The Goldfinch
October 2019
Animation by Marissa Ferretti
Before It’s Gone
by Hannah Simpkins
It’s raining. Of course, of all days, the clouds decide to cry today. How fitting.
Emery scans the unfamiliar faces of strangers opposite of her in a desperate attempt to keep her mind off of their public tragedy. Jean Rivers, who hardly even knew Emery’s brother, is dressed in an all-black dress with black heels and a black headband and a black necklace. God, why does everything have to be so black today?Jean kicks at the earth below her and Emery assumes that she finds that to be more pleasant than this dreadful service. Emery Continue reading
Animation by Elivin Mendez
Ron
By Drew Farsaci
During the dead of winter, in a small village in upstate New York things began to fall apart for a woman employed at GoldWire law firm. Not before, nothing at all was falling apart. Jessica DeBrasio was an accountant at the only law office in the town. She was bored with her life, Jessica was unsatisfied with herself. She knew what she was doing to herself by pushing the feelings aside. Jessica only worked harder, and lived under an illusion that everything was ok. On this Friday in January her boss asked her to stay late. She liked Continue reading
Animation by Will Johnson
Ex or Not
By Katelyn Duell
Billie falls in love with her highschool crush Finn and after four years she gets the text of her dreams, but is it too good to be true?
“Ding” went Billie’s phone. Billie jumping towards it excited because she never gets text. There appeared a name she knew but did not really know like that.
What the hell. Finn? What could he want?OMG what if he figured out I like him, but I’ve liked him since I was a freshman, were seniors now. Why would he wait so long?
She continued to think of questions as she unlocked her phone to read the message. The text saying one word made of three letters. “Hey”. Little did she know that was the text that would forever change her life. “Hey” Billie texted Continue reading
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