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
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
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...