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Don’t let the pretty flowers fool you!

*As if summoned by my glance, the doors began to slowly groan open, the glowing gap between them widening with every screech of the copper plates against the floorboards. A pause. The silence of the air grew into a bloated minute of suspense. The only noise to pierce the silence was the lullaby of a far-off bird, humming melodically like a sorrowed bow against a violin. The doors began to stutter forward once more, and for the first time, I saw the patent leather shoes of Mister Francis.*

Short Story: Three-Letter Words

After a bizarre police interrogation, a Thai immigrant studying in Dublin realizes that she is being followed by a man she has never seen. With an initially mundane phone call growing ever-stranger, all she can do now is keep walking—and never look back.

One Choice, One Life: A Book Review Of The Divergent Series

You can either be only smart or utterly brave or unconditionally kind or brutally honest or simply selfless or nothing. At the age of 16, you make a choice. Where do you belong? Do you belong in Dauntless, who home fearlessness, or Erudite, who admire brains, or Candor, who worship honesty, or Amity, who always…

Thailand Will Soon Face Snowfall, Says Rumours

False news headlines induced both excitement and turmoil between members of the Thai public — a historically debated topic has begun to respark.

The True Cost of Our Cheap Clothing: A Double-Edged Sword

This article explores and challenges the emerging trend of thrift shopping.

KIS Spotlight: Debate Club at EISMUN

In this series of KIS Spotlight, we look at extracurricular activities that takes place in KIS. This time we take a peek at the Debate Club, and the experiences that its members had at EISMUN XIV. EISMUN XIII was a valuable experience for the members of our Debate Club that attended the conference in October….

Period Power: a declaration for the menstruation movement

“Another great day of going to school!” you think to yourself, jumping out of bed excitedly. Then you realize…you can’t go. You have to sit at home, isolated, disgusted, and miss out on another day of school. Starving, you realize you’re out of clean water, clean sanitation and have to sit in one place until…

The True Cost of Our Cheap Clothing: Modern Slavery

This article touches on the institutionalized xenophobia against migrant workers through displaying Thailand’s attitudes towards Burmese workers within the textile industry.

KIS Spotlight: Operation Smile

In this series of KIS Spotlight, we look at extracurricular activities that takes place in KIS. To start things off, we begin with Operation Smile. Operation Smile is an international organization that provides surgeries and care for children with cleft palates and lips. These children have openings/splits in their upper lip, which can be caused…

The Story of a Beautifully Murderous Protagonist: A Book Review of ‘The Cruel Prince’

Another amazing book to review! If you are searching for something more fantastical in ever possible way, then check out my review on the first book of Folk of Air Trilogy! Death is a privilege. It might not seem like one, but knowing that one day we will leave everything, is our true drive to…