[First place winner in the Storytelling Contest poetry category.]

[Originally published in Synapse on October 3, 1977.] For the past decade, vitamin C has been touted for the cure...

[First place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category.] The morning of October 17, the soft blue light of...

[Originally published in Synapse on September 22, 1988.] Our colleges and universities have come under highly critical consideration of late...

[ First place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest for Fiction.] It’s Christmastime, and over the hills, in the faraway...

At the age of thirteen, my genetic disorder caused my growth to accelerate, leading to an unusually tall stature. My...

[Originally published in Synapse on September 24, 1987.] On Sept. 12, the University of California Student Association voted overwhelmingly to...

The 2024 Synapse Storytelling Contest submissions surpassed all expectations — from gorgeous landscape photography to heartrending personal essays, from campy...

[Originally published in Synapse on Sept. 14, 1989.] Friday evening Sept. 8 was opening night at the San Francisco Opera...

WCNSF — Would you be able to guess what this medical acronym stands for? As healthcare profession trainees, weencounter hundreds...

Okay, here I am. I’m at my desk. Just me and my trusty little laptop. Posture is good, lighting is...

How does your brain interpret different sounds as distinct words, instead of a singular mess of phonetics? This was the...

After years of internal debate, I finally got my first tattoo. He’s a small lizard, with a topological map design...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 28, 1999.] Five months ago, the Alliance of Middle Eastern Scientists and Physicians was...

Even the most callous version of me is not entirely comfortable with using the word “hate” in a mundane setting...