Southern Voices Southern Voices is a magazine of creative works by students at the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science 1100 College Street, MUW-1627 Columbus, Mississippi 39701 Southern Voices is available to read on the Internet at www.themsms.org 2016 Southern Voices 2016 cover New-2.indd 1 5/2/16 9:31 AM Mary Lee (Starkville) would like to freeze time but still have Makayla Raby (Ecru) plans to get a doctorate in comparative the ability to do things. She plans to be a psychiatristTable and of literature.Contents She believes that anyone can write, but only some believes, “I can do everything through Christ who gives me will be great and that “All we have to decide is what to do with Southern Voices Staff Judges strength.” Sam Snell has influenced her through his work.Writingthe time that is given to us.”—J.R.R. Tolkien Kennedy Lewis (Greenwood) lists her favorite novel as Wrishija Roy (Columbus) says her most influential writer Things Fall Apart. She believesPoetry that all types of art and forms is Edna St. Vincent Millay. EssaysShe admires Shane Koyczan’s Volume XXVIII Editor Art Judge of writing are sources of relief that result in something beauti- perspective: “I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in ful.Allison Her mother Brown is her hero. theNathan art of opening Barlow up. I stand on mountain tops believing that Michelle Li Dr. Beverly A. Joyce is Professor and What Can I Get for You . 28 Chronic Town . 46 Makayla Raby Gallery Director in the Department avalanches will teach me to let go. I know nothing, but I am Spring 2016 Michelle Li (Starkville) says her defining quote comes from here to learn.” of Art and Design at Mississippi theJoy character Cariño she would like to meet: “Hold your head high Jenny Bobo Art Editor University for Women. and keepDaring those fists . down.”—Atticus. .Finch. Her . .hero. is Angie 5 Priya SaniparaLeto the Shire(Vicksburg) and Dennis believes the art Goat is a form . of. .self- . 16 Angie Harri Harri “becauseMy Roommate’s she gives Favorite me her fig Color bars.” . 19 expression: you create a world where you can be yourself. She plansJoy to Cari attendño medical school and specialize in oncology. Her Essay Judge Landry Filce The Piano Teacher with No Concept of Time . 39 Dr. Miki Pfeffer is author of Southern Summar McGee (Edwards) is influenced by writer Mildred favorite books are the Hunger Games series. Assistant Editors Extra Credit . 11 Ladies and Suffragists: Julia Ward Taylor. Summar echoes the admonition to “Do as much as Summar McGee you can as best as you can for as long as you can because you HadynMichelle Schroader Li (Ocean Springs) would like to have met Howe and Women’s Rights at the 1884 Reagan Poston neverZoe know Fowler who’s watching and when your life will take a Walt Disney.Tan Lines Her hero . .is . Leonardo . Da . .Vinci . because . he 34 New Orleans World Fair (University turn forPrima the better.” Ballerina She would . like. .to . have . .elemental . control, 22 combined science and art. Hadyn will combine her interests in Summar McGee Press of Mississippi, 2015). She is the and her favorite book is The Cay by Theodore Taylor. math, science, and creativity for a career in engineering. Photographer 2015 recipient of The Welty Prize, a Angie Harri Headin’ South . 10 West Givens collaborative award given annually by ConnorMr McNamee . Lark . (Florence). .says . he . wants. .to . .meet 12 Lauryn Elaine Smith (Meridian) says her favorite books are Connor McNamee Mississippi University for Women and Britney Spears and that his hero is himself. He quotes Kim her sister’s sketchbooks. She hopes to combine her skills in art Laurel Lancaster Momma’s Boy . 20 Staff Members the University Press of Mississippi. Kardashian: “I love when people underestimate me and then and science to become a scientific illustrator. Her mother is Allison Brown are pleasantlyApartment surprised.” 3C . 12 her hero for supporting her emotionally and mentally. Amazing Grace . 15 Sydney Melton Joy Cariño Photography Judge Learning to Adventure . 13 Madalyn Coln Sydney Melton (Meridian) wishes she could have been born Carly Sneed (Pontotoc) plans to major in Chinese and inter- Ms. Stacy Clark serves as editor of in Kennedythe 1960s. LewisShe counts MSMS art teacher Ms. Angie Jones national studies. She likes the words of Lil Wayne: “And I call Griffin Emerson Jason Necaise Catfish Alley, a quarterly magazine as her mostI Am influential . artist. 27 it like I see it, and my glasses on, but most of y’all don’t get Landry Filce published in Columbus, Mississippi, the picturePoetry less ofthe Reality flash is .on.” . She . says . .to .fake . being. creative44 Zoe Fowler JasonMichelle Necaise Li (Ridgeland) plans to study physics and become until you believe it, too. that is “a gathering place for the words Reagan Poston Haley Grant a researchDear or Sistercorporate . scientist. He. believes. human. creativ -19 and images that paint an authentic, Where the Heart Should Be . 