Spring 2021
House
Evan Neiden somewhere there is a house, and it is filled with laughing. the small things that make a history make the fireplace glow brighter, … Read More House
Once Removed
Elizabeth Vogt That morning, I could smell my mother before I could see her. I would have recognized her perfume anywhere, the heady scent of jasmine and coriander. She hadn’t been a particularly polished woman, but she’d never gone anywhere, not even the gas station, without several spritzes of the stuff. The little black bottle… Read More Once Removed
Supermarkets
April Li Sometimes I am convinced that my mother hates me. Like now, standing on the sidewalk, tension collecting in the space between us like the Beijing heat, muggy and oppressive. She stares forward, glass dish of congee clutched in her hands. It was hot when she pulled it out of the pressure cooker earlier,… Read More Supermarkets
year of the ox
April Li oxen are the hard workers in the background, intelligent and reliable, but never demanding praise. this is how the traditions go: make zào táng for the kitchen god ahead of time brew the malt candy on the stove cook the mixture so it’s sticky so it sweetens the words, so it seals the… Read More year of the ox
03.30.2021 (When Amelia Was In The Hospital, She Hit Her Head)
H.S. Deng H.S. Deng is a sophomore in the School of Comm; she says hi from the sunroom where she sleeps and makes things.
A Mammoth Lullaby
Devony Hof I watch human hands unearth my bone, Then my tusks, delicate, side by side As they once painted us, marked and dried Running, running, running into stone. Once moving us by the sun’s bright breath Tugged by their hands from very old earth. A frightening, strangely bloodless birth I think I remember a… Read More A Mammoth Lullaby
Submerged
Erin Park Erin Park is a first-year student studying some kind of engineering. She is currently very into pixel art despite spending most of her time previously on realism.
The Things We Leave Behind
Cindy Chen Chinese New Year is a novelty at first: when you’re a kid, and you see the lion dancing and hear the drum beats, you feel a sense of wonder for your culture in ways that hadn’t been prominent before living in America—not even living in a city that is primarily Asian. There is… Read More The Things We Leave Behind
Reel Bad
Christopher Lee Christopher Lee is a freshman studying mechanical engineering. He says hi to Erin Park.
Daphne
Zoë Huettl He can’t be gaining on me, I was all-state last year— My hair sweat-slicked, A salt ring along the underside of my sports bra. Barefoot, I barely feel the sidewalk’s sting. My hand clutching My stilettos By their straps. I’m out of time. Solid wall of man, a few streetlights Behind. I’m not… Read More Daphne
