[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest poetry category.] You told me you wanted to kill yourself, to drown...

“Don’t walk on the grass. Only Fellows can walk on the grass,” Asif warns us, unserious.

[First published in synapse on October 22, 1989] Two Chinese dissident students, Hoy Yu Vi, 27, and Luo Jian Guang...

A riveting story told with humor and heart about the social behavior of Caenorhabditis elegans — affectionately known as worms...

[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category.] Dear Giardia, It has come to my attention that you...

Canada Water. To reconvene my soles with that which made me an author

Originally written on Oct. 4, 2001, by Suzanne Rafidi while a student in the School of Medicine. I am an...

[First place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest Fiction category.] I knew something was off when I woke up. I...

We’re not destined for defeat; thus is the song of our warriors! Proud in our minority skins, such is a...

The alarm rings: its 5am, and a new day begins But I’ve already been awake from the pain in my...

[ Originally published in Synapse on October 2, 1980.]

Once upon a time, in the bustling metropolis of Urbanville, there lived a remarkable young man named Mike.

Every so often, new scientific discoveries can challenge established principles and change the way we think about the world.

[Originally published in Synapse on Sept. 23, 1999.] “Disgusting, isn’t it?” said one of the directors of the national office...

First place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest for poetry.