[Originally published in Synapse on December 19, 2003.] Why is the greatest insult one can hurl at a boy is...

As I sit behind the wheel, knuckles pink and white, fingers clenched. I roll my windows down, the August night...

I got the call during anatomy lab, while holding your heart in my palms. Otosan has heart failure, said my...

[Originally authored by San Francisco orthopaedic surgeon Edward T. Kelley and published in Synapse on December 13, 1961.] Recent remarks...

Call me old-school, but I love going to the cinemas. From as young as I can remember, my mom would...

Not the darkness that stars bathe in Not the brain illness that requires saving

[Originally published on December 1, 1977.] There is a struggle for Black majority rule going on currently in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)...

[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...