Entries to the fourth annual Synapse Storytelling Contest offered an astonishing array of imaginative and captivating scenes that challenged judges...

The sun was at its highest point in the sky. At the same time, I was at my lowest point...

As we end the 66th year of Synapse’s publication, I encourage you to stop whatever you are doing and just...

Originally published on May 31, 1990. A small woman wearing blue jeans and tennis shoes stood nervously before a crowd...

“We took out a mass from your colon. We think it’s cancer. The good news is we think we got...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 24, 1981.] Abortion is under attack, again, in what may prove to be the...

rounds of hate in scores fired enter my body as i watch eight fall, six of them who look like...

She went to the doctor today And we told her she was sick She didn’t need a visit to know...

When I came across this coffee cup balanced perfectly and precariously on a hallway railing in Zuckerberg San Francisco General...

Two distant planets A chimney of cozy air An open coin purse Oxen at the yoke A perch for cuddly...

Scientific research can feel like a lonely voyage into the clouds, until even the clouds peel away and there is...

This crosswalk to the clouds really sums up how I picture it every time I face things in the future...

Laughter bouncing off living room walls, Faces enter then exit stage left and right, Students rushing from one scene to...

[Originally published in Synapse - The UCSF student newspaper May 5, 1976.] Women representing women’s clinics and health organizations throughout...

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” -Aristotle