29 Zoe Hu compelling portrait of life in today’s ity itselfTough is proof Love for the. chaos. theory.. He . .affirms . that “If it 41is Vasu Srevatsan (Hattiesburg) wishes she could have met Arielle Hudson South.” possible, then it happens.” Michael Jackson. She recalls her father’s admonition, “Don’t McKenzie Jones Summar McGee feel bad about your shoes when the person next to you has no Laurel Lancaster Greg ParkerThe Itis (Benndale) . will . be . .attending . .Ole . Miss. to study 18 feet.” Her hero is DrakeShort because heStories started from the bottom Bianca Martinez Poetry Judge EnglishPickin’ education Day and . creative. .writing. .If . he . could. have a 25 and now he’s here. superpower he would like to read minds. His most influential Sydney Melton Dr. T.R. Hummer, author of ten Joy Cariño artistGreg is LadyParker Gaga. Gianni Stennis (Columbus) plans to create in as many fields Greg Parker volumes of poetry, including Goodbye Marnie . 31 Skandalon (Louisiana State University Dressing Up . 36 and media of art as he can. The artist that influenced him the Jalen Perry Dipal Patel’s (Ocean Springs) future plans include a career most is Kanye Omari West. Gianni believes, “If nothing else, Press, 2014), is the recipient of a Griffin Emerson Wrishija Roy in Jalenmedicine. Perry She would like to have met Gandhi, and counts I’m glad I made some enemies. That means I finally stood for Haydn Schroader Guggenheim Fellowship and two her parentsBroken as her . heroes . .because . “they . managed . to come to 47 something,The thatJournalist’s something Tragedy being myself.” . 37 Pushcart Prizes. He is a native of Carly Sneed a country where they didn’t know the language and set up a Angie Harri Macon, Mississippi, and is the father of successfulMakayla business Raby empire through their hard work.” Ella Stone (Tupelo) plans to major in business. She believes Jasmine Topps The Other Side . 35 MSMS alumna Theo Hummer (Class Aide . 5 art is a language everyone speaks and that there is no limit to Cover Art: Maliah Wilkinson of 1995). Jalen PerryTrade (Ashland) . would. like . to . become. a. doctor. and 33 howLaurel many peopleLancaster it can touch. Her favorite novel is Jane Eyre. travel the world. Jalen believes that “Without creativity, there Summer Light Balancing Act . 42 Short Story Judge wouldWrishija be no Royprogress, and we would forever repeat the same Emily Waits (Columbus) plans to attend pharmacy Emily Waits patterns.”Mind He Adrift would like. .to .have . been. born . .in . the . 1980s. 28 schoolMichelle and wishes Li she could have met Audrey Hepburn. Faculty Ms. Lisa Howorth is author of the Her favorite quotation is “Though she be but little, she is Slimy Conscience . 3 novel Flying Shoes (Bloomsbury WillHaydn Pierce Schroader (Columbus) says his future plans include digital fierce.”—Shakespeare Publishing, 2015), her first work of design.Puppet If he had .a .superpower . .he . would . like. .to . .have the abil 18- Summar McGee Art Contest Faculty fiction. She is the co-founder and ity to time travel. He counts the Harry Potter series as his Maliah Wilkinson (Holly Springs) loves the novel The Meanus Myles . 40 Coordinator co-owner of Square Books in Oxford, favoriteCarly books. Sneed Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum. She plans to become a Angie Jones Mississippi. Dancing on the Factory Floor . 28 speechGreg pathologist Parker and believes with President Snow from The Reagan Poston (Mantee) would love to meet Jensen Ackles. Hunger Games that “Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. Flowers at the Service . 45 Ishmashell . 16 Her favorite book is My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult. A little hope is effective.” Faculty Advisor ReaganMaliah echoes Wilkinson Henry David Thoreau: “Not until we are lost Reagan Poston Emma Richardson do we beginThe Author to understand . .ourselves.” . 33 Rummy and Rum . 8 1 Southern Voices 2016 cover New-2.indd 2 Southern Voices 2016 inside.indd 1 5/2/165/2/16 9:31 9:24 AM AM Artwork Sculpture Slimy Conscience Rebecca Chen Michelle Li The Prisoner of Azkaban . 46 Drawing First Place—Short Story Competition Justin Calhoun Angie Harri The Chris Read Award for Fiction T . 11 The Enchanted Rose . 26 Mary Madeline LaMastus Penelope Carreon Einstein . 23 The sweltering afternoon sun beat down upon two backing away from the porch swing as if it had shocked Just a Quarter . 19 boys. It was the hottest day of the year, Murphy was him. Dipal Patel sure of it. He could hear his brain sizzling in his skull “What’s wrong?” Murphy grabbed at his friend’s Grant Henderson Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge Interpretation .