Julian Raymond
Staff Reporter
Author Archive
To the Girl on the Seventh Floor

It’s my fault we haven’t spoken like we used to. I still remember those early days, where we’d wake up two hours before our first […]

Jessai Flores
Taffeta

  Walking past the Westchester Elks Lodge, I caught the scent of my elementary school crush. It smelled like sugar and glitter and what the […]

Julian Raymond
Comic book fan’s paradise returns to New Haven

Connecticut superhero fans and comic collectors flocked to an East Shore bingo hall for a Sunday afternoon of vintage comics and rare collectibles.

PROFILE: Samantha Torres

Samantha Torres ’28 has a way of preserving beautiful things. Ticket stubs and photobooth strips paper the walls of her dorm room, carefully curated and […]

Almost home

It was the first time I’d seen my friends since August. I had been the first to move away for college, fracturing the transitory summer […]

Mini Love Stories

The first time I stayed at his Upper East Side apartment on a cold February night, it was a mistake. We had talked for so […]

Melany Perez
Prayer Beads

At five years old, I decided to preserve my mother.  Biting my nails beneath the covers as she tucked me in, brow furrowed in angst, I asked her to tell me everything. What was she like as a kid? What were the names of her elementary school teachers? What kind of bubblegum did she chew? I had to capture every detail, afraid that parts of her would vanish if I didn’t.

First week casualties

On the first Monday of the school year, I stripped down to my underwear in the hallway outside my dorm. I’d called my suitemates several […]