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Candle in heartshaped holder.

Photo by Cathal Mac an Bheatha on StockSnap.

Best of the Storytelling Contest

Candlemaker

First place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest for poetry.
September 19, 2023
Sohini Halder
School of Medicine
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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
Cake

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
View from a back seat.

Behind Their Wheels

November 14, 2022
Michelle Bui
Fall 2021 “How do you know that a man loves you?” *** Emmanuel had a firm build and rigid posture...
Student Life
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
The Philippines' bronze medal winning team at the 1954 World Championships.

A Balikbayan Box for My Ballers

October 16, 2022
Gabby Rabadam
[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category.] In the summer of 2020, I participated in Celestial Journeys...
Student Life
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
Cartoon mouse in lab

The Ultimate Experiment

October 5, 2022
Deepa Rajan
[Editor's note: This submission won second place in the Synapse storytelling contest fiction category.] Three brothers had been killed that...
Humor
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