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Over the last few years, anxiety in college students has been on the rise. In 2013, The American Psychological Association determined...

Interviewer: Echo Chapman, Class of ‘25 Interviewee: Dr. Alexis Claire, Prof. of Glass Science & Engineering Transcribed by Sam Sage...

“Squid Game,” became a hot topic on social media after Facebook and Twitter users began raving about it just a few days after its release...

By So-so Jackson Trigger: Reference to Mental Health & Suicide They told me that nothing can, Will, or is to be done. However I stand...

To those of you still alive, To us? How should I go about defining the word “alive?” Anyway, I have some things to say. To whom it may...

The moon is rising steadily in a star-dusted sky when Leona’s fingers start to turn numb. The air is bitter cold despite her thick layers...

A banner, posted on the wooden archway gate, hung in faded glory over an abandoned farm. “Walden Farm Pumpkin Patch: Mazes, Hayrides, and...

“Raymond, I would like you to walk me through exactly what happened the night of November 6th.” “I already filed the paperwork.” “We’d...

Don’t go into the woods tonight, don’t travel along the roads. The night is dark and black and cold; rain is drowning the moors. Stay by...

Last spring semester, the Honors seminar A Dark and Stormy Night created a short story anthology that strikes a little too close to home....

“The Only Good Indians” by Stephen Graham Jones Summary: Four American Indian men, and their families, are haunted by a disturbing,...

We came from different towns Different states Different countries We grew with different friends Different toys Different parents Some of...

It’s a hot, swelteringly humid Thursday night and Genieve wants nothing more than to fall into bed. Preferably face first. She’s running...

The roar of seventeen box fans blocks out the professor’s boring lecture. Your frizzy hair creates nesting habitats for birds and small...

I'm running, wheezing, out of breath- This marathon of life. A rest, a break is all I want, But there's no end in sight. "Don't go too...

“What kind of dog is that!?” yells Mark, fogging up the back seat window. I bite my tongue hard. Hard enough to imagine drinking a hot...

The semester grows, and the piles of snow make the sidewalk hard to traverse. My bank account is thin so I try to get in to a job,...

Continued from last issue *Mild profanity warning* *** “Can I bring my basketball shoes, too? I'm tired of wearing Dad's old boots....

The steel front door almost closes behind me. It's the one Ron installed a month before the divorce, and it never closes properly. It...

Imagine a world where mages and magical creatures exist under our noses, and where vine references and song lyrics become spells. In...

I. Agéd I am unbound to age, yet I have created a morbid game with myself in which I guess mine. No longer twenty, I know that to be...

I had been walking with my friends In the woods beyond our campus When I became inexplicably lost. I could not see the path ahead trod by...

Huron had only one bus stop, placed at the entrance-exit crossroads on the edge of town. The Huron-Anastasia Transit was markedly...

The story takes place in a fictional 1890s village along the Niger River, inhabited by Igbo people in what is now Nigeria. It tells the...

AU's English Division is happy to announce this year's Alfred Literary Festival. From March 19 to 21, the festival brings two visiting...

AU's English Division would like to remind once again about the upcoming Alfred Literary Festival, or “Alf” for short. In last issue's...

Do you ever feel too many feelings Like everything in a moment is just Too much Noise too loud Silence too deafening Surrounded by people...

Nothing makes sense My brain can no longer string logical thought I don't miss it The desperate feeling of trying to breathe The fist in...