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The Student News Site of Gateway Regional High School

The Chomp

The Student News Site of Gateway Regional High School

The Chomp

The Student News Site of Gateway Regional High School

Nothing but the Rain

Nothing but the Rain

Gavin Kinsella, Creative Writer March 15, 2025

Droplets pour on the sidewalk uncontrollably directed by the wind. Trees shake while the wind whistles. Drawing more attention than the rest is the falling rain. Without a breath it takes on a life of...

Water Moon

Water Moon

Gavin Kinsella, Creative Writer January 4, 2025

An imitation shines dimly reflected in the water's surface. It eludes my grasp, with reality held high. Made to look up towards you trapped within my iris. Do you aim to crescent me? The...

An eerie presence radiates from this shrub. Best not to think about it too hard...

Rattle

Ace Smith, Creative Writer October 20, 2024

☾ ... A shake in the bush, soft, quiet, Dared only crickets and night winds to make noise. A mouse in a trap, shaken, shook. Soft, soft… loud… Pounding the ground, leaf, branch,...

Original creation by Ace Smith

Change, Grow, Adapt: We Humans

Ace Smith, Staff Writer May 19, 2024

Last week humans scrapped in forests, Each berry and carcass was ours– We hunted, we gathered, We made huts of sticks, Decorated with vines and flowers. Just days ago we made villages, Fresh...

Cherry Bloom

Cherry Bloom

Ace Smith, Writer April 13, 2024

Over the lake is a large growing tree that stands over me like a symbol of change.   I remember this lake, when it was a pond, sky and water a bond, glistens all that filled.   I checked...

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