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Woman floating in ocean.
Best of the Storytelling Contest

Meander

Been drifting along A sea of green. Been free to be, to breathe, to dream
January 23, 2023
Nina Escueta
School of Medicine
Arts & Culture
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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
A ghostly figure behind a sheet.

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
Foggy bay sailboats

The Third Wheel

October 3, 2022
Daniel Oliveira
Grey skies, grey bay - it’s a new day It’s sirene: the wind has not been keen
Arts & Culture
Top of a hill

Once I Climbed a Hill

September 26, 2022
Nina Escueta
Once I climbed a hill And looked down with triumph at what I had done. I saw sands stretched long...
Arts & Culture
Dragon flying into sunset

Terrible Things

September 17, 2022
Hannah Sans

I never knew you before the coma, Before bacteria seeded your brain.

Arts & Culture
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