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Contributor Introductions
About Our Student Contributors
Max Bleich is three things: a professional copywriter, proud antizionist Jew and Game Boy fanatic.
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Sara Evelyne, a disabilities advocate and brain injury survivor, hopes her writing will impact others by inspiring people to embrace their vulnerability and compassionately embrace life and themselves.
Alyssa K. Gelet is a graduating senior majoring in and tutoring for English who wishes to be a poet/ writer and regards writing as one of her greatest life forces. Madison Swartzentruber enjoys capturing the beauty of nature with her camera wherever she goes.
Lukas Zehetner is an 18-year-old transgender student hoping to educate others on topics that need more awareness.
Gabrielle Heath is a VCD student at Kent State University minoring in Photography. Jacob Martzaklis is an English major who, alongside reading and writing poetry, enjoys spending time with his family and hopes to become a teacher and/or published writer in the future.
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cherry on top
WORDS BY Alyssa Gelet ILLUSTRATIONS BY Preston Randall
For my dad: Just like I promised, I can finally share my dream with you. This is ours. I love you forever.
It is sad to me how we are born into this world— creators— but, you see, we too grow to be
natural-born critics, voting upon the beautiful renditions of each other’s souls…shutting down so many artists and entrepreneurs just for the sake of upholding this age-old curse— expectations—
when in reality —we are all the product of the sun, setting as it settles into the burning horizon, slumbering to give way to the ever-silent night littered with stars and the cherry-on-top moon. see, it is not your ability to clone the crying world that makes you magnificent…
love, when did we ever agree that clockwork was the prettiest existence known to humankind? No. It’s the flora that paints the world rainbow Or the fauna that glitters the world with life or the LED wonderland that comforts the night. The freethinking world is beautiful (The Wonderland we seek).
My dear, your passion is what makes your art incredible, not your ability to fade into black and white.
