Forty-three days. The longest government shutdown in United States history. From Oct. 1 through Nov...

[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest Fiction category.]

It’s been seven something...

[Originally published in Synapse on Dec. 12, 1993.]

To decorate a Christmas tree 

Is very hard, you...

The immune system faces a paradox: it must recognize dangerous invaders while carefully sparing the...

Yes you!

Right on your face

I say it aloud

I am not ashamed

[Originally published in Synapse on December 2001.]

It’s been one of those days. You lock yourself...

[Third place winner in the Storytelling Contest non fiction category.]

Have you ever seen fireworks...

On a foggy Friday morning, a cluster of UCSF students in scrubs and backpacks huddle over poster...

[Originally published in Synapse on December 4, 1996.]

I remember the morning after Proposition 187...