It was week five — midterm week — and I was running on a whole lot of coffee and very little sleep. I’ve found a quiet place to finish my world history assignment in the Humanities building. Even though I’ve had to visit professors in this building a couple of times before, I’ve always gotten lost. It wound around...
Coffee shops around campus offer countless amounts of drinks, but what to pick? Sip on these warm and iced beverages to get a real feel for the Halloween season.
Fall is my favorite time of year, inspiring me to cover myself in blankets and curl up with a good book and a hot or iced drink in my hand. During...
Botanic Gardens Giant: By Sabrina Hunter, CW
Underneath the gardens bloom,
The roots grow deep.
But just beneath their reach,
A giant sleeps.
There he’s been for a thousand years.
His disturbed slumber makes for rustling bushes,
Turning in his sleep, making the world above move.
Escaping through the dome,
Piece by piece becoming loose until now
When he walks the gardens.
His dark silhouette blocking the moon,
Consumed in darkness.
One night...
A boo basket is a gift basket containing small gifts and sweets to celebrate your partner and the Halloween season. October is the perfect time to surprise your significant other with this boo-tiful gift, but how should you go about making one?
The first suggestion that I can give you is to choose a theme. This theme will be the...
This morning was a good one. The VRRRRR sound my phone made as it vibrated against my mattress pad woke me up from the last good dream I think I’m gonna have for a while. Sheepishly, as if my body knew I shouldn’t answer this call, shouldn’t put myself through the hell I was about to put myself through,...
Unworldly apparitions, logic-defying orbs, strange electronic malfunctions and peculiar physical sensations: all of these and innumerably more incidents make up the North American canon of the paranormal. These sensory manifestations of an embodied fear of the past haunt us, putting us in a perpetual state of anxious unease when consuming the past. Alive in Riverside just as it is...
One day, a girl decided to do laundry. She went down into the basement of the AI dorm and began her work. As she was putting her clothes into the machine, she noticed something glimmering underneath the sink. It was a locket with a delicate flower design etched into the silver exterior. The clasp to open it was rusted...
Being someone who is easily scared, but wants to enjoy Halloween, is not easy. After seeing TikToks of people at Halloween-themed amusement parks and hearing my friends talk about all the scary movies they’re going to watch, I can’t help but get a bit of FOMO. There are so many people around me that absolutely love Halloween, and I...
The moonlit sky
Shining on the haunted peaks
Of Box Springs Mountain
The pale white ghost cackling over the empty streets
He came down from the mountain
To find the students
Speaking rumors over his existence
Of when he lays his ghostly hands on you
Or the constant flickering of lights
To warn you of his presence
His existence is in the soul of the campus
And the students that...
The first Fall Fair since 2021 was a day of pumpkins and fun for everyone. As patrons walked through Lot 30, and entered the R’Garden, they were being greeted by smiles at the door. A little ahead was a giant canopy filled with tables and vendors, in the back a stage and somewhere was the smell of tacos wafting...