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Junior Brian Miller talks about how he finds inspiration for his writing. “I’m best able to organize the emotions that I’m experiencing,” Miller said. “And then taking from that the ideas, and, boom, it’s all on.”

Wrestling With Words

Joyce Ma and Doreen Hou April 3, 2026

Every day after school, junior Brian Miller zooms across campus on his trusty electric scooter and makes his way to the Paly wrestling room. When Miller speaks, legs dangled over the legs of a round wooden...

What [Remains]

Joyce Ma January 29, 2026

In between before and after, the world was choking and burning. A blind bolting rush, a desperate gasp of air — — a stampede of suffocating fear. Dull shells gleaming, a wave of skittering arms...

Drowning in School

Drowning in School

Joyce Ma December 10, 2024

I am a fish drowning in water, Struggling to desperately not to sink under the flood of life,  Trying to last just one more day.   I furiously swim and swim against unrelenting currents, racing...

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