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  • September 30Legendary strikes bears once more as golden stallion makes an appearance.
  • May 20Freshman student finishes entire book; English department left in shock.
  • May 20Plaid launch party set for Tuesday, May 27 at City of Asylum.
  • May 20Molloy Posner Hall renovations set to begin on June 1.
  • May 20WT sends wide-ranging slate of runners to PIAA track and field championships.
  • May 20WT senior prank not as funny as when they made the library light fixture a fish tank.
  • October 28WT faces IRS audit over unreported bake sale income
  • November 22Voices Tries Out "Breaking News" System to Mixed Reviews
the student news site of Winchester Thurston School

VOICES

the student news site of Winchester Thurston School

VOICES

Esme Bessor-Foreman, Writer

Ever the modernday Jane Austen, she reads vigrously, the sound of pages turning filling the room in which she sits. To create content she learns and practices, listening to cafe and rain sounds produced by her computer as ambient white noise. She is truly an accomplished lady if we might say, one versed in guitar, languages, drawing, reading, as well as writing, something considered ahead of her time. Weaving crafty stories, she sends them in to be edited and then eventually rejected. You see, no good editor of the modern age could let a woman publish such a thing! So instead, if her stories are rejected, she is instructed to write book reviews to retain her job. I’m sure you are curious as to why we would let her express her opinion instead of simply a fictional story? Well that is where we come in. She sends the paper in, yes, but then through the editing process her reviews are entirely altered by our editing team. I urge you to read her reviews, but know that none of the views expressed are actually hers!

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Horror and Halloween-Adjacent Movies That Correspond With Classic WT Experiences

Horror and Halloween-Adjacent Movies That Correspond With Classic WT Experiences

Esmé Bessor-Foreman October 29, 2019

As many an unimaginative horror movie has quipped, “high school is hell”—and WT is no exception. Here are a few of my favorite spooky movies that aim to validate the bizarre occurrences that happen...

1738 By Todd Hido

Et Cetera for February

Esmé Bessor-Foreman March 11, 2019

Dark February is an odd month. Although technically the last classified as the last dregs of winter, it feels the longest, bleakest, and furthest away from summer. It lacks the hopeful possibilities...

The Wife by Meg Wolitzer

The Wife by Meg Wolitzer

Esmé Bessor-Foreman March 11, 2019

Clocking in at a mere 219 pages, Meg Wolitzer’s The Wife packs a dense punch, as though a much larger novel had been shrunken down through some Ant-Man technology into this slim volume. Told from...

Stardust Jacket Cover, Neil Gaiman

Between the Lines: Monthly Book Reviews

Esmé Bessor-Foreman, Writer January 23, 2019

  January: Stardust by Neil Gaiman Stardust is a fairytale, fitting in far better with the likes of Grimm than of Disney. The tale follows Tristran Thorn, a lovesick eighteen-year-old who...

Yu Hong, "Cloud Layer"

Et Cetera: Bi-Weekly Recommendations

Esmé Bessor-Foreman, Writer January 23, 2019

Et Cetera: Bi-Weekly Recommendations by Esmé Bessor-Foreman “Cloud Layer” by Yu Hong   Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Welcome to 2019, where the government is still shutdown and eggs are...

Between the Lines: Monthly Book Reviews

Between the Lines: Monthly Book Reviews

Esmé Bessor-Foreman December 19, 2018

  When one thinks of childhood and teenagedom, death tends to stick to the periphery, if anywhere. Alison Bechdel’s autobiographical graphic novel Fun Home flips the script and puts death...

Et Cetera: Bi-Weekly Recommendations

Esmé Bessor-Foreman December 19, 2018

“The Crash and Burn of Dolce & Gabbana” by Vanessa Friedman and Sui-Lee Wee, from the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/fashion/dolce-gabbana-china-disaster-backlash.html) I...

Between the Lines: Monthly Book Reviews

Esmé Bessor-Foreman November 27, 2018

October: The Shining by Stephen King Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 saga of suffering, The Shining, remains one of the most highly acclaimed, recognizable, and frightening horror movies of all time nearly...

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