ESSAYS


  • #WENEEDEDIT

    #WENEEDEDIT

    by caitlyn syman Remember that guy that you hooked up with last year in a dark basement up against a beer pong table? Yeah, the one that has a warped idea of what six inches actually is and a tongue that could probably make it to China if he treated ground the way he treated… Read more

  • FIRST SNOW

    FIRST SNOW

    The first snow always reminds me of you and brings with it an intense melancholy. I can’t help but look out the window and be saddened by the thought of you 1000 miles away in the bed of someone that I don’t know. Four years ago at this time we were just meeting for the… Read more

  • AN ANDROGYNOUS ACQUAINTANCE

    AN ANDROGYNOUS ACQUAINTANCE

    by Esther Forbin   The first time I met Shadow I was tripping. It was the first week of college and I had a bad case of mushroom poisoning. He curled up in my lap for hours on end, sitting on the bench on our front lawn. He was thin, and as dark and elusive… Read more

  • IT’S MY SISTER’S 15TH BIRTHDAY

    IT’S MY SISTER’S 15TH BIRTHDAY

    Exactly fifteen years ago, my little sister was brought into this wonderful, confusing, tumultuous clusterfuck of a world. Where has the time gone? Generally, I am not what one would call sentimental, but because I cannot be with her on her big day –and because freshmen year royally sucked – I compiled a list of… Read more

  • HOW TO BE A DOUCHEBAG: YOUR EVERY DAY HOW TO GUIDE

    HOW TO BE A DOUCHEBAG: YOUR EVERY DAY HOW TO GUIDE

    There are many things to remember when speaking of “How to be a Douchebag.” Douchebags like me come in many shapes and sizes in this day and age, but we are going to talk mainly about how to be a bro-like douchebag. The first thing to remember is talk like a bro. It’s a tone… Read more

  • CIXELSYD DYSLEXIA

    CIXELSYD DYSLEXIA

    When life gives you lemons you make lemonade, unless you’re dyslexic then life gives you melons. Good One. I feel bad for dyslexic children when they try to write to Santa but instead write to Satan. Right. So, like, if you’re dyslexic can you not read? And here we go. I was diagnosed with dyslexia… Read more