Children of the Lost Patriarchy
What do you say to the fatherless ones on Fathers Day? Do you look them in their long-lost eyes and congratulate them on finding their own compass
Divisible cities
[ Second place winner in the fiction category.] There is a city to the west built upon a peninsula of...
Encounterings
Lately — and maybe always — I am bewitched by translation and etymology. Both imperfect, curious, spiraling. In their mouths...
My First Patient
[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest poetry category.] You told me you wanted to kill yourself, to drown...
Don't Walk on the Grass
“Don’t walk on the grass. Only Fellows can walk on the grass,” Asif warns us, unserious.
Dear Giardia
[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category.] Dear Giardia, It has come to my attention that you...
Canada Water
Canada Water. To reconvene my soles with that which made me an author
Skincrawl Horror
[First place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest Fiction category.] I knew something was off when I woke up. I...
Unfairly Adjudicated: Onward We March
We’re not destined for defeat; thus is the song of our warriors! Proud in our minority skins, such is a...
Increasing Access Through Telehealth: A Call to Action
The alarm rings: its 5am, and a new day begins But I’ve already been awake from the pain in my...