Horizons 2016

Horizons A rt

an d

L i t era ry

Ma ga zi ne

Volume 51

2016

Cover photo by MaryLiz Lentz String lights graphic courtesy of Montana Rucobo from Noun Project

Horizons Art and Literary Magazine is a publication produced by Norfolk Collegiate students. Norfolk Collegiate is located at 7336 Granby Street, Norfolk, VA, 23505. The magazine editor can be contacted via Mrs. Judy Davis at (757) 480-2885, or via email at jdavis@norfolkcollegiate.org. Horizons is typeset in Candara and designed with Adobe Indesign CS5 on computers runnning Windows 7.

Horiz ons Ar t

an d

L i t e r a r y

Volume 51

Ma ga z i ne

Editor-in-Chief Catherine Kim

A Publication of Norfolk Collegiate

Associate Editor

Faculty Adviser

Clare Harbin

Mrs. Judy Davis

Section Editors

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Ta b l e o f C o n t e n t s Rigging – Darden Purrington ................................................................................................................................1 Hanging On – MaryLiz Lentz ..............................................................................................................................1,2 Done? – Bailey Jones .............................................................................................................................................3 The Life of the Withheld – PK Dawson ............................................................................................................... 4 Dead Leaves – Sophie Zhou ..................................................................................................................................5 What We Don’t Notice – Logan Michelon ...........................................................................................................6 Street of the Greedy – Sophie Zhou .................................................................................................................7, 8 The Metro – Gin Chan ........................................................................................................................................7,8 Drowning for Air – Cecilia Innis ............................................................................................................................9 Peek of Light – MaryLiz Lentz ........................................................................................................................9, 10 Concrete Sidewalks, Concrete People – Haley Bartel ........................................................................................11 Streets of New York – Gin Chan ..........................................................................................................................12 Into the Unknown – Logan Michelon ............................................................................................................13,14 Forever Love – Claudia King ................................................................................................................................14 Ocean Blue – Milan Brooks .................................................................................................................................15 The Calm Before the Storm – Gates Breeden ....................................................................................................16 I Dreamed a Dream – Grace Georgo ...................................................................................................................17 The Other Face – Gin Chan ..................................................................................................................................18 Her Eyes – Darden Purrington ............................................................................................................................19 Dazed and Confused – MaryLiz Lentz ..........................................................................................................19, 20 Distant Memories – Clare Harbin ........................................................................................................................21 Starry Night – Gin Chan ..................................................................................................................................21, 22 Ready for Anything – James Cooper ..................................................................................................................23 And Then He Sings – Aaron Boutwell ................................................................................................................24 The Summer Night Sunsets – Brett Goldman ....................................................................................................25 ii . Horizons Art and Literary Magazine 2016

Radiance – Tyler Berg .........................................................................................................................................26 Ocean Mystique – Brooke Walthall ....................................................................................................................27 The Weight of Light – Catherine Kim ............................................................................................................27, 28 The Greatest Sunset – Mia Mathas ....................................................................................................................30 Fire Sun – Gabby Allen ...................................................................................................................................29,30 A Day at Nationals Park – Ryan Moninger ..........................................................................................................31 Winning Shot – Ashby Larkin .........................................................................................................................31, 32 Natural Strength – Ellie Maus .............................................................................................................................33 Deep Blue Seas – Catherine Kim ...................................................................................................................33, 34 It Is a Beauteous Morning – Carson McMonagle ..............................................................................................35 Beauty Lies – Milan Brooks .................................................................................................................................36 Regatta Day – Sarah Ellen Smith ..................................................................................................................37, 38 Line of Boats – Catherine Kim ......................................................................................................................37, 38 Sticky Smiles – Clare Harbin .........................................................................................................................39, 40 Sunny Dayz – Sarah Kirven ...........................................................................................................................39, 40 As the Flowers Dance – Maddie Foster ..............................................................................................................41 Sun Flower – Gabby Allen ..............................................................................................................................41, 42 Gracefully Falling – Elena Adams ........................................................................................................................43 Sparkles and Ice – MaryLiz Lentz .................................................................................................................43, 44 Amalfi Coast – Ashley Obermeyer ................................................................................................................45, 46 Paradise City – Bailey Holmes Spencer ........................................................................................................45, 46 The Story Lies Within – PK Dawson .............................................................................................................47, 48 Speechless – Catherine Kim .........................................................................................................................49, 50 Scattered Beauty – MaryLiz Lentz ...............................................................................................................49, 50 Index ...............................................................................................................................................................51, 52 Letter from the Editor-in-Chief ...........................................................................................................................53 Happy New Year – Gin Chan ...............................................................................................................................54 Horizons Art and Literary Magazine 2016 . iii

Rigging Darden Purrington Shackled by lines, Held up by sand, Hanging, not falling, Above solid land.

