THE SMOKE SIGNAL

THE SMOKE SIGNAL

THE SMOKE SIGNAL

In partnership with the Hart Smoke Signal Staff, the Hart Renaissance Man Club, and and the Equity and Diversity Collaborative
Prose (Fiction)
Outer Limits
Tristan Purfoy March 17, 2023

It’s the year 5,000. Society’s broken in the eyes of the beholder. Thirty five billion people living in a caged society are left to rot with...

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Prose (Fiction)
The Fisherman Story
Isa Magee March 17, 2023

Once upon a time, there was a patient fisherman. He would wait at the harbor for hours and hours everyday trying to find a big fish for the biggest...

Prose (Fiction)
Time is a Construct
Hannah Wobrock March 21, 2022

Falling. She wakes to a low rushing sound, tendrils of fine orange sand waving in her face as if to say hello. She stands up, brushing the...

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Prose (Fiction)
The Mojave Man
Ethan Everts March 21, 2022

Back in the 60’s, there was a wave of experimentation done to humanity by the United States federal government for the achievement of a better...

Prose (Fiction)
 A Peculiar Initiation
Ava Smith March 21, 2022

I slowly opened the door, and had to cover my hand to keep my gasp from being audible. A group of people stood in red and black cloaks, surrounded...

Prose (Fiction)
Heart Wrecked
Caterina Monjoy March 21, 2022

No. This is not happening. I am not on this island right now. He did not break my heart into a million pieces. I am not stuck. I breathed trying...

Prose (Fiction)
You Look Quite Divine Tonight
Talia Einaudi March 21, 2022

Madame Apolline La Lune remembered the letter from Conrad MacDowell urging her to come to the Iberian Peninsula and help him with his newest...

Prose (Fiction)
Career Day
Anonymous March 21, 2022

“It was unlike anything you could ever imagine,” I said with almost enough enthusiasm to convince these kids. I sat in front of the group...

Prose (Fiction)
Shipwrecked Home
Michaela Okuyama March 21, 2022

I sit with a cigarette hanging loosely from the tips of my fingers, daring to catch into the wind and sink down in the blue sea from the ship...

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Poetry
The Girl On Fire
Bella Solomon March 17, 2023

Katniss Everdeen Reserved and ordinary Thinking of her sister Becomes a tribute and a priority   She enters the arena with...

Poetry
The Knight Without Armour 
Flinch Vallin March 17, 2023

I wish to be the chivalrous man of legends A knight in shining armor Or to be a handsome rough faced rouge would come in second One...

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Poetry
Pencil, Paper, Experiment, Rinse, Repeat
Avery Burgess March 17, 2023

Pencil, paper, experiment, rinse, repeat… Pencil, Paper, Experiment, Rinse, Repeat!  PENCIL, PAPER, EXPERIMENT, RINSE, REPEAT!!!  That’s...

Poetry
 I ate Remy 
Hector Dominguez March 17, 2023

Truth be told– “Anyone can cook, but only the fearless can be great” Remy, you yaknow Ratatouille yeah he really ate What made that...

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Poetry
Midnight Call
Anonymous March 17, 2023

Midnight calls Lying on my belly Kicking my feet in the air A smile itching at my teeth   Oh, how no one compares   On...

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Poetry
Love is
Hannah Wobrock March 17, 2023

Love is chocolate cake, green walls, full bookshelves, a new dress;   Love is my brother’s smile, my sister’s...

Poetry
Communion of the Damned
Flinch Vallin March 17, 2023

Haunted words flow fourth Passing by rotten teeth “Oh how the mighty fall” just below salvation  Life is a delicate gift  But...

Poetry
Kaleidoscope
Serena Erickson March 21, 2022

Whose Kaleidoscope is that? I think I know, It's owner is quite happy though. Full of joy like a vivid rainbow. I watch her laugh. I...

Poetry
New Years Resolution
Mary Ellie Magsaysay March 21, 2022

For the new year, I am the same. The same as I am different. My eyes are still the same and probably my height, maybe my hair will grow and my...

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Poetry
A Billion Beautiful Faces
Katelyn Miller March 21, 2022

  All my life, I have been surrounded by a billion beautiful faces    Each one delightfully different from the last   They...

Poetry
Butterflies.
Alisa Keawprasert March 21, 2022

As a kid I never liked butterflies.  It would scare me, one of the many fears I had, childish I know. When I think of the thought of getting...

Poetry
I Used to Know You
Anabelle Smith March 21, 2022

We may not be side by side anymore.  But,  I hope you think of me when you walk in the rain. I hope you think of me when you drink...

