I Ate As Many Apples As I Could In Five Days And You Won’t Believe What Happened
Recently I’ve noticed a trend in online investigative journalism (here I use the term “investigative journalism” very loosely) – that can be best described as...
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Sign Me Up
You are reading this right now because I signed up for The Rib at the activities fair two years ago. Though I fully intended to...
Manic Pixie Dream Mole
When I was thirteen years old, I saw 500 Days of Summer in theaters. Any kind of meta-narrative or social commentary flew right over my...
Schrödinger’s Baseball
There is a concept in quantum physics called Schrödinger’s Cat. Conceived in 1935 by Erwin Schrödinger, the basic premise is that there exists a cat inside a...
The Odyssey or: How Some Moron Ruins Everything Instead of Just Going Home
My freshman year of high school, we spent about a semester on The Odyssey. While it was a generally enjoyable experience, I have some lingering qualms about some...
Annie Warner and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Doctor’s Appointment
Alice Morse Earle once said “every day might not be good, but there is something good in every day.” This is both a wonderful sentiment...
Magic Tree House: The Next Generation
Let’s start off with a little personal anecdote: the first chapter book I ever read was a Magic Tree House book, so they hold a special...
Teen Romance Novel: Chapter Three
Read Chapters One & Two. Chapter Three: I spent the entire class staring straight ahead, feeling Blake’s eyes on my back. I didn’t absorb any...
Puritan Suburbia
ELIAS: Good morrow, neighbor! How fares thee on this fine day? JEZEBEL: Good morrow, Elias. ‘Tis a fine day indeed. I’m faring well, sweeping my porch and...
Teen Romance Novel: Chapter Two
Read Chapter One here. Chapter Two: After stowing my textbooks in my locker, I turned back into the crowd of students headed towards the cafeteria....