[First place Synapse Storytelling Contest Winner for photography.] Maestra Rocio Morales, a Zapotec healer and community leader mourns the dispossession of earth-based healing practices and ...

Sutro Tower, as seen from Alta Plaza Park in Pac Heights. The westward setting sun blasts an orange columnated glow, warming a bare tree and a huddled couple. Late November 2022, the wind at this ...

Trying to find harmony with the world around you and your mind is a delicate group dance of sorts, with many characters like ...

Originally published in Synapse on October 3, 1977.

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[Second place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest for nonfiction.] Art always seems to portray madness so romantically. But the... [Originally published in Synapse on October 3, 1977.] For the ...

Originally published in Synapse on September 22, 1988. Our colleges and universities have come under highly critical ...

The organized bustle, which I had devoutly memorialized the day prior, gave way to a collection of whispers. I listened to ...