about us
Our Mission Statement
It is for the literary magazine to present the thoughts and feelings of the student body of BRHS-to present a subjective record of the year. The magazine is named Unbound for a number of reasons. First and foremost, it describes the aura that surrounds the students; we are unfettered by the traditions of the other people who might have gone to school here before. We set the traditions. The second reason for naming the magazine is a literary one. In Greek Mythology, Prometheus was the knowledge-giver, the one who was responsible for bringing man up and out of his primal savagery. The gods where so angry at this that they shackled Prometheus and subjected him to awful tortures. The great English poet Percy Bysshe Shelly uses this myth as the basis for his work Prometheus Unbound, in which the Knowledge-Giver is symbolically free.
And finally, this magazine is the embodiment of hope. Let us never be bound by the harsh chains of ignorance, intolerance, bigotry, or conformity for conformity's sake. It is the embodiment of hope that the students of BRHS shall forever be Unbound.
- Staff of 1969-1970
It is for the literary magazine to present the thoughts and feelings of the student body of BRHS-to present a subjective record of the year. The magazine is named Unbound for a number of reasons. First and foremost, it describes the aura that surrounds the students; we are unfettered by the traditions of the other people who might have gone to school here before. We set the traditions. The second reason for naming the magazine is a literary one. In Greek Mythology, Prometheus was the knowledge-giver, the one who was responsible for bringing man up and out of his primal savagery. The gods where so angry at this that they shackled Prometheus and subjected him to awful tortures. The great English poet Percy Bysshe Shelly uses this myth as the basis for his work Prometheus Unbound, in which the Knowledge-Giver is symbolically free.
And finally, this magazine is the embodiment of hope. Let us never be bound by the harsh chains of ignorance, intolerance, bigotry, or conformity for conformity's sake. It is the embodiment of hope that the students of BRHS shall forever be Unbound.
- Staff of 1969-1970
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Sally Toner is a High School English teacher who has lived in the Washington, D.C. area for over 25 years. She has taught English at Broad Run HS for 21 of those. Her own poetry, fiction, and non-fiction have appeared in Northern Virginia Magazine, Gargoyle Magazine, District Lit, Watershed Review, and other publications. She lives in Reston, Virginia with her husband and two daughters. Her first chapbook, Anansi and Friends, from Finishing Line Press, is a mixed genre work focusing on diagnosis, treatment, and recovery from breast cancer.