Spring 2022
Mermaids
Sophia Bonfigli Sophia Bonfigli is a first year in Weinberg studying Biology. She loves art and doing creative side projects when she has free time (which is never).
No One Likes to Grieve
Gus Moody Mom died in a car accident on the way to pick me up from my last day of ninth grade. Or pick us up, really. I was with Tessa that day, my best friend since preschool. Mom was supposed to sign us out of school at noon so she could take us to… Read More No One Likes to Grieve
Jellyfish
Mary Caserio The otherworld has beings like this, these creatures of sunset and stardust. ++++++++ They dwell beneath a crystalline sky with+++++++++++++++++ no sun and no stars. On each exhale they+++++++++++++++++++++++++++ bloom with fluid rhythm, sinking slow, and+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ placid, and silent across infinity’s solemn gaze.+++++++++++++++++++++++ They drift through the ultramarine, trailing+++++++++++++++ ++++++tangling ribbons, sheets of… Read More Jellyfish
Sunday
Ashby Baker Service starts with Simon and Garfunkel’s “59th Street Bridge Song.” Up on tip-toes, a girl cocooned in blankets watches her mother, arms strong nose to the cookbook, as she kneads unsweet dough, nudging sticky flour into patties, humming to the radio. Floured-hands glow white, and the mother rechristens each countertop she touches, as… Read More Sunday
those which we could never own we wish to possess
Jonic Zhu Jonic Zhu is a graduating senior from Suzhou, China studying chemistry and philosophy. He shoots digital and Polaroid but not dark-room film since the last one involves too much chemistry.
Cold Snacks on a Freezing Cold Day in Brookfield, Illinois
Blake Croft November 11th, 2003 Mr. Marconen told me I should start journaling, that it might make me feel better, so here I am. I’ll introduce myself now, if that’s alright. If there’s anyone reading this. My name is Finn, I’m 15 years old, and I’m a hired hand at the Brookfield Zoo. More of… Read More Cold Snacks on a Freezing Cold Day in Brookfield, Illinois
Stilled Life
Katie Hwang Katie Hwang is a current senior in Weinberg, studying Creative Writing and Statistics. She is interested in visual art and fiction, and can only ever make work in the close third person. She hails from New York City.
horse
Marcelo Quesada colts a stampeding swarm of frothing horses clots of earth kicked up in an infinite series huffing beasts huffing muscled legs somewhere somewhere past the tension that rests on the skyline pulled taut like slack frothing up and lapping rocky beds we watch each others breaths coagulate, other times follow as it billows… Read More horse
Table of Contents
horseMarcelo Quesada Stilled LifeKatie Hwang Cold Snacks on a Freezing Cold Day in Brookfield, IllinoisBlake Croft those which we could never own we wish to possessJonic Zhu SundayAshby Baker JellyfishMary Caeserio No One Likes to GrieveGus Moody MermaidsSophie Bonfigli I scrub trashcans/my Father cleans the kill floorKatherine Hessler Mother / Tongue / Slanted / SongRoy… Read More Table of Contents
Editor’s Note
As my time as editor-in-chief comes to an end, I look back fondly at everything Helicon has done for me. I’ve been inspired at every step of the process, from reading the thrilling and original work of our contributors, to discussing the wide range of submissions with the brilliant members of our staff. The pieces… Read More Editor’s Note
