From the Thirteenth Floor
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From the Thirteenth Floor

Iris lost her focus and the crane dropped from her fingers. It fell slowly and Iris didn’t bother to see where it landed. She pulled her arm back inside and turned around on the desk, irritated and embarrassed as her ears rang in pain. By the elevators, a woman stood with a hand clamped over her eyes…

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BULLDAGGER
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BULLDAGGER

The beams of light converged on the woman at the center of the stage…

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tiktaalik
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tiktaalik

An Nguyen, a UC Davis alum, is a poet and writer based in the Bay Area. Their phone is perpetually cluttered with half-finished thoughts…

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Embrace
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Embrace

Kristin Trent is a fourth-year English major in the Creative Writing Honors program at UC Davis…

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As Much As The Moon Allows
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As Much As The Moon Allows

Monica Lee is a second-year English major pursuing a psychology minor who harbors a deep fascination regarding the processing of emotions and intrapersonal relationships…

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Iron Curtain
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Iron Curtain

Julia Marriott is a third-year psychology and sociology double-major at UC Davis…

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Enraged
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Enraged

Daniella Smigielski is twenty-one years old, and she graduated from UCSB last year…

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Ghost Story
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Ghost Story

Tom Larsen has been a fiction writer for twenty years, and his work has appeared in Newsday

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Slick
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Slick

Logan is a sophomore at UC Davis…

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The Beast
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The Beast

Isabella Elliot is a fourth-year student at UC Davis studying aerospace engineering…

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