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EDDA Art & Literary Magazine

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EDDA Art & Literary Magazine

EDDA Art & Literary Magazine

Nathan Ford, '25

Sonder

February 17, 2025

Do you ever feel like you're the main character? Feeling like nobody around you has a life story that matters, feeling like god handpicked you to live out the next story. News Flash you’re not. every...

Gregory Mitchell, '26

I Monster

January 29, 2025

(inspired by "Who Is She") My feet stopped and my head looked up at the gray sky, the clouds slowly forming around the sun’s vision. Ahh.. It’s getting cold, I need to hurry and get to school, why...

"Violaceous," Cross Gordon, '24

B.O.

January 29, 2025

In this place where we are all united by nation, but differentiated by odors, same by bodily features and functions but different by body hygiene. To some, or even to many in dressing areas in school,...

Jayda Dent, '26

Diorite

January 8, 2025

Look around you. What do you see? Objects, mere things, scattered about. They vary in shape, color, size and weight. But do you know what they all share? They are all made up of something, something that...

Isis McBride, '24

Mental Health

January 8, 2025

It’s a month of realizing mental health is serious. It’s a month of speaking out and sharing your story. It’s a month of honoring those who lost that battle. For those who tried to fight...

"I Am My Own Puppet," Javiyah Israel, '25

Pantoums & Sonnets from H-F Creative Writing Class!

December 13, 2024

Emeralds in the sky  KC, ‘25 There are Emeralds in the sky They were left there by those that came before Looking down at us now, And they'll be picked up by those that have yet to arrive   They...

Recipe for Disaster 101: How To Get Over It (Winner of Recipe Poem Contest)

November 25, 2024

  Begin by waking up, starting your day… ignore the mascara lines underneath your eyes and the salt on your lips. Ignore the throbbing from your head and the ache in your stomach.  Make...

Terrance Brown, '25

1-Sentence Horror Story Winner

November 14, 2024

I sometimes wonder, late at night, what I could’ve done to help that poor girl.

Isaiah Cole, '26

Our America Contest Winners

November 1, 2024

1st Place: A.M.E.R.I.C.A. by Alaya Carnes, '26 Maybe it’s my Nationalism, But I have an urge to be proud. Proud of them 13 stripes and 50 stars.   Because I hear the voice of...

Michae Rush, '25, "Homely"

Imperfections

October 24, 2024

Take a look in the mirror. Isn’t all that you see extraordinary, gorgeous, and breathtaking? That beautiful smile, and perfectly pigmented skin. Doesn’t the image you see remind you of your sisters,...

Za'nyah Johnson, '25

A Better Day Tomorrow

October 24, 2024

Only for a few minutes, camera’s shutter, people stare, then just like that it's gone, the world becomes dark. All day passes with clear or maybe cloudy, but mostly blue skies. When it's time for the...

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