​​The Claremont Colleges literary magazine | Current issue: FRICTION

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The Birds
Audrey Gruian

Mrs. Corbeau didn’t know the difference between a robin and a sparrow, but if it was dark and shrieking, she shot it. To hell with whatever creature refused to delay its incessant caw for just a few hours more, to hell with its blaring trill! The darned things had been the cause of her poor sleep and headaches for the past week; she knew this for a fact.

Sketch Charcoal
Juju Wang

she just moved to LA
Jeremy Martin
It is 1:00 in the morning on a Saturday night, I am in a UCLA In-N-Out Burger, and I want a strawberry milkshake. I’m going to get a #3 combo (raw onions, hold the tomato) and I want a strawberry milkshake.
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Sisters, not twins
Emma Choy

hourglass
Isabel Li
 years spent
chasing gravity,
unearthing a wormhole
upon which your footprints
dissolved
into 
vertigo: 
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Self Portrait, Dreaming
Reia Li

supermarket assimilation
Valerie Braylovskiy
I bought a grapefruit today. After a four-month hiatus from the supermarket. Time created a yearning for errands I once dreaded. 

The Act
Eli Heart

convenient
Cecelia Blum
​above the paperwhite expanse
one million incandescent suns
are in position
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Continental Drift
Annika Weber
The fundamentals of the floating trees.
Say it’s dark inside and 
he is standing there about the channel,
waves accruing everywhere.

On Tea
Adam Osman-Krinsky
How can you taste a routine?
Centuries of waking up,
Millenia of water boiling, tasting
Leaves us becoming human.

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