By Rosanne Pagano And why would the gate be banging in the wind, the front door opened wide, the bedroom cold as a stray cat’s soul, and every dish, every cup, every saucer smashed to bits? …oh why bother telling him now, a man too timid to cross his own threshold when she had needed him most.
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Don’t Talk to Strangers
By Natasha Webster I never knew why they taught us to “Never talk to strangers”. That is, until I stopped talking to myself.
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Cover Photo Contest Winner!
The Turnagain Currents team would like to give a big thank you to everyone who participated in our first annual Cover Photo Contest for the eighth edition journal! We received so many amazing submissions that it made it terribly difficult for us to pick just one, but we finally narrowed it down to the top three. Congratulations to our winner, Julia Ditto! First Place: Julia Ditto “In the summer of 2019, Roman Dial led a 360-mile expedition across the eastern Brooks Range. The team of four undergraduates and two graduate students collected data on the advancement of white spruce treeline in the arctic. The team traveled on foot and by…
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“Brooks Range Mountain Series”
By Julia Ditto
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“Red Sheep Side Creek” (Brooks Range)
By Julia Ditto
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“Brooks Range Topographic Series”
By Julia Ditto
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“Ode to Wilderness”
By Julia Ditto
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The First Amendment and Football
By Lucille Berliant The First Amendment reads, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” (2) It’s not a simple sentence and, as a result, interpretations of it have varied over the centuries. New laws surrounding what defines free speech are continuously made, for example, a threat is not protected under free speech. (7) Does Colin Kapernick kneeling during a football to protest human rights count as free speech? (8) In a publicly…
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L’affaire Du Pain Maudit
By Lucille Berliant I consider myself a highly skeptical person. I don’t believe in ghosts, goblins or anything in between. The shadows in my room are just shadows. I do, however, have one fatal flaw. I love the stories that come from the horrors of the night. Folk-lore especially, I will study for hours. Since I am a skeptic, however, I have found myself constantly searching for the nuggets of truth hidden within the folk lore. What really happened, oftentimes, is far scarier than the monsters we create. My personal favorite explanation is one for the Salem Witch Trials and what really sent the town into madness. The cause of…
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Interstellar Objects
By Lucy Berliant Everything known is limited to what is in our literal and theoretical reach. (2) Our knowledge, to put it crudely, “of how things work”, is all within the Heliopause. That is as far as our suns flow reaches. (1) By everything we know, it’s not just in terms of science, our history, our biology, our literature; all of what we know and have ever known is contained within this bubble. The significance of an interstellar object is contact with the unknown. Space holds everything that we could possibly discover. Currently our technology can’t take us out of the Heliopause, so we rely on interstellar objects coming to…
