An Ode to Loneliness

Shyla Meighan • May 14, 2026

you are the silence before the storm. an unsettling calm.   you are a moment to myself, a peaceful decompression.   you are a silent household where I’ll let myself sing...

Screw

Shyla Meighan • May 14, 2026

the day fades & my skin I shed laid up in bed I breathe a sigh the moon is high, the end is nigh & i’m just trying to get by.   no longer does my hearts songs sing to things...

Feast

Shyla Meighan • May 14, 2026

chop me up & serve me sweet for all the people to eat starving so her fat is gone pure red meat left to chew on the girl gives a selfless feast so treat your meal like it’s a priest  make...

Sweetheart

Shyla Meighan • May 14, 2026

I lay my head on your chest  after my lips have left yours, & I hear that thumping in your chest as I put my ear up to your heart.   ba-dump.   ba-dump.    ba-dump.   the...

Cold

Shyla Meighan • May 14, 2026

I watch as the last storms snow  begins to melt away   finally fading into the green-ish grass to be forgotten until next winter    at least I hoped to forget.   news...

Drama club performs play ‘Radium Girls’

Shyla Meighan, Website Editor • November 24, 2025

This fall, the Monroe-Woodbury Drama Club performed “Radium Girls”, a retelling of the legal battles that a group of watch dial painters fought after they contracted radiation poisoning at their...

River

Shyla Meighan, Writer • November 13, 2025

before I entered your terrain I considered myself whole. I knew what I was  before you but you drew me in.   so, with you, deny me the truth, & rub salt in my wounds &...

Hair

Shyla Meighan, Writer • November 13, 2025

I finally cut my hair. it took four years of passive contemplation  to finally make that decision.   I sat in the chair &  watched as bits of purple  fluttered to the ground...

Drama club presents scaled down musical with small cast, limited rehearsal time

Shyla Meighan, Staff Writer • June 5, 2025

This June the Monroe-Woodbury Drama Club presents "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" which contrary to popular belief, is not an actual spelling bee, but instead a musical which chronicles a...

Photogallery: Student Artists Showcase Work At Annual Art Show

Shyla Meighan, Staff Writer • May 16, 2025

Senior art majors displayed their art work at the annual student Art Show held in the high school's wrestling room on Friday, May 2. All photos by Shyla Meighan.

[Photo] Students direct drama club production of “All in the Timing”

Julia Yustein, Staff Writer • May 14, 2025

Directors of "All in the Timing"--seniors Jacob Ciriello, Josh Gorlin and Tyler Landusky--talk during a performance after school on April 29.

Poll: Monroe-Woodbury High School Students Say They Aren’t Getting Enough Sleep

Traegan Soto, Shyla Meighan, Kyle Imhof, Arianne Uribe, and Benicio Garcia • May 5, 2025

A typical day at Monroe-Woodbury High School starts at 7:08 a.m. when the first bell rings. However, this start time has been a subject of discussion for many years. Both lack of sleep and too early start...

Right

Shyla Meighan, Poet • May 3, 2025

Congratulations! After 16 long years of your life, You’ve finally become what we wanted.   Gone are those silly fantasies of  Being free to love as you’d like. I told you it...

The Last Glass

Shyla Meighan, Poet • April 23, 2025

I’ll say I like the taste Partially because I do but also to deny that something’s wrong   I’ll pick up a glass as a pick me up begging me to pick it up & sip   &...

[Photo] OPINION: Serious commitment to music lessons benefits students

Samantha-James Lindsay, Contributing Writer • March 10, 2025

Borealis

Shyla Meighan, Writer • January 7, 2025

you say the sky is beautiful tonight  so I take your word & I step outside   alas, the sky where I am is almost the same as always a slight hint of purple grazes it’s...

Bugging

Shyla Meighan, Writer • January 7, 2025

Am I like, Being annoying?   I know you’re busy & I know you usually love to talk to me, I mean, how can you not, but, I just feel like I’m bugging you in a way.   Which...

Charade

Shyla Meighan, Writer • January 7, 2025

I don’t want you to worry, so I’ll put up a charade cause it’s really not that big a deal I know I’ll manage!   & I just know I’d be a nuisance having those walls down...

Horizon

Shyla Meighan, Writer • January 7, 2025

I’m glad I can at least deal with it I can always manage but I always hate the thought of it   I hate how they make you feel  & how I don’t see an out for you not through...

Upcoming Project: “Masked, Threaded, Cut.”

Traegan Soto and Shyla Meighan • November 26, 2024

Written by: Traegan Soto Artwork by: Shyla Meighan   “Masked, Threaded, Cut.” is an upcoming project in 2025 written in verse by Traegan Soto; brought to life with artwork by Shyla Meighan....

Actors battle on stage in the Drama Club’s production of “The Three Musketeers”

Shyla Meighan, Writer • November 18, 2024

The Monroe-Woodbury Drama Club explores the question, "What if my dream is to fight people for the French King Louis XIII?” in their fall production of "The Three Musketeers." The play will be performed...

Eternity

Shyla Meighan • November 14, 2024

every so often on the rare occasion I get the chance to step foot outside at night, without a watchful eye, I look up at the stars in the cool, peaceful night & oh, how I love the stars. how...