Fahed Anon.

Male, Other, Story

Untitled Waking up on that hospital bed on a Monday afternoon, I had absolutely no sense of direction, nor did I understand how my life would play out from then on. In my sophomore year, I came to a grim realization that I essentially had no control over my life, and...

Noelle Videon

Female, Story, White

Untitled It’ so easy to talk about how wonderful a person was after they die. But Ashley really was special. I knew this when she was alive, though. She taught me so many things through the 4 years I was lucky enough to call her a friend; And much more bitter...

Nina Krishnan

Story

Untitled The prints of paintings framed in Stanford Hospital’ Inpatient Psychiatric Facility’ walls fascinated me, not only for their aesthetic, but also as a fellow artist. I pictured myself in the artists’ places, painting the landscape around...

Shruti Jain

Asian-American, College 9, Female, Story

The Beauty of … My hand was not able to cope with the fast pace of my brain; it had stopped cooperating. My train of thought was derailed into a cloud of disarray. In one final attempt to finish the last problem, I tried to pick up the pencil. It fell, along with the...