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Writing in Crisis

University of Chicago

Alisa Boland
Anthony Karambelas
Brooke Werdlow
Hannah Judd
Jenna Routenberg
Lucy Ritzmann
Marie-Capucine Pineau-Valencienne
Maya Osman-Krinsky
Rachel Cohen
Spencer Gordon-Sand
Susie Xu
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Alisa Boland

Scenes From A Pandemic – Alisa

abolandDecember 18, 2020No Comment

2020-12-18T11:30:00-06:00

Image courtesy of Alex Emerson DRAMATIS PERSONAE Alisa Jessica J’s Boyfriend Michelle Tara Patrick Nick Expert J’s Lawyer A’s Lawyer Dad Susana Upperclassman-college student, the narrator. Upperclassman-college...

CPS Teacher on Distance Teaching – Alisa

aboland December 18, 2020 No Comment

2020-12-18T11:29:23-06:00

The image is taken from WBEZ. Courtesy of Rovonna Baldwin. https://www.wbez.org/stories/cps-wants-a-mix-of-in-person-and-remote-learning-this-fall/dac763d8-30d6-43cb-bf14-732bd1b803fc H is a...

Spencer Gordon-Sand

Fits Well With the Narrative

sgsandJanuary 12, 2021No Comment

2021-01-12T08:26:57-06:00

It’s 7:00 am on June 6th, 2020. As an accredited member of the press, I plan to go take pictures of protests and of police brutality… the moment I...

My Uber Eats order from Popeyes

sgsand January 12, 2021 No Comment

2021-01-12T08:16:42-06:00

My Uber Eats order from Popeyes is 1 minute away and has been for...

Hannah Judd

Clay Bodies

hjuddDecember 17, 2020No Comment

2020-12-17T13:03:55-06:00

Centering The first and hardest step; without it the next steps will fail Everything is too fast. I’m going so fast. I’m presenting at a conference, I’m writing...

the raw/the cooked/the rotten/the cultured

hjudd December 17, 2020 No Comment

2020-12-17T13:04:05-06:00

pickling defies time/defines time/denies time Here is the closet where my miso...

Anthony Karambelas

The Portrait of a Mother

awkarambelasDecember 17, 2020No Comment

2020-12-17T13:13:00-06:00

In early September of this year, a startling image of the Bidwell Bar Bridge in Oroville, California entered the Twittersphere. Primarily monochromatic, the background does most of the talking:...

The President and Me

awkarambelas December 17, 2020 No Comment

2020-12-17T13:13:12-06:00

I live ten miles from the most expensive golf course on the planet. It’s...

Maya Osman-Krinsky

My grandparents got a new TV.

Maya Osman-KrinskyDecember 16, 2020No Comment

2020-12-18T13:13:23-06:00

For watching our music, they said. I suspect my grandpa was in the market for a new gadget anyway. ...

Marie-Capucine Pineau-Valencienne

Notes on Writing— in crisis.

Marie-Capucine Pineau-ValencienneDecember 16, 2020No Comment

2020-12-18T12:40:28-06:00

I’m scared to call it reporting, I say blinking back at my professor through a Zoom window. But then again, I am scared of a lot of things. I...

A Walk in the Park

Marie-Capucine Pineau-Valencienne December 16, 2020 No Comment

2020-12-18T12:41:52-06:00

It started this summer. When we could go outside again. We awoke from that...

Lucy Ritzmann

East Meadow

Lucy RitzmannDecember 18, 2020No Comment

2020-12-18T11:16:01-06:00

When they re-emerged from the building, the stretcher between them had grown a human-shaped hump. I leaned in, breath bursting on the windowpane, peering at that strange and terrible...

City of Strangers, City of Ghosts

Lucy Ritzmann December 16, 2020 No Comment

2020-12-18T11:16:39-06:00

He was dark-coated, taller, probably college-aged or a bit younger. He was a stranger—or...

Jenna Routenberg

Crisis

Jenna RoutenbergDecember 17, 2020No Comment

2020-12-17T15:01:31-06:00

Crisis My skin feels like the sound of an engine cooling once parked, a clicking both metallic and electrical deep in my skin, and I desperately try to...

A Reason

Jenna Routenberg December 17, 2020 No Comment

2020-12-17T15:08:00-06:00

A Reason I like to watch old episodes of The West Wing and...

Brooke Werdlow

How to Become a Werewolf (Revised for Safety During a Pandemic) -A cure for what ails you.

Brooke WerdlowDecember 18, 2020No Comment

2020-12-18T12:46:02-06:00

Assuredly this is a most terrible disease, and yet not necessarily fatal, not even if it lasts for months. Indeed I have read that after several years it was...