Not a day goes without me wondering about how messy an affair it is to be human. The emotional turmoil...

[Originally published in Synapse on Nov. 13, 2008.] Few things could be more important for America than President Obama’s appointment...

[Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling fiction category.] The auditorium was completely full. The breath of thousands rose and...

[Originally published in Synapse on October 25, 2001.] Once again, the year approaches the end of October, which along with...

[Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest poetry category.] They walked long and sinuous paths Alone on the roads...

[Originally published in Synapse on November 3, 2011.] Two months ago, demonstrators began showing up at Wall Street to protest...

[Originally published in Synapse on October 14, 1993.] Greg Hayner, PharmD (UCSF class of ‘77), has been working at the...

[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...