parallel magazine

Why We’ve Been MIA

Some of you may be wondering why Parallel hasn’t posted anything since March 14th (and for those of you who never noticed, yes, it’s true, we haven’t posted in 5 months). Thankfully, the explanation is very clear, reasonable, and straightforward: Parallel’s hiatus was due to a variety of…

Mango and Spring

Poems 2014/15

2015 Spring Poem Collection

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”

Gross!

Same Principle of Ugly Fruit Found to Apply to Ugly Beef, Ugly Cows, Ugly Rancher, His Ugly…

TO MEASURE

Centimetres, inches, do you believe in god?

Pounds, deepest fears, feet

I wish there was a simple way to measure

The people that I meet.

Standing Up to the Tyranny of Nutjobs

by Julia S.

Handheld Evils

by Emma G.

In today’s day and age, cell phones have become a large part of everyone’s lives. What’s…

Man Buns (No, not those ones)

by Katherine L.

Where is the news?

by Vincent M.

It’s been about a month since the Charlie Hebdo shootings: a horrific terrorist incident that resulted in numerous deaths, including that of the infamous satirical editor Stephane Charbonnier, a.k.a. Charb. The incidents were blamed on reactions to…