SUBMISSIONS

Submissions are accepted on a regular basis, year-round.
Can include, short stories, essays, poetry and prose.
Must not exceed 3,000 words.
Must be written by a current ESA student, or alumni.
Submissions are accepted: e.s.say.says@gmail.com

Friday 1 January 2016

Same by Anonymous

STUDENT #1
I am so tired

STUDENT #2
Same.

STUDENT #1
Don’t you ever feel like school is actually a prison

STUDENT #2
True.

STUDENT #1
I mean you follow a strict routine can’t talk out of order we even have set times for walking eating and we have to ask to go to the bathroom

STUDENT #2
I feel that.

STUDENT #1
Authoritarian structure attendance enforced by the law funded by taxes the lights on the ceiling are probably the same ones used in a correctional facility they’re so fucking

TEACHER
Language.

STUDENT #1
Oh shit sorry

Sometimes I feel like no one listens to me or cares about my thoughts and feelings about the world

STUDENT #2
Me too.

TEACHER
Please quiet down.