Margo Lusinchi, Guest Writer
June 1, 2016
full lips waiting
she doesn’t knock
bare feet over
slick marble
fabric swishing across waxy legs
the scarlet catches
a glass slipping off the
edge of a low table
scattered shards
but no blood is drawn
...
Sonnet Phelps, Guest Writer
May 18, 2016
the joke reddens our faces
and we clutch, shaking,
at our bellies, lips stretched
tight across teeth
as our heads swing
lightheadedly skyward
and our eyes, bouncing,
roll gleefully back in
maniacal convulsion
as does the bloo...
Jim Hollingworth, Alice Dai, Eli Colbert, Claire Bai, Miranda Li, Tino Tugwete, Emily Terada, Kevin Yen, Chris Dadok, Alexis Malgesini, and Cole Hanson
May 2, 2016
Teaching young people about drugs is not precise: however individualized the curriculum, it will never be enough to account for the diversity of young people. A high school student who is intent on using drugs will not likely...
Douglas Curtis, Guest Columnist
March 9, 2016
During the summers, I intern in a necropsy lab performing autopsies. Death is so often viewed with intense sadness and pessimism, however, dealing with death on a daily basis has taught me to do the opposite. Each day I face a...
Julia Santos, Staff Writer
March 9, 2016
My aunt was shot by her husband when I was 9 years old. He shot her twice, once in the chest and once in the head, and then once in his own hand; he told the police he was shielding himself and my aunt from the intruders when...
Eli Colbert, Staff Writer
March 9, 2016
I remember learning about it when I was a kid. I remember when the existence of death was bad news. I think it was in Sunday School that I was told Moses had bitten the fertile dust of the Promised Land, all those nutrients from...
Claire Bai, Emily Terada, Kevin Yen, Eli Colbert, Savita Govind, Miranda Li, and Michael Sieffert
March 9, 2016
The binary quality of death, like the binary quality of a light switch, isn’t too difficult to understand. The implication of the dark, though, is more layered, as is the absence of the only-recently-alive. Attitudes toward...
Paola Campos, Staff Writer
March 9, 2016
Teenagers don’t usually spend very much time contemplating death. We are dealing with the trials and stresses of growing up and becoming adults, so much so that our own mortalities are too far off in the distance for us to be...
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