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PROSE

  • Elegy for the Evergreen
    WILLOW DELP
    Evergreens watch throughout the bitterest winters: unchanging, unsympathetic. The weather strikes down its peers: thick snow weighs down their branches until they sink, limping underneath the pressure, and eventually succumbing to white blankets of frost. …Continue Reading Elegy for the Evergreen
  • Evergreen
    CAMILA MASSAKI GNOMES
    I wonder if you know the pain of wishing as I do, of longing for the absurd. And it is foolish to ask. Perhaps you understand longing in a way that I never could. Have I told you of the drive? …Continue Reading Evergreen
  • In This Litany, A Lost Lantern
    KAREN LEE
    This kind of day called for an intervention of sorts, or at the very least, a grand meeting at the town hall located in the heart of Lanternland, where all the lanterns would gather and take stock of the situation. …Continue Reading In This Litany, A Lost Lantern
  • Forever Green
    RIS PAULINO
    I scale the cracked shingles, the roof warm beneath my palms, / each grip a reminder that not all heights can be measured in feet. / The sun slips sideways, brushing against the window panes, / and I stand there, taller than the house that never grew with me. / I look off toward the sunset, / and see a treeline—…Continue Reading Forever Green
  • Stepping
    LILA SCHLISSEL
    And everybody’s showing a rib-cage to the / rib-watchers, head thrown back/throat exposed so we can see the / ridges do you see me we are asking / don’t you see us…Continue Reading Stepping
  • Words Unsaid
    EMILY WYKOFF
    You are full of empty promises / Lies hidden in kind equivocations / I’m tired of running in circles, chasing my tail / Trying to chase you …Continue Reading Words Unsaid

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

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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