Welcome to Winchester High School’s 2023-2024 Semester One Literary Magazine! The Creative Writing Guild is excited to present our first publication of the year, featuring creative writing and art from the club and from WHS students. We would like to thank everyone who contributed to this issue of the LitMag, and we hope you enjoy this collaboration of writing and artwork.
Sincerely,
The LitMag Editors - Evelyn LaMont, Kyle Plosky, and Aniana Garciano
Front cover art: Litmag Cover: Avani Tomar
Back cover art from upper left: All-American: Noah Dollard, The Flowers' Rain Dance: Christie Charles, Calamity: Justin Zou, Seeing Things: THE Jackson Slubowski, Shot on iPhone: Very creative pen name
During Creative Writing Guild meetings, we spend a lot of time on collaborative writing activities, often involving everyone starting a story and then passing it around to continue, so everyone's unique writing style is visible within one creation, often resulting in hilarity. These are some of our favorites from the past semester.
Despite common belief, an unassuming chickenpigeon does not typically take baths in the North Pacific ocean. No, instead, they prefer to travel all the way to the town of crankerpiggerville, where chickenpigeons roamed free and happy.
The scariest moment of my life happened over the course of one summer, not just one summer, two summers. Or perhaps three now, time warping curses are one hell of a spell. No, I think it was two and a half, if I recall the Swamp Monster’s words correctly. Anyways, between the times of 1-3 years ago, a child named String Cheese was lost to the infamous Swamp Monster.
One day, a magical seed fell into the ground on a mountainside, and sprouted into a beanstalk. However, the beanstalk shed tears each day because unlike its fellow stalks, it was unable to stalk others...
Mr. Brown was an average art teacher who loved nothing more than to relax after work with a big plate of spaghetti. That was, until one day when his students had called him at his house. He was enjoying the spaghetti the students had made for him, then he heard it, something about the spaghetti.
I hate string cheese. Wait, no… I highly dislike cheese. Mommy said that hate is a bad word. Good thing Mommy is dead. String cheese killed her. String cheese attended her funeral and threw string cheese around like confetti as he screamed. I hired the shredder of all string cheeses to play string music as he stringed stars on stringed lights above a silly string casket of my stringy mother.
1. Never step foot in a physics class, for you will question your entire existence
2. If you believe hard enough, anything can pop into existence
3. “Hapiness” is a concept of happiness without physics
4. Find a walrus and become its friend
Thank you for reading the fall installment of the WHS Literary Magazine, and an additional thank you to each student who submitted their creative work! We hope you enjoyed, and we’ll see you in the spring for the next issue!
Sincerely,
The LitMag Editors - Evelyn LaMont, Kyle Plosky, and Aniana Garciano