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The Fluco Beat

The Student News Site of Fluvanna County High School

The Fluco Beat

Artwork courtesy of Zoie Deane '25. Inspired by a piano piece by Faith Marshman '25

She’s a Winner

Alexandra Murphy, Creative Writing Student March 14, 2025

She’s our winner She walks straight ahead Not looking where she’s going She’d rather be dead She’s walked so far to be our winner She’s broken all her legs Her stride is no...

Photo courtesy of Zoie Deane '25

The Spilled Dinner

Amelia Wilson, Journalist March 12, 2025

Half asleep like always, Fiona shuffled into the kitchen and skidded in a giant puddle of blood. Fiona grabbed the table to catch herself. The bright red blood soaked into her socks.  “Ewwww!”...

Artwork courtesy of Zoie Deane '25

Rewrite The Stars

Madison Cavanaugh, Creative Writing Student March 7, 2025

I didn’t ask to do this. I wasn’t planning on going to Earth on a special mission that might save my entire species. You know, no pressure. It’s not even like humans know we exist. Contrary to popular...

Photo by Ava Bass '28

A Mountain’s Peak

Conner Deery, Creative Writing Student February 28, 2025

A      Mountain’s peak             As if representing life Where it can be at its summit,                                                        soaring through...

Photo by Abby Shiflett '27

True Love

Conner Deery, Creative Writing Student February 20, 2025

True love, something that can be gentle, fun, and loving like the color of a baby blue sky without clouds True love, something that can go from gentle, fun, and loving to suddenly bland, like the color...

Photo by Nicanor Montiel De La Cruz '25

Blooming Pink

Eliana Portman, Assistant Editor February 14, 2025

When winter departs and Mother Nature arrives The color pink spreads throughout the world And flowers begin to blossom and thrive The animals play about in the sunlight Little children ride their bikes...

Photo by Brayden Bryant '25

It Was Green

Kaylee “Lief” Lines, Creative Writing Student February 7, 2025

It was green. It was their walks in the forest, It was their picnics in a field of grass, It was the stems of every color of flower they had given each other, It was what they had grown together: pears,...

As one example of the Graphics/Piano collaboration at FCHS in the fall of 2024, artwork created by Graphics student Sean Brown was used to inspire music written by Piano student Maya Hernandez.

Fine Arts Classes Take Inspiration to a New Level

Sean Brown and Maya Hernandez January 23, 2025

Last semester, Rosa Lee Fry's Graphics 1 & 2 students paired with Sara Harkrader's Piano classes to create art inspired by music and music inspired by art. One example is the artwork pictured here,...

Photo by Michaela Carter Payne '25.

The Silent Killer

Ethan Grizzle, Creative Writing Student December 9, 2024

I woke up, just like any day. I rolled over in bed, but something was wrong: My phone wasn’t under my pillow. I tore apart my bed, throwing everything on the floor. I heard something—Buzz! Buzz! I...

Image created by Fluco Journalism using Bing Image Creator.

What If I’d Told Someone?  

Lilly Gibson, Creative Writing Student November 13, 2024

Hi. I am Wilson Gentry and this is the story of  how I died.  One morning on July 28th,  1935,  I woke up, got dressed, and looked over at my partner.  Still asleep. “Amelia wake up!”  She...

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