Necessary Demographic
I’ve recently realized, and it’s kind of scary but I am a demographic that is necessary I am from a class that’s often just a face in the crowd But my presence means something and I’m shouting it out loud
Big Surprise
It was sunrise Nail clipping of a moon, an incisor tooth Peeking and covered again, the colors of the sky...
Introspection
Often, I used to drop by to ask a patient of mine about his mood, and one day he just...
The Infinitely Big in the Infinitely Small
[Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category.] The typical existential thoughts of a graduate student drifted through...
apricots & shallots
I think often of the apricots & shallots that I diced in your kitchen last year with a knife you...
Hannah the Ghost
The buttercream needed something. Raspberries? George stirred a spoonful of jam into the bowl and re-tasted. Much better, he thought...
as we made to leave the bagelry
Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest poetry category. we moved through the sentence of the crowd, its fork-plate...
Behind Their Wheels
Fall 2021 “How do you know that a man loves you?” *** Emmanuel had a firm build and rigid posture...
The hammer (an epilogue to the impostor)
Third place winner in the Storytelling Contest fiction category. My breath was shaky. My hands were still trembling as my...
gutenburg discontinuity
the sky smokes a cigarette, exhales an enormous ring into our museum.