Pandora's Ink Digital Magazine

Written by Anna Kung from Phillips Academy-Andover, Massachusetts, USA A silent river, ever wide, that carries all who step inside. Moments drift like fallen leaves, caught in winds that no one sees. It doesn’t pause; it doesn’t wait, for love or loss, for joy or fate. It heals, it steals, it fades, it grows: this mystery nobody knows. In childhood's laugh, in an elder's sigh, it whispers softly as years go by. It teaches gently, sometimes rough, that now is fleeting—never e

Written by Angela Zhou from Lakeview, Louisiana, USA It's hard not to take something pretty with you, things like those tiny, saturated flowers on the sidewalks. A forgotten spring tucked away in the pockets of my jeans. Or the stars, glittering across the sky, things I cannot touch. Things I cannot take. Things that I wished to place in the midnight sky, methodically and devotedly, but didn't. Those splendid pieces of fragmented time, I wanted to melt inside. Remember to c

Music written and recorded by Faye Yang from Key Stone Academy in Beijing, China First sight, I fall for you Bright eyes, shining through Through touch, I fall for you Will dance in the ocean blue Whisper down the youth Hold my hand through hue Then will run through Someday I wish you be mine That day will dance in the ocean blue I never experienced something like this I never want to fall again I don’t to want survive I want to live life That day we might vanish Someda

Written by Cynthia Li from China You were shooting hoops on the basketball court. I sat on the nearby grassland, watching you dribble the ball, then leap upward. Slowly, I shut my eyes, imagining myself standing on the Moon. I once thought about building a cabin in the moon crater, for it shields from wind and storm, feeling like the embrace of a loving mother. I took out my shovel and dug into the tough frozen surface, each piece shattering like brittle bones. Was the Moon f