March 2026
Issue 27
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FICTION
Annabelle Fretz
It all started, as it always does, with a problem. My aunt was having her wedding in exactly five days, and, of course, I was attending. It was a destination wedding... |
POETRY
Solana Schwarzinger-Reuter
In the morning As the city still slept While the birds sang sweetly I found her in their soft melodies Her essence floating in the breeze... |
FICTION
Max Mardesich
— phrases and idioms, insults and musings to speak like spitting. The house was dancing with all the hate I'd never had the exquisite privilege of tasting. |
FICTION
Rory Danielson
The knitting needle swoops gently through the golden loop of yarn, bowing to meet its caress. What were once clumsy movements, full of uncertainty... |
POETRY
Liam Knudsen
As I ride the train east A falcon swoops to kill a robin somewhere across the bay Fog, the color of breath, rolls in across the dunes The smell of seaweed and false cabinets... |
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FICTION
Selah Park-Manoff
“Are you sure I’m supposed to be doing this?” The look on Martin’s face was dubious and conflicted. Priceless. It was all Reid could do not to cackle at his own genius. |
FICTION
Adrian Lei
Vera looked at the bottom of the cup, swirling its contents, letting it shimmer in the lighting the bar set on against the smokey wooden tables. |
POETRY
Avi Neta
Another rain song Feel the rain; gray permeating, Out east, The rolling hilltops Are rife with greenest grasses Damp and rustling, rain... |
December 2025
Issue 26
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FICTION
Selah Park-Manoff
He would always remember the day he got the bear. A misty, foggy day, when the sun hid behind the blue-gray clouds and the wind whistled through the barren skeletons of trees. |
FICTION
Max Mardesich
—eyes, staring back at me. Irises shimmering like the rare stones I’d found in a stream at the ripe age of seven, stones that now sat in an alcove... |
POETRY
Solana Schwarzinger-Reuter
Nightshade The taste she left in my mouth was bitter A half rotten pomegranate seed Left out on a warm autumn day For the flies to eat while it rots |
FICTION
Lei Lani Daniel
“So you’ll be my new friend?” Daisy was confused by this question. It honestly couldn’t remember what a ‘friend’ was. It had been so long since... |
FICTION
Adrian Lei
To step upon the ship of sentimentals and desires, of which all were dressed for. It was a 1990’s ball on a cruise, people ate and drank... |
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FICTION
Annabelle Fretz
It first happened on a Friday night. I remember the fog rolling in over the tops of the trees, and a hissing through the slats in our house’s... |
POETRY
Avi Neta
The moon doesn’t care that the stars aren’t there. It’s smiling at me like a fish in the sea and laughing with glee behind leaves of a tree. |
FICTION
Liam Knudsen
My sister visited me late into my junior year of college. It was the first time I had seen her since I left. It was a surprise, a shock really. |
FICTION
Maya Dang
Without any previous warning from any weather monitoring station, orange flickers began to be seen a mile away from the small town of Lexington... |
October 2025
Issue 25
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FICTION
Adrian Lei
I believe that to have value, things must be temporary; to cherish something that's eternally fading is what makes having sentimentality towards it... |
FICTION
Max Mardesich
—eyes, her eyes. I could see myself in the mirrors of her irises, frightening, frightened. Transient. A moment, the lynchpin of a dream. |
POETRY
Solana Schwarzinger-Reuter
New York Morning Rain patters on the cement Seeping through the curved cracks and into the gutter While busy people above hustle through the crowds of umbrellas |
FICTION
Selah Park-Manoff
A legend, a myth, a mystery; that’s what the free land was. Everyone knew about the free land, yet no one dared to speculate about it. |
2025-26 Academic Year
Editor-in-Chief:
Max Mardesich
Copy Chief:
Maya Dang
Managing Editor:
Solana Schwarzinger-Reuter
Director, Emerging Writers Program:
Sophie Mirza
Publicity Coordinator:
Adrian Lei
Copy Editor:
Rory Danielson
Editors:
Maya Dang
Adrian Lei
Max Mardesich
Sophie Mirza
Solana Schwarzinger-Reuter
Writers:
Maya Dang
Lei Lani Daniel
Annabelle Fretz
Liam Knudsen
Flora Koven
Adrian Lei
Max Mardesich
Avi Neta
Selah Park-Manoff
Solana Schwarzinger-Reuter
Faculty Sponsor:
Allyson Bogie
Editor-in-Chief:
Max Mardesich
Copy Chief:
Maya Dang
Managing Editor:
Solana Schwarzinger-Reuter
Director, Emerging Writers Program:
Sophie Mirza
Publicity Coordinator:
Adrian Lei
Copy Editor:
Rory Danielson
Editors:
Maya Dang
Adrian Lei
Max Mardesich
Sophie Mirza
Solana Schwarzinger-Reuter
Writers:
Maya Dang
Lei Lani Daniel
Annabelle Fretz
Liam Knudsen
Flora Koven
Adrian Lei
Max Mardesich
Avi Neta
Selah Park-Manoff
Solana Schwarzinger-Reuter
Faculty Sponsor:
Allyson Bogie