The hammer (an epilogue to the impostor)
Third place winner in the Storytelling Contest fiction category. My breath was shaky. My hands were still trembling as my...
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This Date in UCSF History: We Need Affirmative Action
Originally published on November 13, 1997. Last week the United States Supreme Court ruled that it would not hear a...
This Date in UCSF History: Anti-abortionists Threaten Family Planning Funds
[Originally published on November 7, 1985.] Local family planning agencies and prochoice groups are concerned about a move by congressional...
gutenburg discontinuity
the sky smokes a cigarette, exhales an enormous ring into our museum.
This Date in UCSF History: Don’t Forget to Vote
[Originally published in Synapse on Oct. 30, 1986.] It may not be a presidential election year, but next Tuesday’s midterm...
A Balikbayan Box for My Ballers
[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category.] In the summer of 2020, I participated in Celestial Journeys...
This Date in UCSF History: Mystery Surrounds Radiation Exposure Readings
[Originally published on October 15, 1987.] Synapse has learned that sometime last July three UCSF radioactive waste disposal workers’ radiation...
Speaking in Tongues
The first word I ever spoke was Farsi: Baba, which means father. It makes for an interesting conversation starter; I...
The Ultimate Experiment
[Editor's note: This submission won second place in the Synapse storytelling contest fiction category.] Three brothers had been killed that...
The Third Wheel
Grey skies, grey bay - it’s a new day It’s sirene: the wind has not been keen
This Date in UCSF History: Birth Control Aborted in United States
[ Originally published in Synapse on October 4, 1990.] Americans have fewer choices in practicing birth control than people in...
Once I Climbed a Hill
Once I climbed a hill And looked down with triumph at what I had done. I saw sands stretched long...
This Date In UCSF History: Necessary Dialogue
[ Originally published in Synapse on September 29, 1993.] A campus forum on “Interracial Racism,” held Sept. 21 in Toland...
Inside Voice
[Camille Moore’s story earned first prize winner in the storytelling contest fiction category.] It was all mixed up inside of...
This Date in UCSF History: Professors Stir Drug Debate
[Originally published in Synapse on September 20, 1990.] A high-level state advisory panel, including four UCSF faculty members, ignited the...