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The Tractor
The boy smiles upwards at his father, cherub cheeks and a childish grin. The man lifts the child onto his shoulders and mounts the tractor.
SF Beach
[Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest Photography category.] In this captured moment, behold a miniature range of sand...
How Are You?
A question meant only as a greeting. A chance at connection diminished to a mere formality. In what public health...
salt
momma made the best baked fish in the world. dad fed us stories.
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