By: K.E. Semmel Twenty years ago, during my aborted attempt to get an MFA in creative writing, I submitted a story for a workshop. It was about a middle-aged man who witnesses the neighbor’s teenage babysitter having sex with her boyfriend—an experience…
By: Aaron Moon Throughout the many years photography has evolved, with many new techniques and tools used to take photographs, photographers all share one goal. The use of photography is to record and keep track of whatever photo was taken….
By: Soo Yeon (Stephanie) Suh Social media, the forbidden fruit that corrupts people? Social media refers to an open online platform that shares personal thoughts, opinions, experiences, and information allowing people to create and build relationships with others. Social media…
By William T. Hathaway The waves of war are rising again around the fragile ship of our civilization, threatening to sink it to the depths of barbarism and radioactive megadeath. The principle to preventing this is stated in the constitution…
By: Ben Cribbin At first reading, T.S Eliot’s Choruses from ‘The Rock’ seem like something of a literary joke. Their form is odd: The Rock was a verse play written to raise money for new churches in London. Eliot supplied…
By: Heidi Wong It was summer last year when I noticed crocheted clothing was trendy among my generation. I was mesmerized by the sight of colorful, soft yarn and the way that it was meticulously stitched together to create a…
By: Christine Yi As someone from a multicultural background, it can be difficult to fully embrace and live in both cultures daily. I know I’m not alone in this struggle, as many people with multicultural backgrounds encounter similar challenges when…
By: Jodi Nathanson I have read and re-read The Great Gatsby so many times that I can recite its lyrical and descriptive passages from memory. My first encounter with this classic of the Jazz Age was in high school in…
By: James Aitchison One of literature’s great mysteries concerns Miss Havisham in Great Expectations. Did the real Miss Havisham live in Sydney, Australia? And if so, how the dickens did Charles Dickens hear about her? Well, the first myth we…
By Vanaja Malathy An AI-generated image of a woman with a Bindi on her forehead “There’s a mark on your face.” I was on my walk in a beautiful park in Denver, when a four-year-old little girl’s attention drew close…