You are what you are until you aren’t. A string of three letters and seven numbers, a barcode unique to you and you alone, sits unremarkably at the top of a webpage that maybe ten people will ever read. One more blip of information in an endless sea of data. My eyes don’t even register …
Category: Prose
‘Origin Stories’ by Kaivallya Dasu
“Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider.” “Superman is an alien who escaped his dying planet and grew up on earth.” “Isaac Newton discovered gravity when an apple hit his head.” These are all stories that have gone on to become mythologized in our cultural consciousness. And if you’re growing up with an interest …
‘Syncope’ by Jenny Chen
On the 4th of July, my dad downed two glasses of whiskey at dinner. We’d spent the afternoon hiking along the resplendent shores of Walden Pond. Lapping against rocks and sand, the bright green water had been dotted with families gambolling about in bathing suits. At the pond’s far edge, beneath the pine trees’ variable …
