February 10, 2023

He was going to tell her, his therapist, how he was really feeling. Hes going to be honest and get the help he knows he needs, but once he got there all the confidence and courage, he had built up had...

Literacy Week: Too Small for Conflict

Bryan Fist, SPHS Student February 9, 2023

For Literacy Week, January 23-27, students competed in a short story contest for the chance to win a pair of  Apple Air Pods. Of many deserving submissions, the top honors go to Ava Johns for “Terms...

Literacy Week: Navane Naivety

Gavin Walker, SPHS Student February 8, 2023

The date is April 30th, 1979, I wake up and mute the high pitched shouting radiating from my alarm, I stand up and begin my morning routine. I approach the case divided by the days of the week that contain...

Literacy Week: The Ghost Writer

Mae Denson, SPHS Student February 7, 2023

For Literacy Week, January 23-27, students competed in a short story contest for the chance to win a pair of  Apple Air Pods. Of many deserving submissions, the top honors go to Ava Johns for "Terms of...

First place winner of the Literacy Week Competition, Ava John

Literacy Week: Terms of Agreement

Ava John, SPHS News Editor February 6, 2023

For Literacy Week, January 23-27, students competed in a short story contest for the chance to win a pair of  Apple Air Pods. Of many deserving submissions, the top honors go to Ava Johns for "Terms of...

Before the Morning

Anonymous, SPHS Student November 29, 2022

Mourning our ancestors from ancient lands, Mourning our fallen from the enemy’s hands, Mourning the tribes whose land was taken, Mourning the slaves whose lives were forsaken,   Fighting...

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