Non-Fiction

Forever Changing
Colin Blevins, Fairhaven College
I’ve been told plenty of things that people said they know for sure. Some of it I don’t believe and some I do, but there a few things that I myself know for sure…. things are always changing…

Colloquial
Bill Outlaw, New College
We were those children those odd ones…

Rape Aggression Defense Training
Mara Brownsmith, Hampshire College
What was the best way to debilitate a would-be attacker?

Frozen Winds on the Willey Slide
Bonnie Obremski, Hampshire College
“The ice is a pickpocket,” our guide, Kurt Winkler says. “It will steal all your warmth.”…

Life Long Activism – Oral History Interview from El Salvador
Justin Becker, Fairhaven College
Interviews remind us that history is subjective, and that each testimony will tell a different tale…

In Defense of Household Critters
Tiana Doht, Pitzer
I have the perfect roommate. She’s quiet, keeps mostly to herself…

A Mother’s Nature
Gillian Yassim, Pitzer College
We always left in the predawn morning. My father was at peace in those early hours...

Pedaling Into the Wind
S. D. Wright, Daemen College
There is no shame, as they say, in standing alone, not even when the arrogant winds of majority opinion blow against you…

Blue Towel
Brie Hyslop, Fairhaven College
I was full flesh and bone instinct. I gave myself over to movement—through air into humid wind, I flew.

Femme Identity:  Radical Gender from the 1940's
Megan Gibbard, Fairhaven College
I am interested in creating new ways of understanding and interrogating contemporary femme identity. I am interested in a femme identity that is completely historicized and valid by virtue of its history, desire, and lust alone.