Letter from the Editor

If you’re reading this, the winter 2018 issue of Gunn High School’s Pandora’s Box Creative Magazine has been published.

For this issue, we set some big goals to surpass our work from last year. With more than 80 submissions of memoirs, short stories, personal narratives, poetry, photography, paintings, drawings, and more, this issue is (again) the largest Pandora’s Box issue to date and our first ever online-exclusive issue.

I say this on behalf of the entire Pandora’s Box team: we couldn’t be prouder. Our officers and members devoted countless hours and lunchtimes to make this publication a possibility. A few important thank-yous are necessary. Thank you, officers and members, for all your efforts. Senior officers—thank you for dedicating your time and thought to this magazine during your college application seasons. Mr. Dunlap—thank you for all of your unwavering support and guidance. Most importantly, however, we’d be absolutely lost without our cherished contributors and readers.

Especially prevalent in this issue are the individual voices and memoirs of the Gunn student body. And as we bundle up for a (Californian) winter, I hope these stories of what it means to be human—stories, tales, and recountings of what matters to you and your peers—warm you. We invite you to immerse yourself in the liveliness evoked from a carousel, the nostalgia elicited from a dusty yellow book, and the wisdom gained from a broken arm.

In the next semester, we’ll be preparing to pass on this Pandora’s Box legacy. As you flip through these pages, we hope you’ll consider joining us in 2019.

Winter wishes, Kristie Huang, Editor-in-Chief