The Man Who Loved FlowersShort story review by Kate Plummer, 17, Gisborne Girls’ High SchoolTHE Man Who Loved Flowers is a short story written by Stephen King a...
INSPIRING, influential and amazing, these are just a few words that described my experience at Festival for the Future 2017 in Auckland.
In early August I got t...
RECENTLY at Lytton High School we had 12 students from Gisborne’s sister city Nonoichi in Japan come to visit. This was an opportunity for the students to expe...
SOMETIMES it wavers
My sense of reality
I begin to see untrue things.
The charcoal line
between right and wrong
will blur and spread
I blink,
And suddenly the l...
Hey it’s me here, Anonymous, coming to you from your newspaper.
Get a snack, settle in because I’m about to tell you all about drinking, more specifically me dr...
I am magnetic and sensational
Vibrant
Charismatic
Magnificent
I am a blizzard in the desert
A chapel of trees
The sepulchre of the gods
My skin is embroidered w...
1. I am trying to write a home out of a place I still have not found myself, even after five years.
2. I don’t know who she is, but she has always been on my mi...
None of us get out of life alive,
Everything that we see to last forever will eventually die
Even after our existence concludes
The things we perceive to be bea...
I WRITE today to speak to you about something that has been triggering my mind for the past five to six years. The one thing that has been playing on my mind is...
THERE are many different types of people when it comes to exams.There are the people who walk in with full confidence with no doubts about what they’re doing; t...
IT'S been a rough week in New Zealand post General Election.
Tempers are high, insults are being thrown about and I might have unfriended a bunch of people on ...
FOR so long I have been unconscious
Sleepwalking has life bragged on and on and on
It continues as you struggle to keep up, tantalising you as you fall behind b...
“THERE is a price to pay. Death is a heartbeat away.” — The Slow Surrender by Parkway Drive
This is my visual way of saying that life is too short. Don’t waste ...
IT was like we were standing on the edge of a cliff
The wind would bite as as we stood there
And I turned to you as my hair lashed across my face and asked
“Sho...
A RELAXING holiday in Taupo was exactly what I needed after a long and busy term at school.
Our family played the roles of typical tourists, taking lots of phot...
“MOTHER Mercy, take my hand. Follow me through this forsaken land. Father Time, return what’s mine. The innocence you’ve stolen from these eyes.”
— Home Is For ...
The Handmaid’s Tale is a feminist masterpiece. Adapted from the 1985 Margaret Atwood novel, it explores a different post-apocalyptic landscape from what we are ...
I’M 17.
I have been for a full 30 hours.
Seventeen.
Seventeen and it doesn’t matter.
Yesterday was just another day, a birthday doesn’t entitle you to skip s...
THEY’RE sold in boxes, come with our favourite fast food and kids go crazy over them.
Straws are basically pointless, a wasteful plastic tube we stick into our ...
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.” — Mahatma Gandhi.
Greed is one of the most dangerous things. But we all have it....
Last year, I became a member of I Am Youth, but one major thing has changed since then — I moved to Auckland.
I am going to explain how different life is in Auc...