Non-Fiction

A Bump in my Childhood
by Glenn Anderson, Pitzer College
The summer of my Bar-Mitzvah (the ceremony that marks the transition of childhood into adulthood in the Jewish culture) was the last summer I would spend in my old house.

Tails
by Amanda Goldblatt, Hampshire College
When I flew home from school in Massachusetts for Veteran's Day, Walter Reed Army Medical Center was not even on the itinerary.

Arrested: A Family Vacation
by Gillian Yassim, Pitzer College
We lit the firework. As soon as the fuse had begun to burn, the wind snapped it out. We were tireless in our effort.

Giants
by Matty Wise, Pitzer College
I hated swimming. As a young adolescent, the concept of wearing a Speedo that revealed a little too much to the world just wasn't cool.

Greed
by Alycia Head, Pitzer College
In three months during the fall of 2001, my dad lost $270,000.

I'm a Girl
by Jamilah King, Pitzer College
My first rude introduction to the world of femininity was at a bus stop when I was thirteen years old.

Symbolism in "The Chandelier"
by Jae H Shin, Pitzer College
"The Chandelier," written by Gregory Orfalea, is a poignant yet powerful story about Mukhlis, a man from Lebanon, sacrificing his life to save his family during World War I.'

The Hydrologic Cycle
by Emily Steele, Pitzer College
It is a force of nature that has different meanings for different people. For some of us it is a nuisance.

The Oasis
by Adam Popescu, Pitzer College
I didn't understand who I was for a long time. There's a lot of history in my family. A lot of triumph, sacrifice, failure.

Interview with Mark Musick at Vashon Co-housing
by Sylvia Hales, Fairhaven College
Mark published the Regional Tilth Newsletter from Pragtree Farm, was instrumental in the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement and farmer's markets, and networked with numerous people working for social change and alternatives to the tide of corporate expansionism.

Resurrection
by Maryse Vrambout, Fairhaven College
Writing like coming to shore, like moving in and out of consciousness, when the words penetrate deeper inside to open the door I shut so many years ago, to myself and to others. Writing like a redemption, a purification, a coming out of the purgatory.

Sonya
by Julia Buchans, Fairhaven College
I tell Sonya I am hungry and she finds food in the fridge. I am always hungry. And I eat more than she does. She will have one pea and I will have one hundred.

"We almost had one there": an informal ethnography
by Sara Lewis, Fairhaven College
My subjects: players in a soccer match of an Over 40\\\'s League. My guide for the journey was Will, the son of one of the players for the Red Zingers.

The Battle Over Shaka
by Dylan Bergeson, Fairhaven College
Shaka's fateful reign marked the first example of wide scale militaristic expansionism as he sought to unite all the tribes of southern Africa by conquest.

Excerpt from "The Vision"
by David Pike, Fairhaven College
Being human is to be a piece of this ever changing universe, a piece of the puzzling species we call humanity, a curious thread of conception amongst the infinite forms of consciousness comprising the web of life.

This Is Death
by Dayna Brayshaw, Fairhaven College
The butcher comes in a big white truck with the words "Bull Shooter" painted in red across the side. He calls himself "Keith the Killer." I cannot decide if I want to stay inside.

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