Poetry
Photograph
Abigail Erickson March 21, 2022

  You were my photographic dream.  I made you my reality  Yet you left me. It's time for me to leave this stage, I'm in...

Poetry
Him.
Anonymous March 21, 2022

When I think about him, I think about how he’s kind. So kind to the point he wouldn’t want to hurt another person’s emotions. When...

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Drama
Abuelito
Lucas Gomez March 17, 2023

INT. DINER IN LOS ANGELES - NOON   There are a few guests in the booths and chairs of a diner being cooled by a small ceiling fan....

Drama
TWIZZLER
Samuel Menell March 21, 2022

OPEN on a car pulling up to a gas station. The car creeps into an open spot, halting. The car sits silently. Luke (O.S.) ... Two dollars...

Drama
Not a Coward
Lacey Lennington March 21, 2022

Intended Message Trust and Honesty Intended Audience Anyone Characters Simsek Patterson: Goes by Sim. A shy yet newly confident 14 year...

Drama
Where Your Loyalty Lies
Mary Ellie Magsaysay March 21, 2022

Characters King Luther, a father figure role model with complex beliefs.    Prince Adam, a representation of good and justice.    Soldier,...

A “slice of the ocean”
Art and Photography
A “slice of the ocean”
An oil pastel artwork made to show a “slice of the ocean” with a coral reef leading back into the distance
Gabby Nickels March 20, 2023

Furry
Art and Photography
Furry
This is a photograph of one of my friends cats I was trying to capture the cat from an angle that would make it interesting to view.
Elizabeth Maguire March 20, 2023

Art and Photography
Shattered Beauty
Jade Jaime March 21, 2022

Art and Photography
Room in Perspective
Cherry Angeli Clanor March 21, 2022

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Prose (Nonfiction)
Hart High School: A Friday Night Lights Imitation
My submission is an imitation of the opening passage of Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger, written for Hart.
Jenna Ju March 17, 2023

You walk into Hart for the first time and become overwhelmed by the atmosphere that is so hectic, so bustling that something rises in your chest,...

Prose (Nonfiction)
The Physical Description of Los Angeles
This is an imitation of an excerpt from "Friday Night Lights" by H.G. Bissinger.
Anna Philipous March 17, 2023

You drive into the heart of Los Angeles on Friday for the first time and become overwhelmed by the instant culture shift that something inside...

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Prose (Nonfiction)
The Cards
Hector Dominguez March 17, 2023

It was a normal Sunday night in one of Santa Clarita’s oldest and finest remaining locally owned pizza parlors. There was nothing odd about...

Prose (Nonfiction)
Definitely Anonymous Formal Complaint to Mr. Borish regarding Honors Precalculus “test limits mc”
A note from the author: "This work is a formal complaint to Mr. Borish. Despite this test being last semester and having no relevance to anything right now, my friends want me to do this and I agreed this would be something pretty funny to submit. Something to note is that Borish loved the essay, didn’t change my grade though. It was also supposed to be anonymous."
Bryce Iwai March 17, 2023

The day of the limits test was upon theMr. And the author thought he was ready, but in reality, he failed. Miserably, may I add. The twenty-question...

Prose (Nonfiction)
A General History of La Purísima y La Gritería
This prose nonfiction is an informative short essay that provides the reader with a very general background knowledge of how an exclusively Nicaraguan tradition came to be celebrated and enhanced by multiple communities in Louisiana.
Miranda Solis March 21, 2022

Under the autocratic dictatorship of the Somoza family, the semi-feudalist economy of Nicaragua accumulated wealth through foreign aid siphoning,...

Prose (Nonfiction)
How Sexism Presents Itself In The Show, "Gilligan’s Island"
This prose nonfiction is an explanatory essay about the sexism portrayed in a 60's sitcom
Kaia Cavin March 21, 2022

The Oxford Dictionary defines sexism as, “prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, based on sex.”(Oxford English...

Prose (Nonfiction)
An imitation of "Friday Night Lights" by H.G. Bissinger based on a physical description of the Nurburgring, Germany.
Paul Travis March 21, 2022

As you first pull into the Nurburgring for the first time you become immersed by the state of the road course, as if butterflies are flying around...

Prose (Nonfiction)
Why a Renaissance Man would Write
Breeze Aguilar March 21, 2022

Someone once asked me why a Renaissance man would write. Why, when his time has been taken up by various curiosities in the arts and sciences?...

Prose (Nonfiction)
A Drive Through Life
A Drive Through Life is a "imitation writing" work based off of the opening of "Friday Night Lights" by H.G. Bissinger.
Timothy Phan March 21, 2022

You emerge from the womb and are pressed into a world so big and so bright that something swells up inside, something that makes you feel simultaneously...

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