[Originally published on December 1, 1988.] “Sometimes people just want to talk and it’s our policy never to hang up,”...

The buttercream needed something. Raspberries? George stirred a spoonful of jam into the bowl and re-tasted. Much better, he thought...

Originally published in Synapse on November 30, 1978. Written by Andrew Zysman. Supervisor Harvey Milk was shot to death on...

Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest poetry category. we moved through the sentence of the crowd, its fork-plate...

Fall 2021 “How do you know that a man loves you?” *** Emmanuel had a firm build and rigid posture...

Originally published in Synapse on November 18, 1976. The employees of the University of California are receiving two paid holidays...

Third place winner in the Storytelling Contest fiction category. My breath was shaky. My hands were still trembling as my...

Originally published on November 13, 1997. Last week the United States Supreme Court ruled that it would not hear a...

[Originally published on November 7, 1985.] Local family planning agencies and prochoice groups are concerned about a move by congressional...

the sky smokes a cigarette, exhales an enormous ring into our museum.

[Originally published in Synapse on Oct. 30, 1986.] It may not be a presidential election year, but next Tuesday’s midterm...

[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category.] In the summer of 2020, I participated in Celestial Journeys...

[Originally published on October 15, 1987.] Synapse has learned that sometime last July three UCSF radioactive waste disposal workers’ radiation...

The first word I ever spoke was Farsi: Baba , which means father. It makes for an interesting conversation starter...

[Editor's note: This submission won second place in the Synapse storytelling contest fiction category.] Three brothers had been killed that...