[Storytelling contest second place winner for fiction.] Content warning: gore and self-harm I look towards the stage where a tall...

[First place winner in the Storytelling Contest poetry category.] the curve of the earth aligns to our body the heat...

[Originally published in Synapse on October 3, 1977.] For the past decade, vitamin C has been touted for the cure...

[First place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category.] The morning of October 17, the soft blue light of...

[Originally published in Synapse on September 22, 1988.] Our colleges and universities have come under highly critical consideration of late...

[ First place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest for Fiction.] It’s Christmastime, and over the hills, in the faraway...

[Originally published in Synapse on September 24, 1987.] On Sept. 12, the University of California Student Association voted overwhelmingly to...

The 2024 Synapse Storytelling Contest submissions surpassed all expectations — from gorgeous landscape photography to heartrending personal essays, from campy...

Okay, here I am. I’m at my desk. Just me and my trusty little laptop. Posture is good, lighting is...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 28, 1999.] Five months ago, the Alliance of Middle Eastern Scientists and Physicians was...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 23, 2013.] Student health insurance premiums will increase $565, or 20.4 percent, next year...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 15, 1986.] During the past few months, revelations of illegal or improper releases of...

What do you say to the fatherless ones on Fathers Day? Do you look them in their long-lost eyes and...

[Originally authored by Dr. Amy Levine — Director of UCSF’s Center for Gender Equity — and published in Synapse on...