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    • Apr 4
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    A basket of oranges - Amy Bright

    A basket sits on a table. Filled with oranges. The sun travels across the floorboards and bleeds onto the table. The oranges light on...
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    Fresh Avocado
    • Apr 4
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    Clarisse - Matilda Livesey

    Who disregarded her parents' wisdom, and perished as a result. Clarisse devotes her life to fruit, She keeps her spares within her boot...
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    The house in the attic - Alex Quinn
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    • Aug 28, 2020
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    The house in the attic - Alex Quinn

    There was a door about four metres off the ground, planted on the ceiling, which is always strange. There was something darkly humorous...
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    The way of life - Abby Scott
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    • Aug 28, 2020
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    The way of life - Abby Scott

    Her breath smells of cigarettes and her sweater is worn down. She’s been sat there for over an hour, slowly drifting away from reality....
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    Lizard Luxuries - Friday Meulengracht-Madsen
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    • Aug 28, 2020
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    Lizard Luxuries - Friday Meulengracht-Madsen

    To be a lizard I scale a yellow clay wall Tail wriggling swiftly My little heart beats fast Crunching insects in between my jaw Legs...
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    If a day of my life disappeared - Joyia Raymond
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    • Aug 28, 2020
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    If a day of my life disappeared - Joyia Raymond

    If a day of my life disappeared I don’t think I would notice All the days are the same in my head - All the weekdays, anyway If it was a...
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    Time - Millie Crowe
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    • Aug 28, 2020
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    Time - Millie Crowe

    The Kauri tree, Big and overshadowing. Its branches stretching out, Leaves rustling in gentle zephyr. I remember climbing it, Higher and...
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    'The Piano' - Isy Gibson (Year 10)
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    • Jul 29, 2019
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    'The Piano' - Isy Gibson (Year 10)

    For numerous years it sat there Hidden from prying peepers Like unwelcome baggage Or an undesirable fate It perches feebly on its...
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    'Blood Rose' - Josie Stephens (Year 9)
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    • Jul 29, 2019
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    'Blood Rose' - Josie Stephens (Year 9)

    Chapter One. The Murderer. Tap, tap, tap. The footsteps of the murderer grew louder and louder as I was shaking in my closet. Beads of...
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    'Queens of Cuba Street' - Sadie Galloway (Year 11)
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    • Jul 29, 2019
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    'Queens of Cuba Street' - Sadie Galloway (Year 11)

    I keep my eyes on the concrete surrounding my feet. Remnants of McDonald’s circle an overflowing rubbish bin and the shadows of heavy...
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    'Nadia Boulanger' - Mallory Stevenson (Year 13)
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    • Jul 29, 2019
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    'Nadia Boulanger' - Mallory Stevenson (Year 13)

    1. Domain. Tentacle Bach Moo! moo! farming watchfully His left cheek flaking off the canvas, so does the sky, The sun keeps eating the...
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    'The issue with the fat rat' - Emily Rosemergy (Year 12)
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    • Jul 29, 2019
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    'The issue with the fat rat' - Emily Rosemergy (Year 12)

    The first thing that went wrong was that the rat got fat. We had given it a happy life full of all the things a rat could wish for, and...
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    言 'Yan' - Cadence Chung (Year 11)
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    • Apr 9, 2019
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    言 'Yan' - Cadence Chung (Year 11)

    言 Yan (Spoken Word) The spoken word reveals itself ‒ on whiteboards, scrawled quickly, in ink Three lines, a box, and a smudge; nothing...
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    'If the earth were cool I'd still be in school' - Lily Parkin (Year 12)
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    • Apr 9, 2019
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    'If the earth were cool I'd still be in school' - Lily Parkin (Year 12)

    On the 15th of March 2019 more than a thousand students decided to walk out of school to march in a strike against climate change, I was...
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    'A gift in time' - Hana Kilford (Year 10)
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    • Apr 9, 2019
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    'A gift in time' - Hana Kilford (Year 10)

    Richard woke up at 6 am every morning. Then he made a peanut butter sandwich. He cut the sandwich diagonally down the middle to make two...
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    'What we be' - Reza Zareian-Jahromi (Year 13)
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    • Apr 9, 2019
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    'What we be' - Reza Zareian-Jahromi (Year 13)

    *** Published in 2019 Anthology 'More of Us'. Congratulations Reza! *** We be pack of crow. Black bird perched upon scorched branch....
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    'Pelorus Bridge' - Jelle Keizer (Year 9)
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    • Apr 9, 2019
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    'Pelorus Bridge' - Jelle Keizer (Year 9)

    Whenever I am on the ferry I have two main feelings. The prominent feeling is boredom, but another major feeling is the excitement of...
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    'BANG' - Maya Neupane (Year 13)
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    • Aug 9, 2018
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    'BANG' - Maya Neupane (Year 13)

    the end won’t be seen with a BANG. you won’t catch it coming round the corner it’ll creep up - a caught-in-the-throat comment never...
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    'A speech to the troops' - Zachary Taylor (Year 10)
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    • Aug 2, 2018
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    'A speech to the troops' - Zachary Taylor (Year 10)

    You are too young to live and die Underneath this starry sky And I know you’d rather be eating your mother’s pie But you must attack thy...
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    'My moon, my sun' - Ri Theodore (Year 12)
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    • Aug 2, 2018
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    'My moon, my sun' - Ri Theodore (Year 12)

    My moon, my sun; a blossom . you began so rare and so wild. a posy pink ; i repulsed at your beauty but you grew, as did i. we became...
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