The Mission

Adrian Reece | Raising Writers Class: Two Sides to Every Story They brief us at 0200.Fluorescent lights. No windows. The kind of room that smells like old coffee and paperthat shouldn’t exist. A map pinned to the wall. A building circled in red. No insignia. Nocountry named out loud.“Quick in. Quick out,” someone says.They always […]

Addison McGurn Short Story

Please Note: No Witches Were Burnt Alive During the Making of This Story by Addison McGurn, 8th Grade Once upon a time, in a dark forest, in a cozy little cottage, there lived an old witch. Of course, her name wasn’t actually “The Witch.” That’s just what everybody called her. We’ll get to that in […]

Beatrice Archer and the French Chase

By Maggie ForsmanGrade 5 Detective Beatrice Archer tightened her golden yellow ascot and quickly grabbed her sunglasses as she stepped out of her apartment onto the busy street of New York City. She was a short-statured, middle-aged woman, who could find clues easily with her partner, William J. She had a stressful career being a […]

A Life of Cooking, Family, and Good Memories

By JJ Brudi | December 2024 | Journalism Class After a few years working for Ford Motor Company designing classic mustangs, Harlan (Pete) Peterson became a cooking aficionado and ended up owning a restaurant for 25 years in Northern Michigan. “I went to college for almost three years and I was hired by Ford, and […]

Zront Williams

By Brooke Reese | Raising Writers 2026 “A Whale of a Tale: Writing a Tall Tale” One summer afternoon, Zront Williams was chilling near the trees in his favorite chair. He was 50 feet tall and he wore a shiny gray jumpsuit with tap shoes. His hair was black, his nose long, and his eyes […]