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December 2020

Issue Seven

FICTION
Troubled Water
Kenna Klop-Packel
She has press-on nails.
FICTION
Haven,
Part Two

Gwendolin
Weber-Stover

Lev gazed out the window as the carriage whizzed through the air.
FICTION
An Unwelcome Visit
Jasper
Lovvorn-Black

Having excused the guests from his house after the book club, Mr. Brice felt unsatisfied.
FICTION
Certainty
Zoe Mitchell
You softly open the old metal door to your bunker . . .
POETRY
rupture when it once seemed solid
Nina Thompson
i’ve always viewed this earth with the lens of affection
FICTION
Ready?
Auden Svoboda
“Ready?” Rosie asks as we shuffle forward in the queue.
POETRY
Happy Deathday
Meghan Malone
I’m sorry I’m the one to deliver the news . . .
FICTION
After All That’s Happened
Sol de Ugarte
Everything feels wrong.
FICTION
Discoveries in the Bookstore, Part One
Skyler Rockmael
I lay awake, curled up under my sheets in our shoebox of an apartment in Brooklyn.
FICTION
Lovely
Mia Skoble
I walk along the curb, watching my steps carefully, making sure I don’t step on any cracks.
POETRY
Tomorrow Comes
Julia Weinberg
She lies awake in moon-soaked sheets
How will it go?
FICTION
Something Magnificent
Daisy
Paris-Kaufman

It had been a while since I had seen anything.
FICTION
The Sea and It All
Zora Laddish
The Sun didn’t come first.
FICTION
The Continuous Nightmare
Mahela Cabrini
Slowly she realized that she couldn't do anything.
FICTION
The Pantheon, Part Two
Sonja Wooley
We always remember the moment right before everything changes.

October 2020

Issue Six

FICTION
Stationary
Zora Laddish
It begins with the doorman. A white envelope, an unrecognizable seal.
POETRY
The Staircase
Auden Svoboda
Faces are flying past, accompanied by a cacophony of footsteps
FICTION
Coral
Claudia Johnson
The train continued to rattle on the tracks.
FICTION
Just a Face in the Mirror
Mia Skoble
I stare into my own eyes. I don’t recognize the person in the reflection.
FICTION
Dennis Pigeon's 75th Birthday Present
Julia Weinberg
Dennis and Gail sat in their apartment, in the bright light of all the candles crowding his ice cream cake.
FICTION
The Pantheon, Part One
Sonja Wooley
It was a Sunday afternoon and I slipped wordlessly from the house, taking the stairs two at a time.
FICTION
Haven
Gwendolin
Weber-Stover

Lia rolled over once more, her blankets tightening their snake-like grip on her body.
POETRY
A Conversation in the Sky
Daisy
Paris-Kaufman

Two women stood facing one another
FICTION
Winter River
Luka Henrie-Naffaa
It was their fourth day of winter break, and Clancy was on a sledding trip to Yosemite with his cousins.
FICTION
Giant
Kenna Klop-Packel
She wakes.
Stone and bedrock enfold sore limbs, pain breeding not from use but from the lack of it. . .

FICTION
Resister,
Part Two

Zoe Mitchell
“Hey, hey.”
I shudder, as someone speaks from right behind me.

POETRY
Ashes in Your Eyes
Meghan Malone
When fire roars
And smoke rises
The whole world
Just improvises

POETRY
A Smile in the Dust
Sol de Ugarte
Do you remember when we used to smile?
FICTION
Immune
Jasper
Lovvorn-Black

I walked down the dirt path, hoping to find anything of interest.

March/May 2020

Issue Five

This issue spans two academic quarters due to COVID-19.
FICTION
Heavy
Sol de Ugarte
You don’t expect it, but when you walk into the house, the grief is tangible.
FICTION
Sea Witch
Kenna Klop-Packel
Salt cakes the edges of her mouth and hugs her skin, drying and pinching it, abrasive grains kneading into old scars and new wounds.
POETRY
Scribbles in the Margins
Sonja Wooley
I light a candle because I want
To take back my time.

