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The Independent

The student news site of Glenbard South High School in Glen Ellyn, Illinois

The Independent

The student news site of Glenbard South High School in Glen Ellyn, Illinois

The Independent

Essay Season

Essay Season

Amelia Buhle, Illustrator September 30, 2024

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July 8th

Anna Cleland April 5, 2024

As I walked down the street I saw people in the distance The sun was setting with bright colors of yellow and orange  The air was soft  Trees swallowed my surroundings  Two special people beside...

Pluviophile

Amina Irfanullah April 5, 2024

Oh, to hold the hand of rain,  The cool embrace of water Can only cool a heart on fire. 

She was Never the Same After That

Amina Irfanullah April 5, 2024

Isolation. A world of nobody but your own soul. The feeling that disappearance is the only option. But it’s not.   Surrounded. A world full of people. The feeling that disappearance is the...

A Risk Worth Taking

Amina Irfanullah April 5, 2024

If, one day, you find yourself at a bridge. A bridge too small to walk on, But too large to ignore. Don’t think too much. If the bridge is large it means it is long It may take a while to cross But...

Half-Remembered Dream

Amina Irfanullah April 5, 2024

I only really remember half of your dream. I know it was beautiful and I know it scared you.   The half of your dream, That I really remember, Put me into a coma The first time I heard it.   The...

My Existence

Izma Khan February 9, 2024

Exist, persist, resist, insist, Why assume I seek your favor? Your opinions, a fleeting flavor, In a dystopia of wine, you persist, Reality calls, a beauty untold, Beyond the vineyards, where pleasures...

Dreading Affection

Izma Khan February 9, 2024

In a blink of an eye Reluctantly yet invisibly  Was it that a phantom’s touch consumed me? My body couldn’t take it anymore The cold sweat tickled down my wretched face “We don’t have to...

Deluded until Death

Alishbaa Karim February 9, 2024

Life is merely a delusion, a test for your actions. The results will show up after death, when there is an absence of life And thus, An absence of delusion. Your death will be the truest, most visceral...

Corpse in The Kitchen

Izma Khan February 9, 2024

I want to bury myself  in the kitchen. The merry laborers  that get eaten  are not always sad. The love that room breeds. Time was acting  like a narcissist  when it was invited,           now...

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