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Butte College's Editorially Independent Student Voice

THE ROADRUNNER

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Last Chance to Check Out The Pathways Art Gallery

Last Chance to Check Out The Pathways Art Gallery

"Uncover, Uplift, and Unite"
Alani Ethelbah, Staff Writer April 9, 2025

If you’ve yet to do so, now's the last chance to check out the annual U in Butte art show. Opening officially on the first of this month, the gallery will now be coming to a close this Wednesday, and...

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Crocodile Tears

Cheyenne Wasson, Guest Contributor April 6, 2025

I wish I could put this feeling in a bottle So that I could show you what it feels like.   So you can taste it and smell it and hate it before you tell me to suck it up. I think these are what...

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Love’s Knife Fight

Garrett Fernandez, Guest Contributor March 30, 2025

And wouldn't you know, all about how this is supposed to go— from shouting fights and a calendar filled with shouting nights.   Dead ends that don't die in your sleep.   Light...

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A medieval knight with his young bride. Creative Commons.

The Glow

Rey Quigley, Journalism Club Member March 29, 2025

Her curls bounce with newfound life  her eyes shine with a glimmer that only  appears when she’s full of love,   full of life    a lover at heart, though often weeping  it...

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A fish and bird may indeed fall in love but where would they live?

A fish and bird may indeed fall in love but where would they live?

Emily Solorio, Journalism Club Member March 23, 2025

In a world where two souls Cannot touch nor collide A bird and a fish fell in love, And they yearn to reunite.   Glistening tides call the fish As the breeze of wind calls the bird.     In...

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Photo courtesy of Garrett Fernandez

Sand Castles wash away with the Waves too

Garrett Fernandez, Guest Contributor March 16, 2025
A reflective poem from a Butte Student
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Rey Quigley in Long Beach Ca, Taken by Justin Stock

Train Wreck

Rey Quigley, Journalism Club Member March 15, 2025
A guest contributed poem about being the Metro in LA
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Roomies

A poem about having a roommate you hate, relatable for college students?
Justin Stock, Editor-in-Chief March 2, 2025
A poem about having a roommate you hate, relatable for college students?
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Loss - A sculpture by Jane Mortimer from Unsplash

The Dog That Weeps

A brief examination of guilt, atonement, and the masochism of self-punishment.
Igor Green, Guest Writer March 1, 2025

“The dog that weeps after it kills is no better than the dog that doesn’t. My guilt will not purify me.” This quote has been floating endlessly through the corridors of the internet for some time...

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Odette

Rey Quigley, Guest Contributor February 23, 2025
Detailed and Beautifully written Short Story of forbidden romance.
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“Mistimed Romance”

Here's a short creative writing piece that I've unearthed from the depths.
Juan R. Valencia, Editor-in-Chief February 22, 2025
Does this remind you of anyone?
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Early 90s in Compton, CA.  Little Karina is smiling big for the camera and is seen wearing a black tee shirt with cuffed blue jeans while standing outside of her childhood home. To her right is her garden. In the background are her now-deceased father, two uncles, and her small cousin.

Karina’s Secret Garden

Inspired be a favorite childhood book, "The Secret Garden," the writer contemplates the difference between a neighborhood and a home.
Karina Itzcoatl, Guest Contributor February 15, 2025

Karina lived here once, a place that helped shape her understanding of the world. She has never forgotten it, no matter how much it has changed through the decades. The interior of her childhood home was...

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