Category: Poetry, Prose and Comedy

Pocket Full of Prozac

Vicki Saeed | May 4, 2017 | 0 Comments

Welcome to Hell, Idiot.

Eat Your Feelings

Soubhana Asif | May 3, 2017 | 0 Comments

Fantastical thoughts in times of desperation.

We forget that milk

Huey Wu | May 2, 2017 | 0 Comments

Recall milk as a sacrifice.

’00s Pop Hits: A Journey through Memory

Charlie Scanlan | April 21, 2017 | 0 Comments

Listening to a video of the biggest hits from the ’00s and ’10s, I was brought on a violent journey through my own memories, from my earliest thoughts to three days ago. Here are some of the highlights.

IKEA

Nathan Motulsky | April 21, 2017 | 0 Comments

The Gettorp in black-brown, the couple in white-white, the baby in white-brown. The husband pushes the cart. The baby sits facing him. He wonders if he knows.

Boston’s Application for New Hometown

Violet Acevedo | April 1, 2017 | 0 Comments

Position: New Hometown at Adulting Inc. Address applications to Recent College Grad.

Thurmophobia

Aaraf Afzal | March 30, 2017 | 1 Comment

Thurmophobia (n., thur-mo-pho-bee-aah), or the fear of common ground.

Family Business

Soubhana Asif | March 30, 2017 | 0 Comments

There’s nothing wrong with continuing a path that has already been forged.

Love Letter from the Edge of Reason

Vicki Saeed | March 28, 2017 | 1 Comment

For those aching to escape from obsession’s embrace

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