Katie Brown
Oct 1, 20243 min read
Bethel Creatives, no. 16: Katie Bracey
Interview conducted by Katie Brown in the The Crossings’s series on creativity and diversity within Bethel University’s student body. The...
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Olivia Holtrgren
Mar 21, 202411 min read
India's Afterlife
After her heart stopped in her sleep at age nineteen, India Romero woke up—not to the  last-remembered comfort of her bed but in a gray...
Elijah Bansen
Mar 7, 202411 min read
Lost Boys
I miss the old days. Back then, the lost and abandoned used to crowd my woods, eager to join my crew, where hardly a care in the world...
Keira Steinburg
Apr 12, 20235 min read
The Stars Above
An ocean of neon-colored lights and cement sprawled out behind them. Above, artificial stars flickered. Ahead, the rhythmic marching of...
Emma McNamara
Mar 10, 202319 min read
Seize
Hannah stepped off the bus and approached her school. She gave her blonde ponytail one final tug to tighten it and put her hands in the...
Elijah Bansen
Feb 5, 20236 min read
He Who Hunts Us All
Silence at last. It was a feeling only dreamed of as of late. Yet here it was, still and quiet as a sleeping newborn. But there was no...
Kadie Sue Martin
Feb 5, 202314 min read
The Villain
"So. . . how about that weather?" Amber hesitantly tried to make conversation. "Don't make me put the gag back on," Delirium snarled at...
Elijah Bansen
Nov 18, 20224 min read
Yet Still We Remain
The old god fell today. Last of his kind, he had been with us for nigh on seven generations, or so the queen mother says. Always he...
Gabrielle Swartzentruber
Nov 4, 202211 min read
The Past as It Was, Is, And Ever Shall Be
Cassie Crawford straightened her mantle for the third time as the museum director slung a sundial necklace over her head. “Are you...
Elijah Bansen
Oct 22, 202211 min read
Orbit
Thup…Fwp………Thup…Fwp………Thup…Fwp… The tennis ball bounced cleanly off the wall and sailed back into his hand. He threw it again....
Madison Carter
Oct 14, 20229 min read
Carroll County Conspiracy of Anna Tinkle
Carroll County, Indiana is a small community where word travels fast and gossip travels even faster. This is how the story of Anna...
Grace Dodd
Sep 30, 20225 min read
The Reflection
I bend down and stare into the still, blue, calm river; it is almost hypnotizing. My reflection is as clear as can be.
Elijah Bansen
Apr 25, 202214 min read
Kleftimaylu
Stillness. Everything was still across the dusty landscape as he trudged up the path toward the ranch. There were no crops to be seen in...
Corbin Knight
Mar 28, 202212 min read
The Storm
“God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the...
Taylor Knight
Nov 19, 202113 min read
To Save a Life
Snow clothed the landscape in freezing white, laying across the earth like a blanket of death for those ill-prepared. Fortunately for the...
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