October 2025

Issue 25

FICTION

I Believe

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

Reunion, Part 1

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

New York Morning

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

Free Land

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.

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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
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Writers:
          Maya Dang
          Lei Lani Daniel
          Annabelle Fretz
          Liam Knudsen
          Adrian Lei
          Max Mardesich
          Avi Neta
          Selah Park-Manoff
          Solana Schwarzinger-Reuter

Faculty Sponsor:
          ​Allyson Bogie