Throwback Thursdays! We’re bringing back some of our favorite pieces from the last 30 years of Scribendi. A Kind of Skinning Nikko Harada – 1999 I wrote this essay as a response paper in Gordene CJ, Mackenzie and Shawn Hayward’s class, Transgendering the millennium: 50 Billion Galaxies of Gender. This is my answer to a comment … Read More
Us here at Scribendi know that all of you probably had a long, hard semester. It is quickly coming to a close, but in the mean time you are all stressed out with papers, presentations, and finals. Then finally you are off to celebrate your holidays of choice and your (hopefully) strong finish of the … Read More
Throwback Thursdays! We’re bringing back some of our favorite pieces from the last 30 years of Scribendi. Sakura Siandra Hoepfner- Pima Community College – 1990 At the height of its beauty, a Japanese cherry blossom, the sakura, plump and full of color, gives up its anchor on the tree. With passion and perfect grace, it lets … Read More
Throwback Thursdays! We’re bringing back some of our favorite pieces from the last 30 years of Scribendi. Point of Impact Scott Lindsey – 1996 Mark Davis thumps the top of the steering wheel with both hands as the big rig barrels down the asphalt center of the tunnel his high beams carve in the Arizona … Read More
Throwback Thursdays! We’re bringing back some of our favorite pieces from the last 30 years of Scribendi. Yesterday Gone Nicholas A Donato – University of New Mexico – 1992 The steady whirring of Red’s snow tires wound down as Peter slowed to take the Camuel exit from I-40 onto eastbound Route 66. Nor too many years … Read More
Throwback Thursdays! We’re bringing back some of our favorite pieces from the last 30 years of Scribendi. Piano Bar Blues (Last Night at the Capri Motor Lodge) Stephanie Black – Santa Monica College – 1989 THE CAPRI MOTOR LODGE PRESENTS BALENTINA THINRIDGE AT THE PIANO BAR FOR YOUR LISTENING ENJOYMENT. Imagine some poor bastard having to fit … Read More
Throwback Thursdays! We’re bringing back some of our favorite pieces from the last 30 years of Scribendi. Kansas City Blues Siandra Hoepfner-Pima Community College-1990 Autumn in Kansas City is a time when the air is newly crisp and clear and filled with the pungent, sweet smell of damp earth and decaying foliage. It is a time … Read More
The Muertos y Marigolds Parade was full of energy on Sunday, November 5. Scribendi had a pretty sweet tent—that is, we sold plain sugar skulls and had edible paint, frosting, and sprinkles for people to use to decorate the sugar skulls. The Muertos y Marigolds Parade is Albuquerque’s celebration of Día de los Muertos, a … Read More
Submissions are due TODAY! You have toiled over your pieces. You have worked long and hard to polish your submissions. You have turned them into Scribendi. And then what? Now you wait. But what happens between the submission deadline and the acceptance emails? In that long space between October 13th and February what happens? What … Read More
She considers herself to be thoughtful because she is constantly thinking a lot. She is always analyzing the world around her. For this reason, she is more reserved than many people and doesn’t talk much. When she does speak up, what she says is meaningful. This is Olivia Comstock, a National Student Exchange student from … Read More