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Glyph, Volume 23

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When I was in college, the humanities department would occasionally publish a collection of student stories for the benefit of the rest of the school. Reading through these stories, you would get a taste of early writing skill, some much better than others, and some worthy of being published in commercial publications versus free academic ones, possibly for a grade. Some stories were great, with maybe a little roughness around the edges, while other stories weren’t at all enjoyable.

I suppose this is the fate of student publications. There are only so many students who are either taking a class to improve or hone their narrative skills or otherwise major in it (for my school, an engineering school, this latter number was 0), and as such, there are only so many works in the pool from which to select. If the publication must reach a certain page limit, then the fewer works there are, the more likely that there will be less than great stories in the mix.

However, with some student publications, they are driven by, you guessed it, the students, who may have a certain appreciation for the written word, but can both be biased towards the works of their friends, or may have certain stylistic preferences which may not reflect the desired stylistic preferences of the publication’s target audience. I for one, when I was in the position of vetting works for a student publication, did not recommend any that had vulgarity for vulgarity sake. Because of that, I cannot expect anybody else to be any more noble than I when it comes to deciding which works one selects for ones publication. I may have not wanted to read such works, while the entire student body for whom the publication was to be made may. Yes, I’m a narrow-minded slush pile reader, but at the same time, I guess I’m not a hypocrite.

Nevertheless, long introductions aside, I found this issue of Glyph, a publication of Santa Fe University of Art and Design to be better, for the most part, than what I was expecting from a student publication. Most of the stories within involved college-aged persons going through college-aged problems, yet, instead of seeming like an overly dramatic, sappy, and emotional ride-along, the stories were vibrant, the characters were real. Though these writers, like every college-aged person, doesn’t really know anything (again, speaking from personal experience: the amount of information, especially life lessons I know shadows any life lessons I may have learned in my early 20s and earlier), they managed to convince me that they knew what it was like to be a human capable of feelings, without letting their feelings seep across the page like some greasy smudge. Some of the stories even transcended this college-aged viewpoint, and made me wonder how so many stupid kids (the term here is used lovingly) could know so much about the world.

There were some stories that weren’t my cup of tea, as is expected. I’m not the target audience. With each passing year, I step further and further away from their target audience. Nevertheless, this collection, which I assume is the “best” of the stories submitted, is definitely a collection of well written and sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but never too much as to seem outlandish, stories, creative non-fiction, and poems.

While it was easy to determine which of the works were poems, I had trouble distinguishing between some of the fiction pieces and some of the creative non-fiction pieces. The line between a realistic yet implausible story and a plausible yet unrealistic story was oft crossed. This, I think, should be considered a compliment.

I think that Glyph, while a publication not geared towards someone like me, may in fact be a publication worth reading by most people interested in getting a glimpse of what tomorrow’s writers are writing about today. ( )
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