A question meant only as a greeting. A chance at connection diminished to a mere formality. In what public health...

momma made the best baked fish in the world. dad fed us stories.

[ Second place winner in the fiction category.] There is a city to the west built upon a peninsula of...

Lately — and maybe always — I am bewitched by translation and etymology. Both imperfect, curious, spiraling. In their mouths...

[Originally written by medical student Amy Ewing and published in Synapse on Nov. 6, 1997.] Last year I arranged to...

[Originally authored by pharmacy student Oliver Übeda and published in Synapse on November 1, 2012.] The ritual of Día de...

[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest poetry category.] You told me you wanted to kill yourself, to drown...

[First published in synapse on October 22, 1989] Two Chinese dissident students, Hoy Yu Vi, 27, and Luo Jian Guang...

If you’re one of those people who walks into an independent bookstore and goes straight to the “Zine” section, you...

A riveting story told with humor and heart about the social behavior of Caenorhabditis elegans — affectionately known as worms...

[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category.] Dear Giardia, It has come to my attention that you...

We’re not destined for defeat; thus is the song of our warriors! Proud in our minority skins, such is a...

The alarm rings: its 5am, and a new day begins But I’ve already been awake from the pain in my...

[ Originally published in Synapse on October 2, 1980.]

Once upon a time, in the bustling metropolis of Urbanville, there lived a remarkable young man named Mike.