Category Archives: Lyco Issue Fall 2025

Dear readers, It is my absolute pleasure to present the Fall 2025 edition of The Tributary literary journal! As per tradition, our Fall edition consists of work submitted from only Lycoming College students and edited by Lycoming College students. Check out the list of contributions here. The accepted pieces for this edition ranges in topic,Continue reading “Letter from the Managing Editor – Fall 2025”

Poetry Denia Gooden – Broken Glass, From Me to Him, The Woman Denia Gooden is a 21-year-old Senior attending Lycoming College. She is originally from Memphis Tennessee and plans to return home to become a middle school teacher after she graduates. Denia started writing poetry during her freshmen year of college originally to cope withContinue reading “Contributors – Fall 2025”

I found myself in people and the girls I claimed to love. I threw my fits and skipped my class and I almost gave it up. I gave you all I had. I tried to take it back, at times, and I wouldn’t now if I had the choice. And I walked in an angelContinue reading “End Song – Julia Martin”

I saw her She sat there with a comforting smile With me in her arms as I cried I wailed as I told her how long I’ve been stuck After all I tried She wiped my tears Caressed my forehead And told me things that I’ve already heard But I cried again This time itContinue reading “The Woman – Denia Gooden”

He asked me what is love. I told him to imagine that he was stranded in a desert and just as he was about to take his last breath, He hears water splashing nearby I told him to lie on his back straighten his spine and watch the tension leave his bones while basking inContinue reading “From Me to Him – Denia Gooden”

In this mirror I reflect a girl that isn’t me On the outside I recognize her skin and features But her mental is limited Unlike the woman I claim to be She is so beautiful With curves from her lips down to her thighs But her soul screams her truth That behind those eyes AreContinue reading “Broken Glass – Denia Gooden”

I know I’m right. “That’ll be 200 dollars a day for a drug addiction.” said the prophet cashier. I take the altar’s wine, even though I’m sober. Sleep’s darkness was too much until he woke Me up in the dark. “Now I am the light of the world and there will be no need forContinue reading “Very High God – Julia Martin”

This all started when I claimed to my friends that I could read all of One Piece in twenty-four hours.   For some context on this self-imposed challenge, One Piece is a popular Japanese manga that started in 1997 and has since been publishing at a consistent rate into the present. Over the nearly three decades of the manga’s existence, it has accumulated over 1,100 chapters featuring over a hundred characters and thirty-three story arcs. I hopeContinue reading “A Review of “One Piece” in One Day – Alex Setliff”

Alexis (Lexi) Rockwell is a contributing art editor for the Tributary. Lexi is an Art History and Studio Art dual major and plays an active role in the arts at Lycoming College. Her interest and dedication to art and representation is what drove her interest in working alongside the editors at the Tributary. She intendsContinue reading “Editor Contribution – Alexis Rockwell”

Charlie Bach (he/she) is a sophomore at Lycoming college who studies English Literature and French. She’s the assistant managing editor of The Tributary, and she enjoys writing poetry and literary fiction (while drawing cartoons on the side). Martyrs “If the mountains of Lebanon could tell us their story, we should see them dyed in theContinue reading “Editor Contribution – Charlie Bach”

The light of a thousand suns flashed in the back of his eyes. Photon beam, 70 billion eV strong shot through his head. Do you think the Radium Girls would have visited him? Showed him their rotting jaws as his brain swelled and his face went numb? Would they have stood by him and nodded?Continue reading “Anatoli Bugorski – Sarah Bach”