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EVAN SUN
Digest: I became a recipe they could swallow

I bake when I have no responsibilities. Nothing tethers me to the act of whisking meringue or piping icing other than love for baking itself. This love is mineralized in succulent memories of butter-perfumed kitchens and floured marble counters. It demands a will for perfection, an eye for sugar-laced aesthetics. 

May 11, 2025

MEGAN KERNIS
Dear Life, It’s Not Your Fault

I have the fierce freedom and independence of a college student — far from my mother’s experience at twenty with twin toddlers.

May 11, 2025

INGRID RODRIGUEZ VILA
Amanda’s New Life

Amanda’s New Life is a thin volume. It’s printed in a terrible swooshy, bubbly cursive and arranged in wobbly lines of fading charcoal. Each page is a different neon color. It is the handiwork of a nine year old with great literary ambitions and not enough homework.

May 11, 2025

MEGAN KERNIS
Dear Life #2: Words Unspoken

Eleanor looked up at me with glossy, deep-set blue eyes. The corners of her pale lips were downturned, wrinkling the soft skin between her eyebrows. […]

February 13, 2025

INGRID RODRIGUEZ VILA
Cemetery of Forgotten Books #2: Ganymede, or The Golden Age of Greek Mythology Retellings

Mine is, naturally, a bed of godly proportions. This is despite the fact that I have not grown a millimeter since I was a fleshy […]

February 13, 2025

EVAN SUN
Digest #2: Matcha’s Revival

If my dorm room is my holy sanctuary, then my matcha cart is my fountain of life. Over this semester, empty matcha tins on the […]

February 13, 2025

EVAN SUN
Digest #1: Peanuts and their Auspiciousness

I was born with a short tongue, an attached lingual frenulum that keeps me grounded, hindering my ability to move my tongue as much as […]

November 15, 2024

INGRID RODRIGUEZ VILA
Cemetery of Forgotten Books #1: StormBringer

​​Fish littered the dock the next morning, thin bones poking through matted silver scales, carcasses licked clean by the rolling tide. As Belén’s eyes sailed […]

November 15, 2024

MEGAN KERNIS
Dear Life #1: The People I Would’ve Known

I killed him. The guilt wracking through me prevailed over my comparatively slight anxiety about spring semester midterms and summer research applications. I sat there […]

November 15, 2024

ELI OSEI
Short Story Long #3

  A column about my short story. An Installment about its fodder. Arranged in alphabetical order. Inspired by Sheila Heti. Journal entries, notes app lines, […]

May 4, 2024

CHELA SIMÓN-TRENCH
PIN-UP #3: Three True Things from Buenos Aires

This is Pin-Up, a column where, inspired by the informal architectural tradition of presenting designs, I “pin-up” subjects that interest me. Previously, I pinned up […]

May 4, 2024