FICTION
Constellations
Claudia Johnson
“And . . . done,” Addison said, putting down the brush. "What do you think?"
FICTION
Persephone
Zora Laddish
She came as she always did, alone and barefoot to the edge of the chasm, so close that one would crave to shout look out!
FICTION
Last Meal
Auden Svoboda
Claus pulled the hood of his black cloak further over his face to shield himself from the unrelenting sun.
FICTION
Resister,
Part One

Zoe Mitchell
I walk a few steps behind you, a resistor clenched in my sweaty palm.
FICTION
A Fair Trade
Daisy
Paris-Kaufman

The Earth is different here.
FICTION
Shooting Stars
Mia Skoble
I can’t believe my friends talked me into coming here, then didn’t even show up.
FICTION
The Cook's Room,
Part Two
Julia Weinberg
A scream filled the estate.

2020 Emerging Writers

Each spring, Redwood publishes a limited number of pieces
written by eighth graders at King, Longfellow, and Willard middle schools in Berkeley.
Emerging Writers are guided through the editing process by experienced Redwood writers and our faculty advisor.

Emerging Writer
Longfellow
Middle School

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POETRY

The Ones Who Pay
Lucia
Segovia Merlos

As the moon fades into the sunlight
The stars dissolve into the first hints of blue sky

Emerging Writer
King
Middle School

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POETRY

Fighting for You
Luka Henrie-Naffaa
Dear Baby Polar Bear . . .
Emerging Writer
Willard
Middle School

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POETRY

I Must
Gwendolin
Weber-Stover

i hesitate
to loosen my grip
on the comforts
of the present

December 2019

Issue Four

INTERVIEW
Interview with Principal Erin Schweng
Julia Weinberg
"I have loved books for as long as I can remember."
FICTION
Witchbane
Zora Laddish
"You should give me proof that I'm a witch."
POETRY
Bliss
Daisy
Paris-Kaufman

"Ignorance is Bliss"
That's what they always told me
Whenever I asked questions

FICTION
Brimstone
Kenna Klop-Packel
A rustling sound shook the air as leather was pulled up over heels and shoulders . . .
POETRY
What Should I Remember?
Sonja Wooley
How about an imaginary boat,
Rudderless and swaying,
Cradled in a velvet
Whispering sea?

FICTION
A Party
Nora Furlong
Sonoma Avenue is quiet save for the chirping of night birds and the removed sounds of the neighbors' evening routines.
FICTION
Bloom
Claudia Johnson
Daffodil scowled and scrubbed harder at the glass.
FICTION
We Have a Basement?
Sol de Ugarte
Ahead of me, I hear a scream from the haunted house.

October 2019

Issue Three

PERSONAL NARRATIVE
Self-Portrait
Sonja Wooley
She wrote before she knew the alphabet.
FICTION
Day at the Lake
Nora Furlong
“Sunscreen, everybody!”
Grace’s mother smiled widely, passing around the oily bottle.

POETRY
July Ninth
Julia Weinberg
She admits it:
She’s awake.

FICTION
The Colorful Woman
Daisy
Paris-Kaufman

I don't remember everything from that night.
FICTION
Release
Claudia Johnson
Honestly, who knocks on a door for two minutes straight?
FICTION
The Desert Stretched
Zora Laddish
The desert stretched. It must have stretched. The man had only a few miles to walk to get from one camp to the next, but he'd been traveling for three days.
POETRY
Glass Bottle
Rylyn Jaggar
I wrote you a message
I poured out my heart

POETRY
The State of Us
Sol de Ugarte
We live in the U.S.
Where gun rights
Are favored
Over education, the lives of your children

FICTION
Rad
Kenna Klop-Packel
She sleeps.
Her body twists through consciousness, overlapping and underlapping with bliss, sublime happiness.

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