SAINTS &
FLEURS
BY YOUTH, FOR YOUTH
"The earth is just a rock without the voices of art" - Kendrick Lamar
"The earth is just a rock without the voices of art" - Kendrick Lamar
Welcome to Saints & Fleurs! We are a literary magazine by youth, for youth, excited to create a platform to allow high schools to share their stories and voices. If you have a story you want to share or a message you want to send, make sure to submit to our first issue!
Our top featured Poetry work from Issue 2 is "niu rou mian recipe."
by Cady Wu, selected for her excellent use of form and descriptive imagery.
The poem is an ode to her late grandmother and uncle, exploring themes of
cultural food, grief, ritual, and memory. Read here.
Favorite quote from the work:
"stir in the sunlit kitchen, the memories // just almost // falling off the bone."
Our top featured work of fiction from Issue 1 is "Faded Letters and Garden Ghost",
by Cecy Grace. We admire the artistic choices of imagery used in internal monologue
and description, and the tactful depiction of a tragedy of free love. Read here.
Favorite quote from the work:
"She had taken Marion’s last chance to mend a love unraveling at the seams."
Our top featured Nonfiction work from Issue 1 is "The Bright Midnight Sky",
by Isabelle Wang, selected for the exceptional clarity, insightfulness, and
research into the themes of light pollution and its creative portrayal and
structure in her work. Read here
Favorite quote from the work:
"It didn't look like a night sky. It wasn't pitch-black,
it didn't contain the gravity of the absence of light, it didn't
hold the brilliance of a sea of stars and planets. It looked
like jaundice was seeping slowly into the sky."