The Infinitely Big in the Infinitely Small
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[Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category.] The typical existential thoughts of a graduate student drifted through...
apricots & shallots
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I think often of the apricots & shallots that I diced in your kitchen last year with a knife you...
This Date in UCSF History: UCSF Observes World AIDS Day
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[Originally published on December 1, 1988.] “Sometimes people just want to talk and it’s our policy never to hang up,”...
Hannah the Ghost
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The buttercream needed something. Raspberries? George stirred a spoonful of jam into the bowl and re-tasted. Much better, he thought...
This Date in UCSF History: A Tribute to Harvey Milk
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Originally published in Synapse on November 30, 1978. Written by Andrew Zysman. Supervisor Harvey Milk was shot to death on...
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