I looked for a reason, And heard a small crack, The sky gridded metal, The floor fading black...

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Hanging On MaryLiz Lentz Horizons Art and Literary Magazine 2016 . 2

Done?

Bailey Jones Everyone is telling me that I should be done I don’t know if I want to be I don’t know how to be But I do know that this isn’t healthy The crying The endless disappointment All I do is wonder If you started thinking If you’re okay If today’s a better day It never is…

For either of us Everyone’s talking at me I’ve done all I can You’re too long gone You can’t be helped That’s what they say I just don’t believe it You make me happier than most But you hurt me more than anyone But if I leave, Am I any better than her?

I really want to help you I’m just tired of the pain

So you tell me Should I be done?

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The Life of the Withheld

PK Dawson

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Dead Leaves

Sophie Zhou

It is the indistinct emotion, gloom but great, Which showed up when Lady Fall dance with Splendor and elegance. Leaves lost pith, Then revolve and fall They’ve been debilitate.

Petulant wind engulfs thousands of leaves like cate.

Listen! The graceful ditty is performed.

Red and yellow—delicate pictures formed.

The art of nature sentimentally.

Dear leaves! Dear mom! Your endless love for Earth.

Though your vita’s fragile and rather short, Your real values are not useless or weak.

You die for recurring cycles for new birth, Then you start deposing yourself to make peak— Peak of the new leaves that we’ve all sought.

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What We Don’t Notice

Logan Michelon

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Street of the Greedy

Sophie Zhou

It is a typical Friday night on Narrow-Minded Boulevard. The neon lights of the Saki A Go Go are bright and blurry. James and Kali have just arrived at this central street of Gray Town—just like its name, even in the summer, people cannot see clearly due to the fog which always envelopes the town. The pub is full of people. The pale waitress with bleached blonde hair has huge black circles around her eyes—she is trying her best to get through the busy crowd.

“Here is your drink, sir,” says the waitress, with a weak smile on her face.

“Thank you,” James replies. He stares at her back for a long time until she vanishes into the 7 . Horizons Art and Literary Magazine 2016

The Metro

Gin Chan

crowd. Then he reaches down for something that the poor waitress has dropped.

“Seems like we are having lucky night.”

As he waves his hand, his girlfriend can see a Benny smiling at her.

On their way back to their hotel, they look for some place to spend their found money. At that moment, they see a fancy teapot from a street vender. As they start to examine the teapot, Kali whispers to James, “This really is our lucky night. This poor old man is blind. We could just take whatever we want, and he won’t even notice.”

They look at each other, pick up several things that seem valuable and start to leave without saying a word.

The blind man is still sitting in the wind with thin clothes, all by himself. Slowly, he opens his mouth to speak.

“5 years ago, I was as greedy as you. I have been stuck in this town for what I did. Now finally someone can replace me.”

He smiles.

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Drowning For Air Cecilia Innis

Wind whispers through the black, hushed night.

Through opaque night it races to nowhere. Like nature’s pen it writes and whirls and wonders why it brews like the depths of a troubled mind.

How hopeless. For calm it cannot find.

The cold abyss in my chest beats, thump, thumping to an unreal tune.

No meaning holds these blank repeats, yet wispy winds through me are strewn.

Strapped me to life, stuck me to fate For my through my soul wind reverberates.

If nights be stale for air is still and will to breathe may steady shrink, hopes for eternal rest are shrill, my mind can’t calm, therefore I think that days are dark and filled with dread, plagued thoughts entangled into thread.

The wind whispers in mine own ear, and from its voice I cannot flee.

The river rushes all too clear my being with me won’t agree.

I’m sinking in my own despair, dying to live, drowning for air.

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Peek of Light MaryLiz Lentz Horizons Art and Literary Magazine 2016 . 10

Concrete Sidewalks, Concrete People Haley Bartel In the city that never sleeps, Everyone has someplace to go.

