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...

[Originally written by medical student Amy Ewing and published in Synapse on Nov. 6, 1997.] Last year I arranged to...

[Originally authored by pharmacy student Oliver Übeda and published in Synapse on November 1, 2012.] The ritual of Día de...

[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...