Trying to find harmony with the world around you and your mind is a delicate group dance of sorts, with many characters like ...

Originally published in Synapse on October 3, 1977.

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Originally published in Synapse on September 22, 1988. Our colleges and universities have come under highly critical consideration of late from scholars, legislators, and university administrators ...

First place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category. The morning of October 17, the soft blue light of daybreak lingered around the PICU. I lingered too, searching for a crevice ...

[First place Synapse Storytelling Contest Winner for photography.] Maestra Rocio Morales, a Zapotec healer and community leader mourns the dispossession of earth-based healing practices and ...

Sutro Tower, as seen from Alta Plaza Park in Pac Heights. The westward setting sun blasts an orange columnated glow, warming a bare tree and a huddled couple. Late November 2022, the wind at this ...

The 2024 Synapse Storytelling Contest submissions surpassed all expectations — from gorgeous landscape photography to heartrending personal essays, from campy gore to coming of age stories, this ...