My interest in writing really piqued when I was in middle school, and it arose because a good friend of mine began to write about his experiences in our shared outdoor hobbies—hunting, fishing, and trapping —and submit them to magazines for publication. Admittedly, I was surprised when he found success, and he encouraged me to write and try to do the same. Ultimately, I decided to try my hand at writing my first magazine article on a fishing method I’d developed for catching

At the start of 2025, I began to take interest in something that I never thought I would enjoy, the horror genre. At surface level, the horror genre can be seen as mindlessly scary or just as movies filled with blood and guts. I used to look at horror as just being scary with no substance. That’s why I stayed away from the genre for so long. However, I used a certain thought process for myself to get into the horror genre.     At the end of 2024, a video game called Piglet’s

‘Crush’ is a 2004 poetry collection published by Richard Siken, and it’s my favorite piece of art I’ve ever internalized. I struggle to describe accurately or precisely how much I adore this collection because it speaks to me and, evidently, many others in its 20 years of circulation in local libraries and Barnes & Noble’s. As someone who would call herself a fan of reading and writing poetry, I find that often in my own works and those of others it is difficult to convey and