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November 29, 2018

“Tsundoku” By Leo Yamanaka-Leclerc

My grandmother slept / in an alcove in her living room wall, / early-century façade solidified amidst the war […]

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November 29, 2018

“Wild Creatures” By Bonney Ruhl

Shall I tell you a story? […]

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November 29, 2018

“Lunarian Dreams to Court” By Ivy Tang

This piece is a spoof of traditional courtly presentation. The elites in this culture, anthropomorphic creatures (left), assess the masked boy’s presentation of his “ideal world”, while a masked mother figure looks on (right)[…]

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November 29, 2018

“The St. Leon Wind Farm” By Alex Day

We pulled off the highway / because I didn’t know how to turn / the windshield wipers on in my grandpa’s truck[…]

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November 29, 2018

“Night Terrors and Sinister Daydreams: Oneiric Doubles and Psychologies of Moral Management in Jane Eyre and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” By Mabon Foo

Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde both explore instances of duality that negotiate issues of morality and self-control within the Victorian psychological conceptualization of dreams. By exploring popular psychological trends of the era and discussing their influence on dream studies and morality, a framework shall be developed to discuss the mental struggles in the novels[…]

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November 29, 2018

“For Me, It’s My Nose” By Katrina Martin

I recently read an article about why I should get a nose job. It was written by an illustrious Instagram influencer who had recently undergone the knife[…]

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November 29, 2018

“lunch” By Lidia Cooey Hurtado

dollop of sour cream […]

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November 29, 2018

“Naming in Tolkien and Williams: Semantics vs. Reference” By Jameson Thomas

This paper seeks to analyze naming strategies employed in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Silmarillion and Charles Williams’ All Hallows Eve […]

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November 29, 2018

“An Acknowledgement” By Jake Clark

What you don’t know doesn’t hurt you / But what you won’t know always will […]

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November 29, 2018

“A/S/L?” By Esther Chen

tonight i posted in the subreddit community r/ama and called it ‘im stoned and i have a broken heart AMA’ […]

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November 29, 2018

“The Postmodern Sublime: Fredric Jameson’s Bonaventure Hotel” By Claire Geddes Bailey

In 1756, Edmund Burke defined the sublime as “that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror” (49) […]

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November 29, 2018

“[you bug me]” By Jia Yue He

just a few months ago you were a worm[…]

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November 29, 2018

“Schrodinger’s Gap” By Gabriela Arno

Do you know when you’ve lived with a truth for so long that it ceases to be incredible? Like the “yeah, my dad is Sting” sort, cue gasps and bashful eye roll[…]

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April 5, 2018

“When Grandfather Died” by Liam Siemens

When Grandfather Died Poem by Liam Siemens Art by Enid Au   At the dinner table, I watch my sister’s hair shrink back into her..

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