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Evergreen Terrors: 2 Chibi Chibi Con

May 08 '24May 08 '24
Isak Urrego Bailen

Ritual Festivity 15/03/2024 I don’t know, nor would I dare ponder, how it was Matcha came to ascend beyond the confines of printed paper. But I am certain they are now a force greater than those who willed it into existence. Ideas are such fickle things–one moment an extension of […]

Community Short Stories

Evergreen Horrors: Whispers…

Dec 01 '23Dec 01 '23
Isak Urrego Bailen

The sleepless Greener’s bane, a low murmur promising gossip, just to deliver incoherent flicks of the tongue and fade. Clawing itself up and down the aimless maze of pipes in the Evergreen dorms without destination or purpose. It exists to exist, and taunts us for our delusions of more.  Name: […]

Community Short Stories

Evergreen Horrors: Moon Eyes

Oct 18 '23Oct 18 '23
Isak Urrego Bailen

Resident of the Evergreen woods and wanderer of realms beyond. Some have taken to calling this entity Moon Eyes. On the surface it is seen as one of the more mundane oddities that reside in Olympia. Said to be some accursed fey or alien visitor, it’s always on the move, […]

Arts & Culture Lit 'n Crit Short Stories

CANOE – A Flowing Fiction by Mj Richards

Apr 20 '23Apr 24 '23
Mj Richards

none of this is real

Lit 'n Crit Short Stories

Evergreen horrors article #2: The Night Walker

Feb 15 '23Feb 12 '23
Kavon King

Isak Luna Urrego Bailén Simultaneously one of the most frequently seen and least understood cryptids on campus. While many have gazed upon it, few realize this blurry figure wandering the night is anything but human. Those with common sense have nothing to fear, but those who like to chase shadows […]

Community Short Stories

Speedyfication: The hot new trend that may be changing someone you know into a bivalve

Jan 19 '23Jan 13 '23
Hero Winsor

It seems like some students at The Evergreen State College are taking the immortal orders of our school’s fight song to “swivel about,” and “let it all hang,” out all too seriously.  Revolutionary new technology is now allowing human geoducks to become actual geoducks. Thorn Foster, who lists their inspirations […]

Arts & Culture Print Edition Short Stories

The Murder of Speedy Geoduck

Jan 26 '22Mar 13 '22
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ERRATICA: FROM THE DESK OF FIORE AMORE, ESQ. OLYMPIA, OCTOBER 29th The Committee for Pleasant Journalism, a clandestine organization dedicated to uncovering the rot, silica, and asbestos from the hidden channels of the Evergreen State College, was prevented from screening the seminal 1983 body horror film “Videodrome” by David Cronenberg. […]

Print Edition Short Stories

CAFÉ FUN

Nov 17 '21Nov 17 '21
Mj Richards

by Michael Richards The door to Café Fun was a troublesome one to open. It had been built a hair too large and stuck against the frame, which made a terrible cracking sound when you tried to push it. If you could get past this, the door would fly open […]

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