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PROSE

  • The Perfect Man
    MACKENZIE DUNSON
    A row of homes. Perfect homes, like they were pasted from the pages of a catalog. Sprawling white picket fences ran over the hills, connecting the houses in a puzzle, endlessly together…Continue Reading The Perfect Man
  • Island of Reverence 
    WILLOW DELP
    The dictionary is wrong. The dictionary is written by parents and upright magistrates and kings all ill-acquainted with true reverence, the reverence that makes you sob and beg and wail and grove…Continue Reading Island of Reverence 
  • Wonderful
    ANNIKA BAJAJ
    Swinging my legs in technicolor, fourth-grade, all-purpose classrooms with history on one side and “World Weather Map” on the other, I stared down the boy sitting across from me…Continue Reading Wonderful
  • Hymn
    ELEANOR WALSH
    And when I hear false my tongue twists G-o-d / But in street lights I see / The moons all around me / Foxes follow me home to you / I pull the Priestess / Your lips are red / The ring I lost months ago…Continue Reading Hymn
  • Orphic Overture LXXXI
    FAHIM ZAMAN
    I met him the night before / In that signature diner / Where all the cars go to die / Where green stars hide inside / With the man who wears the suit. // Who has milk and cookies, and waits till / The Beatles plays on the radio …Continue Reading Orphic Overture LXXXI
  • stuplimity
    GABBY AVENA
    the tree kneels / at the pond the tree / kneels to touch the / pond touch neither the / tree nor the pond / which the tree wants / touching your fingers / which cannot touch…Continue Reading stuplimity

POETRY

a digital art piece of a vogue cover with a laughing, bloody person in front

Featured Fiction

MACKENZIE DUNSON
I took a deep inhale, as my head tilted towards the sky, as I felt His hands on my shoulder and breath on my ear, perfect, He said, I know that you can make it perfect. He uttered my name. I shuddered, embodying the praise, receiving it in my mind, my soul.

His words pushed me towards the door.

The Perfect Man

Art Gallery

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a drawing of a person peeking out through a ripped hole
Art by Leoni Wright ’26
colored sketch of frog
Art by Caroline Wu ’26
sketch of a frog in the three stages of maturing
Art by Caroline Wu ’26
an edited photo of a man reaching out to a digitally corrupted image of a woman
Art by Caroline Wu ’26
a digital art piece made out of geometric shapes that create a girl staring out the expanse of planets and space
Art by Caroline Wu ’26
a screenshot of a code for a picture
Art by Caroline Wu ’26
a watercolor piece of a hand reaching outward framed against leaves
Art by Anna Hogarth ’23
a picture of cellular organisms with neon purple outlined circles
Art by Ana Varona Ortiz ’24
a drawing of a black girl on the background of small, skinny trees in front of her
Art by Tiia McKinney ’25
an artwork with a black-and-white nun against a blue surface with white beads trailing off her
Art by Sofia Yadigaroglu ’26
a drawing of a boy and a girl walking down a path with trees surrounding them
Art by Amy Zheng ’26
a collage of pieces within colored circles that radiate outwards
Art by Shayna Klainberg ’25
a painting of a girl surrounded by a colorful whirlwind of thoughts and pressures
Art by Samuel Nkengla ’26
a painting of the ocean framed against a brilliant sunset
Art by Rama Balagurunath ’26
a painting of an old chinese man with a bloody scar on the middle of his face
Art by Rachel Lin ’25
a painting of an opened eye with a half crescent in the middle, surrounded by lovely pinks, oranges, and yellows
Art by Neviah Waldron ’24
a painting of a forest displayed against a purple sky, with the moon centered in the middle
Art by Neviah Waldron ’24
a piece of artwork of a girl with patterned shapes around her
Art by Megan Huang ’25
a digital art piece of a giant statue half-submerged in water, surrounded by farmers
Art by Leoni Wright ’26
a digital art piece of a vogue cover with a laughing, bloody person in front
Art by Leoni Wright ’26
a digital art piece of a girl kneeling before someone
Art by Kyla Biscocho ’25
a photograph of a fox
Art by Jessica Kirby ’26
a painting of someone smiling with jewelry-encrusted teeth
Art by Jacinta Smith ’25
an origami piece of a green dragon from a low angle
Art by Fran Abdo ’24
an origami piece of a green dragon looking out of a window
Art by Fran Abdo ’24
an origami piece of a yellow phoenix in flight
Art by Fran Abdo ’24
a photograph of a sunrise against a beach
Art by Evelyn Chi ’25
brushstrokes of yellow, blue, white, and red
Art by Erxi Lu ’24

Featured Poem

AIDAN COOPER
all the times i let my teeth ferment in my spit without brushing before bed,
the bits scabbed over by fiber, in neat pairs…
separate under skin, i’ve never used a nutcracker,
i break my own jaw

Improv Tragedy and Laughs Afterthefact
a collage of pieces within colored circles that radiate outwards

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