[First place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest Fiction category.] The experience of dying can vary greatly. Some see a...

[Originally published on September 21, 1995.] Among the books that have influenced my thinking are A Handmaid’s Tale and 1984...

[First place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest Non Fiction category.] America: a country that brags about its technology and...

You thought you’d never survive this. But, darling, a radiant sun awaits to see you rise. You felt as though...

[ Originally published in Synapse on September 19, 1985.] In the next few days, Gov. George Deukmejian will decide the...

[Originally published on September 5, 2002.] Welcome First Year (insert school here) Students! In the next week to months you...

From magical realism to urgent calls for justice, from fog-draped skylines to lyrical meditations on the self — this year’s...

Consider aging as three overlapping progressions: the accumulation of risk, aging as deterioration, and aging as renewal. Aging disrupts life/non-life...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 26, 1988.] Case: A 29 year-old Salvadoran woman, mother of three, is unable to...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 21, 1998.] Waking up to the annoying alarm I've used for the last four...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 7, 1981.] In calling for a national day of protest against the arms race...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 1, 1976.] This coming week is the celebration of Cinco de Mayo and La...

[Originally published in Synapse on April 29, 1997.] There is nothing like springtime and nowhere like San Francisco to experience...

Have you ever felt your heart beat align with the kick? Or the hits make your eardrums tickle, the special...

[Originally published in Synapse on April 16, 1981.] Last Saturday, International Committee Against Racism (InCAR) and Progressive Labor Party took...