Winter 2023
Les Miserables
Duncan Mwangi We found out about Esse’s wedding on the day Emm, Wafula and I started a band. We immediately hopped on a call to speculate on why this masc bi girl from Kilifi—who could do this thing with her tongue and whom we’d all had as an ex at one point—had decided to leave… Read More Les Miserables
After Work Hours
Lila Shea The plate is broken. An ashen mosaic on the floor under his son who sobs reprised apologies. But the father sweeps the shards away alone without a word before returning to the kaleidoscope sink. The dishwasher is broken. The scent of daylily dish soap waltzing along pruned hands, water leaping to his faded… Read More After Work Hours
Stretch Yourself Thin
Anoushka Dasgupta Anoushka Dasgupta is a freshman majoring in Communications Studies. She loves art of all kinds, be it visual art, music, writing, acting—whatever makes us feel something.
Table of Contents
Stretch Yourself ThinAnoushka Dasgupta After Work HoursLila Shea Les MiserablesDuncan Mwangi AfternoonCollin Porter incantation / cosmologyRoy Zhu Your Time Is Done Now (A Self Love Overture)Audrey Clarendon DadiAsiyah Arastu cough syrup jello soul (with peaches)Ginny Lee Dearth VaderArav Mediratta Clytemnestra’s PietaChloe Chow Nightly RitualRyan Morton Next to Me (feat. RHOME)Moyana Olivia (feat. RHOME) DreamVaultsMary Caserio… Read More Table of Contents
Editor’s Note
At Helicon Literary and Arts Magazine, it is our mission to showcase and celebrate the artistic output of Northwestern’s creative community. For over forty years, we have done so, and in the pages of our Winter 2023 issue, we continue this legacy. Inside, you will find an array of beautiful, visceral, and evocative pieces that… Read More Editor’s Note
