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on violins [narrative]
By Danielle Li | May 1It is difficult for me to wax poetic about the beauty of a stringed instrument in a way that hasn’t been done before by countless violinists, violists, cellists, and bassists. In fact, my description would be much lesser in fluency and articulation, albeit meant with the same sincerity.
a matter of time [narrative]
By Vanessa Tao | April 22By coincidence, every time I sit down to write a post- article, I happen to be next to my seventh-grade best friend who is the only one from home who went as far from home as me—selfishly, I dragged him to NYU when I knew I wanted to go to Brown—and we always happen to be in a coffee shop, him studying ...
perfect pitch [narrative]
By Katya Michkovskaia | April 15At the grand age of five, I didn’t have many talents, but I could do a lot of things mediocrely. For instance, I was a very musically inclined child, but not in a piano competition child prodigy way—I was mostly just constantly humming to myself and loudly singing in our K-12 choir. “Take her ...
how lucky we are to have each other how lucky i am to have you [narrative]
By Shriya Goel | April 15There are days that it rains even when the weather app promises it won’t. I still choose to trust whatever the weather app says for the next day and the day after, but you don’t. The weather is always changing and so are you, so maybe I should be changing, too. Instead, I sit still.
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in a language i can't call home [narrative]
By Samaira Mohunta | March 18Do you know that feeling when you hear a good song and want to write one too? And then you realise you can only write lyrics half as good as those, and not even in the language that you want to. I was born into a nation that teaches its mother tongue as a second language. My mouth is an instruction ...
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pro tips, life hacks, and didacticism [narrative]
By Katya Michkovskaia | March 11Renata Litvinova, a famous Russian actress, once called gossip an underrated genre. The novelty of this saying isn’t just about playing devil’s advocate for talking behind people’s backs—it’s also about considering a seamless act of everyday communication as a distinct medium. Categorizing ...
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blood [narrative]
By AnnaLise Sandrich | March 4At some point during the first year I lived in the Bay Area, I got a nosebleed so bad my dad let me skip school. I was ten years old, and the blood wouldn’t stop flowing. We could get it to slow down, but never, it seemed, to cease permanently. At first, I was happy for the opportunity to stay home—I ...
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tender on the soul [narrative]
By Tarini Malhotra, Chloe Costa Baker, AJ Wu, Gabrielle Yuan, Jessica Lee, Hallel Abrams Gerber and Elaina Bayard | February 25possibility
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what it means to be free [narrative]
By Vanessa Tao | February 25In my creative nonfiction class, we were asked to read Notes of a Native Speaker by Eric Liu. He starts the essay with a laundry list of declarations and negations, saying, “Here are some of the ways you could say I am ‘white.’” It made me wonder which identity everything in my life spun around—which ...
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rumination [narrative]
By Christina Li | February 18Under the moon, I do not sleep. I gnaw at my fingernails. I fix my sights on an indifferent body. I invent words for myself that will never leave these walls. I recite them, letting each syllable linger a second longer than necessary. I put ink to paper, which is to say I dream with my eyes wide open. ...
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everybody’s walking in twos [narrative]
By Coco Kanders | February 18I used to be quite good at being alone. I almost preferred it—yearned for it, even. It bewilders me now, the ease with which I once sought solitude. During the world's most ungodly period of isolation (the pandemic), I managed, perversely, to intensify it. While the rest of my family huddled around ...
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power play [narrative]
By Coco Kanders | February 11Recently, two friends and I put on different variations of 24-inch-long wigs and danced around a basement. Mine was dark at the root, metallic blonde, semi-chic, like Gaga in her meat dress. The wigs were heavy and sliding down our foreheads, shedding strands like molting animals onto the oak-stained ...
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goodbye for now, Providence [narrative]
By Ana Vissicchio | February 11I have always lived in the same place—the same suburban town, the same quiet house, the same small bedroom.
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first snow [narrative]
By Samaira Mohunta | February 4My roommates point at the window. Look outside, they say. It’s all white, everything is white. The snow is coming down fast. But this is not the first snow we wanted, not how we wanted it. I’m sorry you had to leave. And I’m sorry you had to leave the way you did. But where did you go? You didn’t ...
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the art of dismemberment [narrative]
By Christina Li | December 3The scene is Paris, 1912. Following an excursion to Amsterdam for a personal exhibition, artist Henri Le Fauconnier returns to his home galleries. He is among his fellow Salon Cubists again, the spearheaders and rulers of the burgeoning movement that has taken over the public Parisian salons—mainly ...
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unlikely lovers [narrative]
By Vanessa Tao | December 3The stage lights switch on. The pit plays its first notes, and the audience goes quiet.
