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Seasonal Sips

Seasonal Sips

Rating popular fall drinks
Astor Jones and Mashiyat Khan October 30, 2023

As you lay in bed, looking out the window, you spot warm colored leaves drifting off the trees. With fall in season, you realize it’s the time of year to snuggle in your bed with a fuzzy blanket and...

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The Road for Me

The Road for Me

Janisha Kesar, Reporter October 30, 2023

The room was blurry. My mind was spinning. The projector board was a series of indecipherable tasks  to accomplish. My eighth grade self sat awkwardly at my desk, palms sweating, legs shaking.The counselors...

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A place I wont forget

A place I won’t forget

JC Mays, Business Manager October 24, 2023

Growing up, my family and I would take evening trips to the playground and  duck pond behind Timber Creek Elementary. Over the years, these places have lost their allure, but now I get to watch my brother...

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Growing From Change

Growing From Change

Sameeha Alidina, Reporter October 22, 2023

Change: a six-letter word I despised.  My whole life, I’ve hated change. The smallest amount of change would send me into a panic. I could never accept it, rather I would whine and complain until normalcy...

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Ending racism requires both speaking and listening

The Marquee Staff May 16, 2023

When you’re a racial minority in a mostly White school, you get used to feeling out of place. You feel it when you walk into a new class and see that you’re the only student of your race there....

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Sharp blades and Band-Aids

Sharp blades and Band-Aids

Roslyn Dobbins May 2, 2023

Be advised that the content in this story contains self-harm and suicide, and may be triggering to some readers.    My mom cried when she saw the scars littering my arms and stomach for the...

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Summer spiral

Summer spiral

Ana Maria Myers-Olvera May 2, 2023

Hundreds of people cram into the small, humid Granada Theater in central Dallas after standing outside in the blazing Texas heat for hours on end. I’m next to all the other teenage girls packed together...

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Running from religion

Running from religion

Lex Paull May 2, 2023

“If you don’t convert to God, you’ll be sent to hell after you die.” Religion had never played a big role in my life until I was told this at age 11. From my knowledge of horror movies and those...

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Bottled up

Bottled up

Dylan Sorenson April 24, 2023

One of my favorite memories of my childhood was when my mom and I used to go every other weekend to a small frozen yogurt shop. Just the two of us would drive to the shop when it first opened to beat the...

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A losing game

A losing game

Emily Couch, Reporter April 24, 2023

  Eraser crumbs covered the desk. I stared down at my tear soaked paper and the empty spaces I couldn’t fill. Everyone in my second grade class had finished their work and gone to lunch, but...

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Students need more info about safety

The Marquee Staff April 18, 2023

On May 24, one of the most publicized mass shootings occurred at Uvalde's Robb Elementary School, when a gunman passed through the school’s unlocked doors and killed 19 kids and 2 teachers.  This tragedy...

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The bottom of the box

The bottom of the box

Editor's note: This story won first place for personal column in the 2023 ILPC contest. It also won a 2023 Tops in Texas.
Owen Oppenheimer, Reporter April 18, 2023

Editor's note: This story won first place for personal column in the 2023 ILPC contest. It also won a 2023 Tops in Texas.  Resting at the bottom of a box buried below an old preppy school uniform and...

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