Contributors
Harrison Clay currently lives in Westchester, New York. In his free time he enjoys hanging out with his friends, traveling, and going to concerts. If you ever feel the urge to see him in person, you can find him pretty much at any concert in the New York / Tri-State area. In the fall he will be attending the Savannah College of Art & Design where he will expand his knowledge of the business and marketing of cosmetics and fragrance.
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Elliott Feder spends most of her time singing and writing. You can read her (often sad) musings in this publication and hear her (often sad) songs on SoundCloud ;) That being said, if anyone reading this enjoys Indie R&B and would like to sign her to a label, she can be found at NYU Clive Davis as of this fall.
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Theodore (Ted) Horowitz, not to be confused with American singer Popa Chubby (who bears the same name), is a semi-capable student and aspiring Sith Lord who one day thought that taking a Creative Non-Fiction seminar would be an easy way to fulfill the graduation requirement of taking an English class in his senior year of high school. He was sorely mistaken. On your average day, Ted can be found leading the Masters sea shanty club, Salty Dogs, in what can best be described as a Machiavellian fashion and/or finding new and original ways to get out of doing sports. Next year, Ted will be attending Brown University where he hopes to continue his life-long project of “taking the Iron Throne.”
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Amita Khurana currently resides in Northern Westchester, New York. You can often find her in the dance studio taking class, creating choreography, rehearsing for Dance Company, or spending her Wednesday nights and Sunday mornings with MUSE. She enjoys spontaneous sleepovers with her best friends, laughing at inside jokes with her siblings, and painting her nails crazy colors. Amita will be attending Skidmore College in the fall in hopes of continuing her love for dance, writing, and international affairs.
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Wendi Liu was born in Shanghai, China and lived there for the first fifteen years of her life. You can see her singing Asian songs, reading various kinds of novels, running on the aqueduct in Westchester, and talking with friends until 6 a.m. She loves math, Mayday, cheese, and cute little creatures like Gudetama. Wendi looks forward to studying applied math in college and fiuring out how to combine her interest in both STEM and humanity.
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A Single Guitar Can Protest Bombs
Samantha A. Newman has aspirations to live and travel in a converted Sprinter van tiny home. She is attending Savannah College of Art and Design in the fall to study interior design. During high school Sami spent most of her time at a skating rink, practicing for her team, Team Image. She currently makes custom sneakers —@sneakersbysami on Instagram— on the off chance that anyone reading happens to want a pair. Please enjoy her rather candid high school writing in the collection of stories.
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Cara Sherr-Messing was born in China and raised in New York City. Her passions are creating art, petting dogs, and watching junk on her iPhone. Please don't ask her if she is Christian or Korean. She can often be found wearing a green messenger bag with too many buttons. Cara will be attending Skidmore College in the fall.
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Kate Stacks currently lives in Westchester, New York where she involuntarily spends most of her time writing the messy conglomerate of thoughts in her head into nice notebooks that she later throws out or never looks at again. Next year she hopes to find a way to sneak her unusually round dog Winnie into her dorm without her parents or college finding out.
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Elenor (El) Thomas-O’Brien was born in Russia but grew up in Westchester, New York. In her free time, she enjoys listening to music, doing digital art, calling friends, doing makeup, and traveling. She can usually be found on her computer, learning something new. She will be attending Wheaton College this coming fall as a foreign language major.
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Rebecca Wachen currently lives in Westchester, New York. She enjoys playing softball and hanging with her dogs. She is also an avid fantasy football player. Her proudest moment is being in one of the first cars of the day on Slinky Dog Dash at Disney World. She likes reading about sports, statistics, and random stuff. Rebecca will be attending Hamilton College in the fall.
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