You fear of making a mistake, once, twice, and once again, the piano sound echoes through the arena. It’s okay, it’s just you and the piano, all alone. You breathe, you must breathe, or you’ll lose focus. You close your eyes and let the piano take over you. Are you still scared? Are you ready to play? 

Years after an unsettling incident on a high school trip to Kyoto, a group of friends discovers an old cassette tape that captured far more than just their teenage laughter. Click to read Miu Yamazaki's chilling flash fiction about a ghostly encounter that might have followed them home.

When a jammed kitchen drawer spills a late father's meticulously folded receipts, one unevenly creased train ticket reveals the quiet, devastating secret.

We are made up of all different parts that are inherent to us – different types of hair, teeth, noses, struggles, and achievements. The truth is, we don’t get to control what is inherent to us, but we can choose how we act on them. Perhaps Mckayla does not want to feel the way she does about the new girl in her class on the first day of school, but it’s up to her to choose how she wants to go about it. 

What if action itself has no clear meaning? What if the greatest enemy isn’t a villain, but your own mind? In this model text analysis, Olivia explores how Hamlet turns inner conflict into the driving force of the play.

Not every story is about victory—this one is about how hard it is to reach it. Through powerful mountain imagery, this poem explores the long and painful journey toward success, filled with setbacks, struggle, and persistence. There are no shortcuts or easy wins here—only the climb, where every fall and every scar becomes part of growing stronger. More than anything, it shows that success is not a single moment, but a difficult path that demands resilience, endurance, and the strength to keep going.

‘Flesh gives us voice, and blood gives us worth. We honor the humans and give thanks for the flesh and blood that sustain us.’ In the flash fiction "Bite of an Apple," you and the protagonist experience an eerie and uncanny world full of desire and raw instincts of the animals. The protagonist tries to resist the allurement of the flesh that tempts him. Can he break out from the spiral of desire? Can you withstand the mesmerizing desires?