Author: steinbrennerecho

The Sirens I promise knowledge. I promise songs bewitching and clear- I promise everything foolish men will fall to, so I may taste the sweet victory of their flesh decaying in the air. Men are all the same. Guileless, pathetic, oh-so-weak. They fall to our song, as they always must. They are nothing; more bones … Continue reading The Sirens by Jack Leist

Collage - Betty's Wedding by Grace Beilman     CREATIVITY TIME BY ALISON SPIER The warriors huddled around the campfire, the nighttime chorusing of summer crickets chirping in the background. Above them, the stars twinkled and winked, glittering diamonds against a deep blue velvet sky. The youngest of them had her head lifted upwards, admiring … Continue reading Creativity Time and Betty’s Wedding

Digital Art - Mama's Farm by Sam Berger     VIVID VIOLET BY GISELA IMMANUEL Violet is the hue intertwined in dusk, A ribbon floating aimlessly in astronomical twilight It is an Orchid Dotty Back blurring in the ocean, Taaffeites hiding under Sri Lanka’s skin. Violet is a chain of legato notes Sliding smoothly down … Continue reading Vivid Violet and Mama’s Farm

  Shoulders by Grace Beilman   My shoulders can’t be shown but the boy whose shirt says that bullets are faster than 911 runs free of charge and free of stares. My shoulders are not subject to your sexualizing statement, not a symbol of promiscuity not a scandal or an affair. My shoulders are draped … Continue reading Shoulders and Live Art

How to Burn a Witch One storied day - August 25th of 2015, to be exact - the Echo met for the first time. Vona wanted the class to pick their own attention-getter that would last until the end of the year. Many ideas bounced around the classroom with little enthusiasm. Then, from behind a … Continue reading Issue 3 – How to Burn a Witch

  The Tale of Bartholomew the Bee One storied afternoon - August 26th of 2017, to be exact - Echonians Thais and Lexi were doing some thrifting. As they meandered through aisles of clothes and shoes and purses, their wandering left them faced with a majestic and overwhelming wall of toys. Lexi and Thais immediately … Continue reading Issue 2 – The Tale of Bartholomew the Bee

Running was all Herschel knew. Ever since he was a young Dweller, he knew that everything in the forest was out to get him; creatures significantly larger than he was and much more terrifying. Herschel would've liked to believe he wasn't as puny and helpless as he was, but what was the point? With a … Continue reading Dwellers by Anastasia Gerges