2026, What’s the best part of Halloween? Is it the excessive candy, the crowds, or the creative costumes? Every costume is unique, and some are worth noting for next year. Though Halloween is a single night, it’d be great to have a few extra days to fit in more costume ideas instead of choosing just one. 1. Cupcake/Sweet Treat Dressing up as a cupcake is cute and creative, and you’ve got to be sweet! The small details in the frosting and sprinkles really make up the basis of

Photos taken in 2022 Look beyond the big, eye-catching scenes and notice the fruit in the stand, the flowers blooming, and the attention to detail in everyday life.

Agatha Raymon walked down the Lunar ‘Park,’ staring up at the bright stars above. Metal walls and thick, transparent windows and ceiling surrounded her on the walkway. It was the closest someone on the lunar colony could get to ‘outdoorsy’ without donning a space suit and trying to explain to Earth why they made such an expensive trip. Not that there could be that many consequences. Everyone was already worked to death around here, and being sent to Earth was a dream for man

This week was dominated by several large stories around the world. Notably, the Trump administration purchasing nearly four hundred million gallons of diesel from Russia, another pause on military strikes in Iran, the announcement of the first public execution in the United States since 1936, democrats ahead of republicans in polling, multiple Houthi attacks in Saudi Arabia, Gaza entering its second year of ceasefire, and the war in Ukraine enters its third year of stalemate.

After a season loaded with injuries, some very tough losses, and some of the toughest competition on the island, Parker Girls Volleyball had one more opportunity to go one better. They finished the season 10-5 and entered the BIIF championship as the #2 seed against their perennial rivals, Hawaiʻi Preparatory Academy. It was a thrilling 5-set battle that saw Parker come back from a 2-set deficit to win their second straight BIIF title! After an unassailable 16-0 season the ye

And suddenly I wish to be my cat. Let my biggest worry be what I play with or use the bathroom. I wish for that simplicity I felt when I was a kid, because at some point, I got too good at tying my shoelaces, and even better at keeping my grievances in my mouth. It didn’t used to take this much work to be just good. Happiness isn’t a ball of yarn or colored crayons anymore. It’s going to therapy just to tell yourself the bad stuff was that bad, and it did hurt. But you made i

i don't like the ocean but your blue eyes feel so close to the ocean-- like calm, subtle waves slight breeze you put me to ease always each freckle lies a beautiful aspect like speckled sand i feel your skin on me, warm and soft like warm water flowing over your hands i once feared the ocean, but you've changed me

Prologue: “It takes four days for a Willow’s Fever patient to die. That is, four days after the first symptoms appear. The first day, the patient merely believes they ate something wrong or have caught a minor cold. There’s some coughing, a minor stomach ache, but not much else. The second day, though, the family has gotten suspicious, usually the patient too, but sometimes they will remain in denial. The coughing sometimes results in blood, the patient can hardly get out o

You told me to be gentle, I know. But I did not expect the way time was ripped out of my hands. I clutched it, grabbed the remnants I could reach, dug my nails into its soft skin and did not let go. But the sun set then rose again. Time inevitably moved onward, with me spinning with the earth. You, several rotations behind. I still remember being held in a too-tight embrace. I tried to pull you back but you tugged away. Still I held your hand until you let go, carefully,

I am afraid of growing up. I say it as if naming it might slow it. I continue to speak such words as if my spoken word could bargain with inevitability. The body declares what it cannot keep. I have already seen it in my father. The way he carries years now, In a look that does not belong to any single day but to many days that stain and do not lift. And I think of his father, gone now. Every day of work etched into his eyes. My father is beginning to wear that same expressio

A city made of clouds wanders the earth, walls of frozen tears obscuring it from the people below, an opaque swath of water except for a gate through which the spirits may enter. The city of the ancients is where all spirits go when they die, ascending to the heavenly city by the will of their gods. The world never sees the darkness of night, but it never sees the light of true day. For hidden in the depths of the city is the glory of the sun, bringing light and warmth to t

And after all, maybe life wasn’t meant to be defined by the grand moments, but by the quiet ones we forget to keep. The sound of waves moving with ease, the warmth of a familiar voice, the little things that ask for nothing, but our attention. Maybe happiness was never something we had to find, because maybe, happiness was always here, hiding in the little things, but we were too busy to notice.