Tomato
October 8, 2024
[Synapse Storytelling Contest second place winner for poetry.] Tomato /tə’mɔ:dö/ On Sundays like these, I’m paralyzed by curiosity playing psychic...
Death of an Author
October 8, 2024
[Storytelling contest second place winner for fiction.] Content warning: gore and self-harm I look towards the stage where a tall...
This Date in UCSF History: Latinos are Central to U.S. History
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[Originally published in Synapse on October 9, 2008.] Members of the UCSF community gathered in an auditorium last week, chowed...
Dear Chronic Pain
October 8, 2024
It’s been six months. Uncertain. Unknown. Unremitting concern. Sensitive nerves. Irritated nerves.
The Mad Yet Sensible Artist, an Inner Dialogue (or I suppose, a monologue)
October 1, 2024
[Second place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest for nonfiction.] Art always seems to portray madness so romantically. But the...
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