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Joe LImpenetrable Fortress at the End of Time
◯ Hope Hope Hope Hope Hope Did you know If you say something enough...
Why should we stop watching reaction videos?
Written by James Z In October of 2022, Youtuber Jacksfilms created a second channel named...
An Interview with a Content Creator
In November of 2021, I came across an official account called “white space”. This account...
Escape to Hamsterdam
I’m a hamster Who’s apparently being trapped in a annoying guy’s house. I mean, the...
Issue 8 Submission Window Extended
Dear Readers and Artists, The Issue 8 submission deadline has been extended to November 13th....
Discovering Beauty Through Poetry
It’s a pleasant experience reading Mia’s poetry. I’ve often been amazed by her deep understanding of complex...
How Anthropology Teaches Me the Truth
I encountered Kiwi in a Shanghai rarity: a foreign bookstore. I was staring at a...
Art, Creativity, & Inspiration with Destiny G
Destiny GMy art teacher introduced us to Rube Goldberg a while ago and his work inspired...
The Kick of Happiness
A ball swooshes across the grass field and slams into the white net. The girls...
Separation: A Poem
What appears in your mind when you see the word “separation”? Do you see the...
This is not the end…
Graduation is a season of celebration. It is the start of our transition from teenagers to...
A Few Words from the Founder
At PVLSE’s first anniversary dinner, Dr. Thorpe, the founder of the Inkwell Writing of Shanghai,...
Music of Another City
Music has always played an important role in my life. On the days when my...
The Crown
The last beam of sunlight descended into the sea; the shimmers decayed in oscillating waves,...
Childhood / Love
✿✿✿ What is love? Two middle schoolers are helping us with answering that question: ✿✿✿
A Lesson on Love from Liverpool
Richard3-0 to Wolves. Yet another disappointing defeat in the league. The team has plays with...
Sound of the Sea
Right foot. Left foot. Right foot. As her left foot pushes down for the second...
Why I, As a Writer, Don’t Fear the AI Revolution
Perhaps the title is misleading. There are certainly things I’m concerned about—for one, issues of...
A Low Budget Guide: Part 1
✦ Dear Diary, It must be painful for you to exist without having any control...
Death? Is She Here?
As I lie on my bed, alone with my thoughts, I stumble on a curious...
Pantoum of the Bluefin Tuna
🐟 Red spilled into the transparent blue, my lungs hauled out by a hook. Quickly...
Tipsy Romance
♥♡ I love watching the sunset I love watching the sunset They say People like...
To Winter
❆ Oh winter I fear thee, For icicles do freeze. Seagulls hurry their way over...
Show and Tell
✦ show and tell is only show. show me feet gliding on water. show me...
The lover who was left behind
Heaven is a place on earth, When I’m with you my willow, Visions of a...
Untitled Piece
Forms of art have this sensational ability to evoke emotion. Fortunately, this phenomenon doesn’t confine itself...
Holiday Spirit with The PVLSE
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Please enjoy the selected collage of festive vibes presented...
We All Love When Our TOEFL Exams Get Cancelled
After three years of lockdowns, the pandemic has finally ended. The joy of finally being...
The Sunflower not in Summer
✿❀✿❀✿ She watched the birds around her sing. She watched the trees around her inhale...
I Found Love / To Win Me Over
I Found Love (and he’s not like what you said he’d be) Love is a...
Robert Nairn Jr.’s Dramatic Journey
This week, The PVLSE magazine sat down with Robert, a high school student in Shanghai, to talk...
A Letter to God
✶ I haven’t seen the clouds sweeping through the ceiling for so long, a Venus...
Gazing Into Hanfei Yu’s Mirror
Recently, The PVLSE team warmly welcomed Hanfei Yu, winner of the first and second prize in the...
How I Spent My Golden Week…
✲ DAY 1 ✲ DAY 2 ✲ DAY 3 ✲ DAY 4 ✲ DAY 5...
Understanding and Respecting Our Differences
Recently, The PVLSE Magazine team sat down with its 2022 Summer Writing and Arts Competition – Arts...
to whom i consider lunar
So I wait as your crescent wanes and waxes. And you crack open eggshells and...
Liana
The following creative writing piece is a winner of the 2022 Summer Writing & Arts...
Sunset /Untitled / Shapes
✿❀✳❀✿ “Fancy an afterglow. Will you not?” Before nighttime, grasp for flickers of daylight with...
Reduplicatio
Scan the inky symbols on the page. Arrange them into sinuous streams of syntax. Process....
Destination
Join Chloe Ng, a rising senior in Shanghai High School International Division, as she guides...
A Journey into the Sonic Landscape of Electronic Music
Today, The PVLSE invites Jack Xu, pubescent turned electronic music whiz, to introduce his identity as an emerging, ardent artist and flash some of his bewitching, carefully crafted...
How Are You
✧ For one keeps asking, “How are you?” And you reply, “I am fine.” The...
Old Soul, Young Life
Seventeen-Year-Old Gen-Zer from the 90s – Catie Doran When I asked to interview junior Catie...
8 Days
“I cannot believe this is the eighth day of me being stuck here.” Matrix muttered...
windfallen
✿❀ ✦ ❀✿ the vintage breeze worships singing harmonies for the golden wind dreamers, out of touch...
The Intriguing Multiverse of Marvel’s What if
✶ (Minor spoilers ahead!) ✶ Marvel has become a rather popular and important name in the world...
A Letter to Mr. Tech
Dear Mr. Tech, Hi, how are you doing recently? The first, big thing that I...
A Toast
A gentle breeze was just enough to sweep away the remaining heat. The night was...
The New Toxic Trend: Cancel Culture
Alexi McCammond’s career as a journalist was on the rise. She worked for Axios as...
laundry / sunset
it is 6:07 pm when the three pairs of underwear lie strewn next to the...
Performer to Social Worker: Why it’s Never too Late
“So, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?” When I...
A Low Budget Guide: Part 2
Dear Diary, There’s a grassy knoll beside the road if you want to go for...
A sleepless city in hibernation
When the numbers start to spike, when the ambiance comes to a halt, when the...
1-Year of the PVLSE: What Editors Say
✶ Moments slip by into days, weeks, and then months. A year has passed, and...
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