by Clarissa Keen | March 16, 2010
(No Ratings Yet)Artemis Bellezza è negli occhi del’osservatore. I dream in visions: The senses linger deep beneath the surface of the soul, through the calluses of my bones, through the crevasses in my heart, I resurface to the messes left from the morning’s hunt. I clean my arrows sharp. The glister of my bow in the viscous moonlight, like mercury pouring through my hand, beads in a pool around me. The [...](read more...)
by Gabe Stein | December 13, 2009
(+3)When Julian Glander (COM ‘12) submitted his short story The Woods, we were at first struck by its effective parody of talking animal stories. Then we were downright horrified by what happened to that simple little parody. By the end, we wanted to find the man who wrote it and congratulate him for taking [...](read more...)
by Gabe Stein | November 30, 2009 (No Ratings Yet)Film and TV major Haley Stoessl (COM 2011) submitted her science fiction short story Nun Sa Lam two weeks ago. The piece, which features an aging android protagonist, immediately caught our eye for its unique take on death, dementia, and the end of the world. Due to the Thanksgiving break, we only had the chance [...](read more...)
by Gabe Stein | November 15, 2009 (No Ratings Yet)Feeling that we didn’t have a good submission for this issue, we asked for creative submissions at the last minute — just a few days before release — and although a number of talented artists submitted, the poem DNA by Joseph Forbes (SMG ‘10) in particular caught our eye. His poem contains a mix [...](read more...)
by Gabe Stein | November 1, 2009 (No Ratings Yet)Adam Blomquist, CAS/COM ‘10, started writing fiction before his freshman year of college. A fan of horror literature and movies, he turned to writing darker stories. Since then, Adam’s work has been featured in numerous publications, including a short story in Shroud Magazine, which hits stores this month. You can learn more about Adam on [...](read more...)
by The Quad | October 6, 2009 (No Ratings Yet)Remaining true to her love of chemistry and her love of writing, contributor Clarissa Keen is a scientist by day and a poet by night. Keen cleverly mixes the two in her poem Radiation, which makes even the most scientific language pretty. Radiation The breath of the water creates atoms. Molecules in the darkness leave only the [...](read more...)
by The Quad | October 6, 2009 (No Ratings Yet)Neuroscience major, english minor, and contributor Andrea Abi-Karam’s original story, Natural Tendency, explores the darkest depths of a fractured mind. Reading it may just make you crazy yourself. Natural Tendency ‘Do you know where you are’ i am nowhere ‘Do you know who you are’ i am no one ‘Do you know why you are here’ i am nowhere where i cannot [...](read more...)