Hidden are the secrets the city keeps, Most of which we will never know.

People you brush past on the street All have a demon they need to beat.

Nature breathes out foggy clouds of smoke.

They fill throughout the city like A park would smell of pine or oak.

A man passes by on his bike, Those on foot part like the red sea.

O, how does one compare to thee?

People, they walk from place to place In a hurry, all running late.

So big and yet, so little space To move, to live, to find your fate.

It all seems so big from a glance, But from above you look like ants.

Strong, wonderful winds, wisps of hair Fly around, getting in the way.

Bundled up, but your face is bare.

You’ve never seen a colder day.

When in the city, life is fast.

Your days of calmness long since past.

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Streets of New York

Gin Chan

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Into The Unknown

Logan Michelon

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Forever Love Claudia King Dear My Love, I know you’re there No thoughts, no words Just a stare Speak to me My thoughtless heart My other half Death did us part Speak to me Lets dance, lets sway, Our hands never Locked, night or day My heart so cold Like Boreas night Speak to me My soul, my light I know how To speak to you Follow me Love, you know who

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Ocean Blue Milan Brooks Make me feel small and do cover me in thine swells of blue ferment.

Carve lands as I often wonder what waves do after torment’n thine shores and meeting in the summer storms. Breaking the life you once bent.

The sharp breeze of salt-lined ether Tethers me to a land of sand.

Am I free? May I soar? Feathers like one of God’s angels? Thou stands for cleansing one’s sins in peace.

An ocean vast, a sea lowland.

Captivate me with thine cold coast.

Plunging into your depths, my life would end. A watery grip most unfortunately suffer rife.

When I leave you, now a new ghost.

Plunging into your depths with strife.

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The Calm Before the Storm Gates Breeden Horizons Art and Literary Magazine 2016 . 16

I Dreamed a Dream Grace Georgo I dreamed a dream that could not be, to love and live, so calm and free.

But life has killed the dream I made, when I was young and unafraid.

Once I wished on the stars at night, that God would bless my shining light, Which lay ahead for me to chase through the wonders of outer space.

I dared to dream that every day would be the same as yesterday.

But life goes on and so do dreams, Because life is not all it seems.

I had a dream to reach the stars from earth to moon and onto Mars but some dreams are not meant to be like those that lack reality.

Like a flower that wilts and dies, a dream exists till others die.

And when a dream cannot come true, hope is lost and life is too.

I dreamed a dream that could not be, no life, no hope, no striving to be more than what my life has deemed, for life has killed the dream I dreamed.

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The Other Face

Gin Chan

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Her Eyes Darden Purrington

They were a grey-green unseeing color with an astounding golden-brown ring around the

center. Whenever you met them, they pierced your skull and invaded your soul, cutting away all fallacies and seeing straight into your deepest thoughts and desires...

They were typically stormy and glossed over, and it was not often that they paid much attention to their surroundings at all. Sometimes it seemed as if they were searching for something inside their owner’s head, something that, coincidentally, could never be found. Come to think of it, the only outward manifestation of them ever paying attention came in the form of how jumpy the owner was.

They themselves bounced around in a seemingly random order from item to item or thought to thought without a known rhyme or reason, ever analyzing yet never really connecting.

Well, not quite never. Occasionally, when, as if by some miracle, the clouds parted and they looked into yours, and they were yelling, screaming even. The emotion was bright and heavy and vibrant and charged with electricity all at the same time. It was so strong that for a second you thought it might knock you off your feet. But then, as soon as you saw it, it was gone and the quiet, stormy eyes were back and you had to wonder if it was ever really there to start...

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Dazed and Confused

MaryLiz Lentz

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Distant Memories

Clare Harbin

Rewind—The path, the shell, the moss. All distant memories from once upon a summer. The intended time with the intended person. Maybe if I say the right word, think of the right memory, it will show itself again. Or maybe it was only destined for that summer haze...one that seems so long ago. I can still see her laugh lines, her face full of wonder as she noticed the break in the trees.

She was careful to walk over every spiderweb, So not to disturb even the littlest of friends. The lush green moss under our feet as we bounded over fallen trees and ascended the path. All while the Sun hit her ringlet curls shining as bright as her smile.

Stop—The memory freezes in place as she begins to tap her watch. Time is up. My soul is pulled towards the path, longing to find out where it leads.

