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To be fair, I think my apprecia on for the make-believe increases exponen ally with each coming year. Io en spend hours at work spinning elaborate scenariosin my head, ranging anywhere from make-believe taxevasion to imagined relaxa on. Rather pathe cally, asI grow older I delve deeper into my own head, whereemo on collides with ca eine and an overac ve imagi-na on, all in some desperate a empt to escape reality.

Friends like to tell me that I act somewhere between agestwenty-six and y-three, before marital desires and on the cuspof a mid-life crisis, skipping childhood altogether. I gure it must bethe disdain for youthful irta ons, or a tendency to reason my wayout of everything, or my general enjoyment of foods high in ber.

Among the daily angst ritualsof adolescence, I nd wri ng to be themost sensible thing a girl can do. Dur-ing a developmental stage dictated bycyclic spurts of estrogen and biologicalpurpose, words are certainly a stabiliz-ing force, spinning together the nonsen-sical thoughts romping about my headlike schoolchildren with the deeper emo-

ons that remain squirreled safely away.This issue of Glues ck contains

elements of our swing-set days to pimpledconfusion to the sort of ageless anxiet-ies that will nag us into organic ma eragain. Readers be warned, many piecesaddress issues like rape, sexuality, loveand death. But good wri ng is always

quite near to strong emo on, and thesestudents are unafraid of confron ng it.

Thy Vo, Editor-in-Chief

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The Birds and the Bees by Julie NguyenTick-Tock by Katya Su l

Ill be your Friend and Silence by Thucdan TonDo you like to eat Tangerines? by Shawn Chen

Another Frustrated Love Story by Elizabeth KohUnobtainable by Elizabeth Fitz

Both by Medha RajLost my Way by Jonathan Berry Smith

From Beneath You it Devours by Gabe BergadoThe Eye by Yvonne Ng

Li le Rabbit Heart by Mai-Anh HaLast Night by Erato

If Only by Anaoshak KhavarianI Less-Than-Three Katamari by Christopher Nguyen

The Princes Inquisi on by Edwin NgDi erent...Just Like Everyone Else by Chris ne Parker

Sneezes and Sorrows by Lauren BermudezSpelling by Jenny Park

There Would Be by Mai-Anh Ha

CONTRIBUTORS

GLUESTICK 2008-2009ADVISER: TAYLOR

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another frustrated love storyby Elizabeth Koh

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[i dont want to wake up if youre not here + heart + cities]

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la st n igh tby erato

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