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More truly and more strange

13 writers, thinkers, conversationalists, half undergrads and half recent grads from University of Michigan

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Randa Sakallah
Sep 12, 2016

A brief interaction

After a shawarma dinner this evening, a friend and I stopped into a little shop on Valencia street in San Francisco. Its…

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Emma K
Aug 12, 2016

Saying I love you

It’s summer and Washington is hot. Foggy and heavy, we fight like children, whining about our own sweat and the way the taxis never have AC.

I lean over and the fake leather seats in the cab squeak under my bare thighs.

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Ally Setton
Aug 5, 2016

Always

What will become of us?

This question lies beneath the palms

Of lovers Losing

the battle to Time.

A question that lurks at the bottom of their stomachs,

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Isaiah Zeavin-Moss
Aug 2, 2016

8/1/16–8/2/16

8/1/16–8/2/16

A pair of text messages from Zak Witus at 7:36 PM Central European Time (which is my time zone because I am sitting in a hotel room in Torino, Italy — which, my mom tells me, is often considered the ‘Detroit of Italy’ with all the locally made Fiats buzzing…

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Eva Durand Roos
Aug 1, 2016

On my mind

Here is a random slice of things on my mind, right now as I write, not at all cumulative of everything up there, just what’s flashing to the front in this very moment:

I have a friend who told me at the end of this past semester, “I’m beginning to realize that absolutely everything…

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Emma K
Jul 28, 2016

Watering the Lawn

It would begin to smell like grass in seconds. The rain was sudden and chilling, hitting the tips of leaves, saying unendingly, shhhhh…

From the covered porch, I watch patches of it move over the lake’s surface like white clouds crossing a blue sky, leaving different…

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Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven
Jul 28, 2016

The Democratic Party is the Republican Party and it wants its Elusive Southern White Man back

I read this book 2 years ago written by historian Nancy Cohen called “Delirium: The Politics of Sex in America.” Chapter 2 talks about the 1972 election between Nixon and…

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Aaron Finglass
Jul 28, 2016

Living in Between Dreams

We drove down route 16, blasting Pink Floyd. Our trailer, filled with canoes and gear, bounced behind us. We were coming back from northern New Hampshire, where we paddled the Androscoggin river, Sean and I, along with six campers. A man was idling on the side of the road as we turned…

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Aby Pickard
Jul 25, 2016

Does Donald Trump even exist?

Because why not start there? It’s a fruitful question since it helps us understand the ways that Trump and mainstream media characters like Trump exist (e.g., Hillary Clinton, Kanye West). This question also lends itself to a forceful critique our mainstream media—how they…

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Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven
Jul 3, 2016

“I’m all for feminism, but you’re being abrasive,” or: Why I apologize incessantly to rude men

In my backyard we have these 3 trees that were planted dead and so they never grew. My mom has been telling the landscaper, Ivan, this for years. They were dead, they…

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Emma K
Jun 28, 2016

i went to the bathroom

The bathrooms

on the eleventh floor

alternate from men on the left,

women on the right

to women on the left,

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