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Woman breathing in sunlight.
Best of the Storytelling Contest

Words in the Wind

soft summer air skies tinted pastel orange the breeze tickles my face
May 9, 2023
Olasina Awe
School of Medicine
Arts & Culture
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Sunset over field

Heavens on Sunday March

April 4, 2023
Camille Moore
White concrete poured poorly, The edges pink and undercooked.
Arts & Culture
Heart breaking illustration.

Summer & Winter

April 4, 2023
Olasina Awe
She was right. I don’t know what love is I’ve seen it, and received it, but never given it Or...
Arts & Culture
Woman floating in ocean.

Meander

January 23, 2023
Nina Escueta
Been drifting along A sea of green. Been free to be, to breathe, to dream
Arts & Culture
Hands slicing apricots.

apricots & shallots

December 3, 2022
Nina Djukic
I think often of the apricots & shallots that I diced in your kitchen last year with a knife you...
Arts & Culture
Cake

Hannah the Ghost

November 29, 2022
Camille Moore
The buttercream needed something. Raspberries? George stirred a spoonful of jam into the bowl and re-tasted. Much better, he thought...
Arts & Culture
Milk pouring in cup of coffee.

as we made to leave the bagelry

November 14, 2022
Nina Djukic
Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest poetry category. we moved through the sentence of the crowd, its fork-plate...
Arts & Culture
Cartoon of hammer descending on a person.

The hammer (an epilogue to the impostor)

November 8, 2022
Janice Goh
Third place winner in the Storytelling Contest fiction category. My breath was shaky. My hands were still trembling as my...
Arts & Culture
Red skyline

gutenburg discontinuity

October 24, 2022
Coryna Ogunseitan
the sky smokes a cigarette, exhales an enormous ring into our museum.
Arts & Culture
Family portrait

Speaking in Tongues

October 5, 2022
Eva Faizi
The first word I ever spoke was Farsi: Baba, which means father. It makes for an interesting conversation starter; I...
Arts & Culture
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