Yale Daily News

Cassia fistula. An inhabitant of paradise, rising only where rain falls. Licorice pulp case seeds in long pods. A sweet bitterness that licks teeth and […]

November 15, 2024

  Jesus sucked our sins from the world like venom from a snakebite. He puckered up and prepared to love, ingesting our evil in the […]

October 12, 2024

Illustration by Anna Chamberlin This piece received an honorable mention in the fiction category of the 2o24 Wallace Prize. Here’s Lisa May, in late-night lamplight, […]

May 7, 2024

Illustration by Thisbe Wu This piece received third place in the fiction category of the 2024 Wallace Prize. When the girl named Lucy Tatum was […]

May 7, 2024

Illustration by Emily Zhang This piece received second place in the fiction category of the 2024 Wallace Prize. Dr. David Rosen had lived in Lubbock […]

May 7, 2024

Illustration by Anna Chamberlin This piece received first place in the fiction category of the 2024 Wallace Prize. I won’t deny that it did take […]

May 7, 2024

In the gray morning light, I walked through the forest behind my father. I dragged my hands across the moss that grew up the sides […]

May 7, 2024

I owed Mike seven more than I was good for.  “And if you don’t pay me next week? No. Now.”  We’d begun betting a few […]

February 9, 2024

The mermaid’s back is killing her. She wishes she’d been whittled into a less awkward posture—sitting, standing even, not bending belly-up across the fireplace. No […]

November 14, 2023

He’d always had the feeling that his mother would die for him. It still came as a surprise when she actually did—a foot in the dark expecting one more step. Now he was alive and she wasn’t. That had never been true before.

April 28, 2023

People are hollow like ghosts, and the whole world is hollow, and I can’t get over that lurking sadness. Most days I wake up thinking […]

October 30, 2022