Original Fiction

"Where are you from?" she whispers. "Don't know," I answer.

It soothes me. Numbs all my worries in a way nothing else can.

I remember being excited. Something, finally, had happened to us.

An anthropomorphic lesson

She told me once: Even nice people are secretly mean

Jerris Johns felt almost giddy. Why even go to campus at all?

Fiction by Carissa Halton, Illustration by Jonathan Dyck.

People who are alright never get asked, "Are you alright?"

Amanda may not have the panache of the king penguin but she was thorough

To be young in a harsh world