This Isn't High School Anymore
Even if the graduation ceremony happened to be rather anticlimactic, nothing could've prepared me for the summer after.
Joni Lopez · May 17, 2026
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Even if the graduation ceremony happened to be rather anticlimactic, nothing could've prepared me for the summer after.
Joni Lopez · May 17, 2026
It happened every few months, and this was one of those moments.
Joni Lopez · Apr 1, 2026
For as long as I could think, I etched my name onto surfaces that remained still even as I moved. The walls are filled with imprints, pencil and pen alike. Names, symbols only they would understand. If one could make…
Joni Lopez · Feb 3, 2026
The tie they had made me wear was put on too tightly. I couldn't breathe. "You couldn't do that, you never will." That's what they've always told me whenever I say I can think for myself—that I should stick to doing…
Joni Lopez · Jan 13, 2026