Category: General Content
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Echoes in the Halls: Testimonies from a Haunted Home
Written By: Iliana TangarovaGraphic By: Aruna Muthupillai Part 1: Whispers from the Past SPIRIT 1: I wasn’t always a whisper, you know,Once a breath and a heartbeat,Now I linger in sighs.This house, it kept my secrets,Each creaking floorboard a confidant.And when I fell—body cold, breath done—It held me tighter than anyone else ever had.Now I drift…
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A Story of Gods and Documents: Metamorphosis of Text
Written By: Alexander Green Graphic By: Ariadne Danae Chavez Salinas Chapter 1: Imperial Decree The Pale Moon above bears witness to the crimes of its mostdevoted follower, a God forced to punish man: A God, fallen from allgrace. Alone shuffles a hunched creature, shifting along the steps to agreat monument. Humans pass by him, quickly…
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How to Cure a Writing Block
by: Temi Idowu Graphics by: Temi Idowu Alas, the inevitable has come. It is time to write a creative, profound, and amazing piece that will be declared by many as “the next best thing since Shakespeare!” It’s your time to walk on that Nobel Prize stage and accept your reward for creating the most outstanding…
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The Spaces in Between
Written by Nidhi ChanchlaniGraphic by Maya Martinez Boxes. You can only check one. Check the box that ‘applies’ or check other. But people don’t know, they don’t slip between the spaces like I do. They don’t ever switch between or even ditch parts of themselves and they never, ever have to make the compromise of…
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Leyli Menal
Written by Maya ErtayGraphic by Mary Claire Jackson. What now? He comes in and their eyes meet Light streams, the beat, Both are silent but eager. The softness, the melody: Leyli Menal. So obvious yet hidden, All those novels of love forbidden. See them meeting, See them dancing. The ballroom of lonely souls Wandering around …
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Sappho
Written by Kayla Hays.Graphic by Quynhmai Tran. – Content Warning: This article features content that might be triggering to those with histories of domestic violence. Please read with caution. – Ever since I was small, all I have held were words. Words for my mother when she scolded me, still as gentle as ever,…
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Neverland, Never Leave
Written by Olivia Oswald. Graphic by Quynhmai Tran. – In a nursery lies a sleeping girl, Dreaming of bliss beyond the stars. Forever wishing for an adventure, Something she can hold close to her heart. She sleeps between the veil Of the unconscious and the aware, Soon she’ll feel his presence, Waking her up to hold his…
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A Price Tag, A Dying Flower, A Mannequin
Written by Kara Hildebrand. Graphic by Quynhmai Tran. — TW: allusions to sexual assault and body image insecurity — Multiplicity I am many things; none of them constant, none of them tangible enough for me to grasp: a price tag, a dying flower, a mannequin. I belong to the ads that redirect me to clothes that…
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Poems
Written by Eunsu Cho.Graphic by Quynhmai Tran. Broken feeling empty is when you don’t know whether to fill the cup back up again, or whether to break the cup so it can never be filled again Spring they call it beautiful renewing awakening blooming but I call it struggling growing hurting under blissful gazes of…
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My Life In Trees
Written by Eva Strelitz-Block.Graphic by Quynhmai Tran. Dendrochronology is a new word I’ve learned. It is the science of the transformation of trees. If you cut a tree down, the analysis of its rings provides insight into its seasonal experiences over time: its nutrient and climate highs and lows, its times of abundance and scarcity. It…
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