Play—We turn back, my face in protest, placing a shell at the base of the path, marking its opening, and leaving with it a small piece of my soul.

Fast Forward—I sometimes wonder if the path ever existed, whether it was merely a figment of my imagination Or maybe it just showed itself to us because the time was right. The piece of my soul still lies with that moss, that shell, that path. It is frozen in the memory, forever. And I’m okay, even if I never get it back.

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Starry Night

Gin Chan

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Ready for Anything James Cooper

There are sensations of the wind And vibrations of heat That you can only feel where I rest my feet: A warm day, Where the sun is shining bright, And the leaves On the trees Cascade down to the soggy ground.

The scorching autumn Turns into a scorching winter and then the Blazing heat transforms into a snowstorm Rushing, hustling through the streets And driveways.

Kids are screaming, “SCHOOL’S OUT.” When they see the white flakes falling from the Sky of the New Year they All want to be here.

And now the storm persists on the first day of Spring brings us cold winds and chilly showers Like Mother Nature forgot to pay the Landlord for the hot water.

Only here does the winter meet the spring and the Summer meets the autumn.

The Virginia weather keeps me

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Guessing and Ready for anything.

And Then He Sings Aaron Boutwell Horizons Art and Literary Magazine 2016 . 24

The Summer Night Sunsets Brett Goldman

The summer night sunsets, Make me have no regrets.

The water glows brightly, Like the sun covered lightly.

Orange and red showing, Water oceangoing And sand in between the toes.

The moment in time froze, The warm weather sunsets, The summer night sunsets.

The summer night sunsets.

The sky sings like quartets.

The day is ending now.

The sun is falling, wow!

The colors are vibrant.

Stars are in alignment.

It’s wonderful somehow.

The night will be calm now.

Winter, people forget The summer night sunset.

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Radiance Tyler Berg

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Ocean Mystique Brooke Walthall As night becomes day, the sun casts her rays over the quiet of the beach. Dark sky becoming pink, waking sea gulls that fly, spreading their laughter in the sky. The spray of the ocean hit the sand and seeks play as the deep water sparkles like white jewels.

Soft sand warms from the sun, no longer cool.

As life begins people enjoy the day as King Neptune did, ruler of the sea.

They frolic and play in the surf and sand while they watch for fish and sea creatures galore as King Neptune did, ruler of the sea.

To watch the mystique of the ocean floor And discover hidden beauties of the land.

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The Weight of Light Catherine Kim Horizons Art and Literary Magazine 2016 . 28

Fire Sun Gabby Allen

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The Greatest Sunset Mia Mathas

Looking up to see the sunset, The colors shine causing a haze.

People watching like we just met, The millions of different rays, This view will not make me upset, Santorini, Greece has its ways.

The thought of this place makes me cry, Thinking of the bright blue water shines, The thought of this place makes me fly.

I feel like this place is all mine: Why would I want to say goodbye?

Maybe God will give you a sign.

God can show you the way to live.

He can help guide you through the bad, God will show you that you are alive; It will make you just want to thrive.

Wow isn’t this poem so rad!

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A Day at Nationals Park Ryan Moninger

It’s a sunny day at Nationals Park.

Sweat gleaming off the backs of the players.

Fans cheering in the multiple layers of the jumping park with a guy named Clark.

The music starts and gives the crowd a spark.

Bryce Harper the God-like team player can see the ball like a soothsayer.

He hits that ball with a mighty fine arc.

It seems like it goes all the way to the moon.

The ball screeching as it cuts through the wind.

It’s about to hit that flying balloon.

The balls now coming down in a streamline.

The crowd starts to cheer on this great afternoon.

It’s a homerun right next to the foul line!

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Winning Shot Ashby Larkin

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Natural Strength Ellie Maus Sitting by the water, air salty and sweet, Warmth from the sun radiates onto me.

Without a sound, it sinks beneath the sea.

Sitting by the water, waves and I meet.

I stare past the waves, to the horizon.

The blue stretches till it touches the stars With power and grace far stronger than our Gizmos and gadgets. Water always wins.

The ocean will watch humans come and go.

Sitting by the water, I send it dreams.

It will never cease to make its rhythm.

Stronger than a million men, we know Crashing with limitless repetition.

Sitting by the water, blue diamonds gleam.

