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The Stranger

Volume VII, Number IV

What makes someone a stranger? Are humans innately suspicious of others? Writers explore not only those who appear different or as outsiders — our traditional understanding — but also broader interpretations of the unknowable: memories of the past, lives of fictional characters, even parts of their innermost selves.

Cover Artwork: Amy Liu

The Big Question

When Is It Important to Preserve Boundaries?

by Gracie Griffin

My boundaries are marked by tack holes and curling edges, by yellowed paper and ripped corners.

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More Stories

Features

i am Other

by Misbah Awan

I sit here for 45 minutes, probably more, thinking about the question bouncing around in my head: Why does everyone seem to be stapled to one identity and I’m in a state of ambivalence?.

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Features

Relative Strangers

by William Lohier

Masterfully orchestrated, these stories have been brought to life by the people that have survived decades to tell them, people I love dearly but will never truly understand — my grandparents.

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Features

Simply Strangers?

by Skyler Sallick
Awesome Moments

Believing is Seeing

by Jung Woo Bae
Awesome Moments

My Island Escape

by Elizabeth Ralph
Interfaith Connections

The Stranger

by Mustafa Khan
Interfaith Connections

Ideals Versus Reality

by Vanita Sharma
Interfaith Connections

(Re)Frame of Reference

by Lizsandra Montiel
Media

A Review of A Step from Heaven

by Valerie Zhang
Media

A Review of Brown Girl Dreaming

by Meera Bhalla
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Poetry

Ostracism

by Casey Robins

She’s an ostrich.
She has a long neck
so she can see behind big heads.

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Dangling, Dirty Shoes

by Emily Chaflin

A Season of Blossom

by Yashashree Ghatge

My Stranger

by Liam Shields

A Color of Our Own

by Fatema Karimi

Me and Me

by Willa DuBois

Strange Experience

by Will Hodgkinson

PerSpectives

Honoring the Stranger

by The Interfaith Amigos

Because my family moved to an outlying suburb of Cleveland, I began 9th grade at a new school.

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