[Originally authored by medical student Eric Chow and published in Synapse on November 20, 1998.] After a five-minute walk, I...

The boy smiles upwards at his father, cherub cheeks and a childish grin. The man lifts the child onto his...

[Originally authored by medical student Ashkay Govinder and published on Nov. 15, 2012.] I love cooking a traditional Thanksgiving meal...

[Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest Photography category.] In this captured moment, behold a miniature range of sand...

A question meant only as a greeting. A chance at connection diminished to a mere formality. In what public health...

momma made the best baked fish in the world. dad fed us stories.

[ Second place winner in the fiction category.] There is a city to the west built upon a peninsula of...

Lately — and maybe always — I am bewitched by translation and etymology. Both imperfect, curious, spiraling. In their mouths...

[Originally written by medical student Amy Ewing and published in Synapse on Nov. 6, 1997.] Last year I arranged to...

[Originally authored by pharmacy student Oliver Übeda and published in Synapse on November 1, 2012.] The ritual of Día de...

[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. Only Fellows can walk on the grass,” Asif warns us, unserious.

[First published in synapse on October 22, 1989] Two Chinese dissident students, Hoy Yu Vi, 27, and Luo Jian Guang...

A riveting story told with humor and heart about the social behavior of Caenorhabditis elegans — affectionately known as worms...

[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category.] Dear Giardia, It has come to my attention that you...