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Deep Blue Seas Catherine Kim

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It Is a Beauteous Morning Carson McMonagle There is nothing like a Cabo sunrise.

The majestic sun is the color of Pink and orange, the colors I love, The sound of boom boom boom lies; Waves to a state of hearing Poseidon’s cries, Look down and see the reflection of above.

Dear God! The place is so quiet you can hear a dove; The sun blazing and gleaming in the skies, The earth has much more to share. I walk down The path to the sand, the houses asleep.

I reach the still, cold sand in my night gown.

I start to feel like I am sinking deep; Wondering what is going on I look around.

Bam! I am now waking up from a deep sleep.

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Beauty Lies Milan Brooks

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Regatta Day Sarah Ellen Smith

On regatta Day, the wind blow.

Will we capsize?

Just nature knows.

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Rough river, Waves wiping like A vicious storm.

We’ll need to hike.

Line of Boats Catherine Kim

We race now.

Prepare to start.

Avoiding risk, Try to play smart.

Rounding marks, Starboard and port.

Tacking, gybing, Hopping on thwarts!

Finish soon.

We have first place.

Finish soon.

We won the race!

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Sticky Smiles Clare Harbin I want to grow an orchard with you; smiling wide, all the crevices of our faces filling with joy, as we plant the tree seedlings in the ground, our knees covered with dirt.

I want to tend to cows as much as I do sunflowers, to have the golden petals lying in a crystal vase by your favorite window.

Peach eating mid­day by the spring just down the path, jumping in and swimming, all while holding hands and stealing kisses under the Sun’s warm rays.

I want endless exploring, our adventurous hearts and curious minds never losing their fire, never ceasing to be in existence.

I want nights of laughter that never seem to end. Cross­country road trips, only stopping to pick wild flowers from the same field we picnic on, lying on the blanket we stow in the back of our car.

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I want to climb trees with you, forage for berries with you, raise children with you. Our children will have my kind soul, your caring hands, our endless laughter, your smile and sparkling eyes. They will have our love for nature and our endless wonder­always.

I want to grow old with you, snuggled up on our porch watching the sunset. And when I’m dying, I want you to take me to our orchard right at dawn; the same one where we started our lives together, so that we can share a bite out of the fruit we have loved for all these years.

We frame each other’s sticky smiles in our minds, peach juice dribbling down our chins, tears falling down our faces. Fingers intertwined, you kiss my forehead as I watch the sunrise one last time.

Sunny Dayz

Sarah Kirven

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As the Flowers Dance Maddie Foster

The flowers sway, like they’re dancing,

In the meadow they bloom so brightly.

The daffodils look like they’re prancing.

Even though the wind touches them lightly, The wind and rain whistle and can sing.

Purple flowers are almost unsightly.

The flowers sway, like they’re dancing,

Fluorescent flowers spin in the wind.

New colors have been enhanced,

Beautiful colors have combined With flowers dancing, no one is glancing

What is happening with mankind?

Look at the dancing flowers now,

Admire the swirling shade.

The wind makes the plants take a bow.

Bees come and pollinate, they raid Before the colors fade.

Quick, come enjoy the colors.

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Sun Flower

Gabby Allen

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Gracefully Falling Elena Adams Flying down the open hill of white snow

I’m a bird racing to be the first there.

I try to stop: slipping, speeding, I know

I’ll fall as my face runs through the cold air.

My hands dig into the snow as I stand,

Looking down at the people small like ants, Too far to see, too far gone on the land,

Staring at the hills, staring at the slants.

The trees behind me dancing their hearts out.

The harsh, cold wind brushes against my back, Hey you, swooshing and sliding all about

The slope. You fall at the bottom and smack Into the fence. People laugh at your fall.

I go to help you up and you stand tall.

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Sparkles and Ice

MaryLiz Lentz

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Amalfi Coast

Ashley Obermeyer Its clear brisk water dances over ruins–

of tarnished greys and pebbling shades of white.

Trekking up steep eroded steps with June’s soft Mediterranean breeze so light.

Ripe yellow fruits decorate its broad coast.

Sour sweetened by rays cast from the sun makes Amalfi’s limoncello they boast.

Glass bottles line markets where children run.

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I look down to see the far heights we’ve hiked.

The miles up the mountainous cliffs we’ve climbed.

It’s deep past has made it so very liked and breathtaking views cause lost track of time.

