I started my college journey in Atlanta at Georgia Tech. It was a fine school filled with wonderful people. But something irked me about it: perhaps the career-focused mentality of my peers, perhaps the engineering-focused mentality of the faculty. But most of all I was irked by Georgia Tech’s lac[...]
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October 31st, 2008 - 11:59 pm § in narrative
The Gate Deemed Unfit Venue for Student Art Display: Allegedly Pro-life Art Gets the Boot
Last year, a number of Brown’s eating establishments invited students to put their original art on the walls. Since then, the walls have slowly become smattered with the good, the bad, the ugly, and the sometimes funny art of Brown University students. On one of the walls at the Gate there is a co[...]
October 31st, 2008 - 11:59 pm § in main story, narrative
A Pilgrimage into the Real World
The sky was already pitch black when the driver told us to get off. “End of the line,” he said. “There’s not really much left past here, so we don’t continue.” My companion Gian Pablo and I plunged into the cold of a southern winter’s night. Our conversation turned from logistics to li[...]
April 22nd, 2008 - 11:59 pm § in main story, narrative
Confessions of a sex-crazed Christian: the non-adventures of a 25-year-old virgin
Sex. I love sex! It’s constantly on my mind. Sex, sex, sex, all day long, baby! Oh yes, you know what I’m talking about. There’s nothing better. Sex is sooo good, I just gotta have it! … I really wish I had it. So there’s my plight, which is the same plight as the vast [...][...]
April 22nd, 2008 - 11:59 pm § in narrative
Does it make a difference?
As I sat around the coffee table chatting with my cousins on New Years Eve, my aunt walked into the room and announced that, per request of my grandfather, we were going to have a brief life-prep workshop. As you might imagine, the prospect of talking about careers and how to prepare for crazy inter[...]
November 17th, 2007 - 4:30 pm § in narrative
Want a pulitzer?
Unfortunately, for most of us, this picture is the closest we’ll ever get. But don’t let that stop you. If you have a short story that you’re itching to get published, we wouldn’t want you to chafe. So stop itching, and send it to us. Send fiction submissions to fiction@closi[...]