The boy smiles upwards at his father, cherub cheeks and a childish grin.
The man lifts the child onto...

[Originally authored by medical student Ashkay Govinder and published on Nov. 15, 2012.] I love...

[Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest Photography category.]

In this captured...

A question meant only as a greeting. A chance at connection diminished to a mere formality. In what...

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...

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

[Originally authored by pharmacy student Oliver Übeda and published in Synapse on November 1, 2012.]...

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

You told me you wanted...