I’ll never forget the Amalfi Coast.

Impressions it left I recall the most.

Paradise City

Bailey Holmes Spencer

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The Story Lies Within PK Dawson

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Speechless

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Catherine Kim

he sat across from him with her legs crossed, waiting for him to move. Finally his lids fluttered open and revealed his blue, blue eyes, which were like the calm before the storm. He was like the calm before the storm: quiet, composed, and reserved; yet she knew a storm was brewing underneath his gentle façade. So she lay low, letting the waves engulf her as to not disrupt the tide.

They sat there in silence, but they were comfortable with each other’s silence. It was truly a blessing to be able to soak up each other’s company without any forced small talk. That certain moment was a little different, though. Something in the air made her body shake and tongue tingle. The silence was getting louder and louder and louder, until it was ringing in her ears. It was deafening. She had to fill it with her voice or surely her eardrums would explode.

She wrecked her mind, trying to think of something to say, but the words just wouldn’t form in her mouth. Her mind was filled with ideas and emotions, but she couldn’t quite convert them to words.

Fragments of ideas were there: hints of love, a glimpse of tenderness, a peek of concern. But whenever she tried to grasp onto the ideas, they slipped from her fingertips, as if they were taunting her.

Without total understanding of the ideas, she wasn’t quite sure what they meant. Love. Did she mean to tell him she loved him? Did she mean to tell him that she did not love him? Did she mean to tell him that love is just a concept made by man to chain his lover? She wasn’t quite sure. All she knew was that she could no longer speak, and the silence wasn’t getting any quieter.

“Do you have something to say?”

He could tell something was wrong with her by the way her eyes darted and her mouth opened and closed like a fish frantically gapping for air. She tried to say something, anything, but she couldn’t push the air past her vocal chords. She bore her eyes into his, so he could at least read her face. “I can’t speak,” she hoped her face said. She hoped the confusion overflew from her tear ducts and left blotchy red marks on her face.

“Woman, say something.”

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Scattered Beauty MaryLiz Lentz

She could see the storm growing in his eyes. The waves were crashing against the walls, threatening to break the carefully built façade in seconds. His eyes, which were usually blue like the Amalfi Coast, were a thunderous grey. She frantically wracked through her mind, trying to fish out any words. But the countless fragments in her head that had been at a tauntingly close distance from her fingertips were now gone. There was nothing for her to grasp on to, no words to be formed. Her mind was blank, and she was alone. Complete and utter isolation.

“Darn it, you’re freaking me out!”

His fist pounded against the wooden table that stood between the two. If there was only a way for her to tell him that she could just not speak. If she could, she would write him a 10-page paper on how she felt at the moment, but she couldn’t. She couldn’t even manage to extract a single word from her mind. She could not talk. She could not think. When she looked at the room around her, her mind recognized the objects but could not process any further. It was like taking a picture without having it interpreted. She saw his face but could not think past the fact that his eyes were blue, his hair was dark, and his mouth delicate.

“What are you thinking right now?”

All of a sudden the storm died. He whispered with a small and shaky voice at a level only someone directly next to his mouth would be able to hear. As he waited for her answer, his muscles tensed up as if he anticipated her answer to be a blow in the guts. The stormy water was back to its peaceful state, but it was much darker and deeper. She didn’t like the gloomy sea. Her mind was still completely hollow, but there was one sentence triggered by the insecurity in his eyes.

“Nothing. I was thinking about nothing.”

It was a truth within a lie. She knew it, he knew it but neither cared. His tense shoulders relaxed as he walked over to her and drew her into a hug. She dug into his arms, wondering if the words would ever come back to her.

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Index

Adams, Elena – Gracefully Falling............................................................................................................................ 43 Allen, Gabby – Fire Sun................................................................................................................................................ 29, 30 Sun Flower ............................................................................................................................................41, 42

B

Bartel, Haley – Concrete Sidewalks, Concrete People............................................................................................... 11 Berg, Tyler – Radiance............................................................................................................................................ 26 Boutwell, Aaron – And Then He Sings..................................................................................................................... 24 Breeden, Gates – The Calm Before the Storm.......................................................................................................... 16 Brooks, Milan –

Ocean Blue................................................................................................................................................. 15

Beauty Lies................................................................................................................................................ 36

