Pandora's Ink Digital Magazine

Written by Yuze Zhu from St. George's School, Rhode Island, USA In 2022, the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine War marked the start of a new era of warfare technology. The term “drone warfare” was suddenly seen in headlines about this conflict in publications across the world. Inexpensive small drones went from being used by civilians for taking pictures and bringing pleasure to being transformed into mass-produced killing machines. Yet new technology brings new pollution and w

Written by Miranda Le from Tarbut V'torah Community Day School, Vermont, USA Letter I Dear Mother Nature, Though you may never receive this, I think I should introduce myself. I’m a human. I wonder: do you know how much beauty you’ve created? Many take your gifts for granted; I used to be one of them. I will send you a series of letters. Perhaps through them, you can see how some of us are starting to understand your sorrow. I promise there are possibilities, even if you

Written by Iris Zhu from Deerfield Academy, Massachusetts, USA I am woken by the grey that muffles the sky. On my bedside the candle burns white as light– melting, melting; its supple wax, like sweat dried into salt turns an opaque, rigor mortis stiff. The great huffing and puffing of man, it curls like a sigh of frost seeping over a morning meadow– out from the esophagus of metal organs, out into the miserable evening stretched against night. It licks gilded, gum-sticky hand