Body of Work
What is a body but flesh and bone given life. Muscles and tissue bound together in a vast network. A thing to fear and hate and be...
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our literature
Eric Nhem
- Feb 5
- 15 min
Quarter Life Crisis
MAY 2021 A scream erupts from Max’s throat. He won the lottery! Well, the next best thing. Max reads the first words of the email again:...
Prerna Kulkarni
- Feb 5
- 2 min
Unusual Fields
Dear Asian Youth, “Just like Daddy,” six-year-old me wanted to be an electrical engineer. My dad has been working with computers for most...
Elisha-Grace King
- Feb 5
- 2 min
Dear Rejection Letter
This message is to high schoolers to assure them that their worth is not defined by what schools they get into, but by their effort.
Li Yin
- Feb 3
- 2 min
All I Feel is Joy
I want to explore how moving around all though my life impacted my unique relationship with all the people I love, scattered in the world...
Chris Fong Chew
- Feb 3
- 1 min
Dear Memory
A letter about how memory shades our idea of the past, alluding to colors and filters that shape how we might remember a time or event.
Autumn McIntyre
- Jan 16
- 5 min
Good Behavior Part 1
Xiao Dan “And what did Principal Gagnon say?” “That I must’ve misheard. And that I shouldn’t eavesdrop on the boy’s locker room.” Xiao...
Autumn McIntyre
- Jan 16
- 8 min
Good Behavior Part 2
Xiao Dan Xiao Dan had never smelled anything worse than the boy’s locker room. She stopped herself from gagging and sucked in a breath....
Vedaharshita Kolipakula
- Jan 9
- 1 min
limerence
"there are plenty of fish in the sea / their lustrous scales shimmer brightly"
Eunice Kim
- Jan 9
- 1 min
Summer Of
Revisiting my experiences with summer, touching on themes of innocence and childhood
Mithila Rohit Tambe
- Jan 9
- 1 min
Humidity
"Our strides are parallel. The clouds / are as white as hanboks, / and we are shocked / by the insanity of breathing."
Emily Dissanayake
- Jan 9
- 1 min
Boyish
It sounds a little mundane, but I want to try to turn a few moments at the barber into something significant. I cut my hair short, which ...
Anuva Chowdhury
- Jan 9
- 2 min
the rain is afraid of you too.
in this monsoon, the climate is scared in the way of something that’s changing too quickly. where our hands tear its hair out and it spin...
Jennifer Vu
- Jan 9
- 4 min
AP Statistics Changed My Narrative
I know I’m not the only one who feels like this, as AP Calculus AB tested everyone’s math performance. Kumon set me up for the class quit...
Chloe Lee
- Jan 9
- 2 min
she is mortal
though perhaps, the gift of life
is its fleetingness;
perhaps it is our mortality that is most beautiful
Jasmine BaoChau Pham
- Dec 1, 2022
- 2 min
Ông Bà
For you, I hopelessly cling
to my belief in the supernatural.
Perhaps one day,
Lilirose (Rose) Luo
- Nov 2, 2022
- 1 min
白蛇传 / transformation
but you do not hear them. if you had, you would have known to flee—
tripping over the calluses of your own feet to escape.
if you had...
Sukriti Sinha (Shea)
- Oct 29, 2022
- 1 min
insomnia with my coffee
my belongings strewn carelessly
across my bed, my shrine,
sprout eyes at night,
watchfully gazing over my feverish stupor,
and upon my...
Anuva Chowdhury
- Oct 27, 2022
- 2 min
in this prayer i don't have a name
i know nobody. i swear. nobody knows me.
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