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Chan, Gin – The Metro................................................................................................................................................. 7,8 Streets of New York.................................................................................................................................... 12 The Other Face........................................................................................................................................... 18 Starry Night........................................................................................................................................... 21, 22 Happy New Year....................................................................................................................................... 54 Cooper, James – Ready for Anything...................................................................................................................... 23

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Dawson, PK –

The Life of the Withheld............................................................................................................................... 4

The Story Lies Within............................................................................................................................ 47, 48

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Foster, Maddie – As the Flowers Dance................................................................................................................... 41

G

Georgo, Grace – I Dreamed a Dream....................................................................................................................... 17 Goldman, Brett – The Summer Night Sunsets.......................................................................................................... 25

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Harbin, Clare – Distant Memories.......................................................................................................................................... 21 Sticky Smiles............................................................................................................................................. 39, 40 Holmes Spencer, Bailey – Paradise City............................................................................................................. 45, 46

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Innis, Cecilia – Drowning for Air................................................................................................................................ 9

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Jones, Bailey – Done?............................................................................................................................................... 3

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Kim, Catherine –

The Weight of Light............................................................................................................................... 27, 28 Deep Blue Seas..................................................................................................................................... 33, 34

Line of Boats........................................................................................................................................ 37, 38 Speechless........................................................................................................................................... 49, 50 King, Claudia – Forever Love................................................................................................................................... 14 Kirven, Sarah – Sunny Dayz............................................................................................................................... 39, 40

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Larkin, Ashby – Winning Shot.......................................................................................................................... 31, 32 Lentz, MaryLiz –

Light in the Night.................................................................................................................................. Cover

Hanging On............................................................................................................................................... 1,2

Peek of Light.......................................................................................................................................... 9, 10

Dazed and Confused............................................................................................................................. 19, 20

Sparkles and Ice................................................................................................................................... 43, 44

Scattered Beauty.................................................................................................................................. 49, 50

String of Lights............................................................................................................................. Back Cover

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Mathas, Mia – The Greatest Sunset........................................................................................................................ 30 Maus, Ellie – Natural Strength................................................................................................................................ 33 McMonagle, Carson – It Is a Beauteous Morning..................................................................................................... 35 Michelon, Logan

What We Don’t Notice................................................................................................................................. 6

Into the Unknown................................................................................................................................. 13, 14 Moniger, Ryan – A Day at Nationals Park................................................................................................................. 31

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Obermeyer, Ashley – Amafli Coast.................................................................................................................... 45, 46

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Purrington, Darden – Rigging......................................................................................................................................................... 1

Her Eyes..................................................................................................................................................... 19

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Smith, Sarah Ellen – Regatta Day....................................................................................................................... 37, 38

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Walthall, Brooke – Ocean Mystique........................................................................................................................ 27

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Zhou, Sophie –

Dead Leaves................................................................................................................................................ 5

Street of the Greedy................................................................................................................................. 7, 8

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Letter from the Editor-in-Chief When I was first appointed editor-in-chief, I told myself, “I’m going to make this the most aesthetically pleasing issue ever.” Yes, I am very ambitious and tend to forget that I got a 2/9 on a “How Well Do You Actually See Autumn Colors” BuzzFeed quiz. It also didn’t help that I am a procrastinating perfectionist because I found myself conflicted between Candara and Arial (I ended up choosing Candara as you can see) when we were already two weeks behind production schedule.

Yet here we are with the 51st issue of Horizons, united under the theme of “lights.” The pictures are deliberately organized from dark to light and can be interpreted in several ways. The progression of night to day. Despair to hope. Ignorance to enlightenment. I’ll leave that up to the readers.

I’d like to send out my gratitude to Mrs. Davis for being such a supportive adviser and making sure I booked meetings for Horizons. She was always there to keep me going whenever I slowed down and started getting lazy. I’d also like to send a big shout out to MaryLiz for sharing her photography skills, something I’m not blessed with. The perk of living with a photographer is being able to barge into her room late at night and frantically scream, “I need a dark picture for the cover. DARK. Maybe with lights. One single light, actually. Preferably by the end of this week. Thanks.” That, ladies and gentlemen, is how the cover for this issue was born.

Every page has been crafted with keen attention so that the pictures, literary work, and layout are tied together. Hours of work have been dedicated to these pages, and I hope you enjoy them.

Catherine Kim Editor-in-Chief

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Happy New Year

Gin Chan

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