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The Vernal Pool
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To Taste (3)
- Abstract: To Taste (3)
  PubDate: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +000
Letter from the Editor
- Abstract: A word from the Editor, Daniel Rodriguez.
  PubDate: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +000
Eye of the Beholder
- Abstract: Eye of the Beholder
  PubDate: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +000
To Taste (2)
- Abstract: To Taste (2)
  PubDate: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +000
Abe
- Abstract: Abe
  PubDate: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +000
Nothing Good Happens After 3 A.M.
- Abstract: Nothing Good Happens After 3 A.M.
  PubDate: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +000
The Logic of the Criminal Scientist
- Abstract: The Logic of the Criminal Scientist
  PubDate: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000
The Betrayal
- Abstract: The Betrayal
  PubDate: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000
Transitions
- Abstract: Transitions
  PubDate: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000
Colossus
- Abstract: ColosseumRome, ItalyJuly, 2016
  PubDate: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +000
To Taste (1)
- Abstract: To taste the delicacies from around the world. Oh what a dream it may be. A dream from which I have not risen. I pray I never.
  PubDate: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +000
Colours
- Abstract: Let the light leak in.
  PubDate: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +000
Stuck in Time
- Abstract: Eternally caught in the beauty of a moment.
  PubDate: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +000
evening unfold
- Abstract: The stress is gone. The memories are imminent. Let the evening unfold.
  PubDate: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +000
Gathering
- Abstract: And as I looked up, Jesus Christ and his twelve Apostles were standing before me.
  PubDate: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +000
Tranquility
- Abstract: As beauty enters the eyes, anger leaves the mind. Tranquility. Tranquility at last.
  PubDate: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +000
worlds collide
- Abstract: Beauty seeping through the cracks as two worlds collide.
  PubDate: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +000
A Day in Fall
- Abstract: This photograph features a bird sitting on a tree on the UC Merced campus during the fall 2016 semester.
  PubDate: Sun, 20 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +000
Weightless
- Abstract: A creative non-fiction piece about mental health, psychiatry, and the habits of highly effective depressed people. TW: Descriptions of Drug Use, abuse, and depressive episodes
  PubDate: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +000
Apart at the Seams
- Abstract: Personal Narrative
  PubDate: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +000
Hidden Love
- Abstract: By Randy Posada
  PubDate: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +000
If The Shoe Don't Fit, It Ain't for Wearing
- Abstract: A psychoanalysis of a deeply deranged Cinderalla from an alternative universe.
  PubDate: Sat, 5 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000
Michael Elkins and The Great Slumber
- Abstract: Explanations for the origins of the universe are not set in stone. The big bang theory remains for the most part a theory that can be debunked at any moment if sufficient evidence is uncovered. Religious explanations for the universe's origins are also highly dependent on a person's faith, which makes their views subjective. However, an objective truth to the universe's origins may have finally been discovered. Our creator, Michael Elkins is in reality a toddler who has dreamt up the world we live in. The myth presented is a memoir snatched from Michael Elkins when he was not looking. While the person who snatched it may have suffered great harm to his being and is most likely to be no longer living, he did manage to get the memoir out to the greater public. It is time this memoir gets published and for all to be informed on how the universe really came to be.
  PubDate: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000
The Blue Room
- Abstract: Backstory: I recently moved into my apartment and my roommate had some family over that day and while they were nice I felt unusual interacting with them. So, I decided to hide out in my room with my girlfriend. My girlfriend had plans so eventually she left, leaving me alone in my room with my roommates dog. I started to feel this great sense of lonliness as the sun started to set turning my room a darkening shade of blue. It was a familiar feeling, the feeling having to be alone in such an unfamiliar place like it was my first year again. I felt the need to submit this because I would often limit myself to only submitting peices that were amazing in a techincal sense. Part of me felt even felt like my art was never good enough to submit. That mindset, though, is very limiting.I hope that more people will be encouraged to show thier artwork even the ones they feel are not as amazing.
  PubDate: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000
Ghosts
- Abstract: Short story about personal experiance within loss and foster care.
  PubDate: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000
Boxes
- Abstract: Loss, life, and contemplation.
  PubDate: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000
Apple
- Abstract: A poem by Andrew Perez
  PubDate: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000
We Are More Than Who He Took Away
- Abstract: All these poems have a hint of longing for an unrequited love, with the exception of the last one. Transitions is about a love blooming from two old but not too close souls. The Difference Between Them is about the switching of the unrequited love and how the two are stuck in the cycle of never wanting one another at the same moment. The Betrayal is about the way a longing can become addictive even when one knows that the person they're longing for is no good for them. Tortured Soul is about finally getting over that person you so desperately wanted. We Are More Than Who He Took Away is a creative poem derived from the poem We Are Seven, by Wordsworth where it is my own families personal experienced on the death of another family member.
  PubDate: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000
A Culture of Two Worlds
- Abstract: A piece about the identity that I, as well as other students from my home, formed being first generation immigrants. Along with this, an analysis into why that may be, and how to combat the feelings of confusion that come with existing between two different cultures.
  PubDate: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +000
Maybe'
- Abstract: These poems came to me so quick, that I had 48 Post-Its floating around on my desk. I decided to put it on an actual document and rejoice in it's completion and white space.
  PubDate: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +000
"Where Am I"
- Abstract: A lone traveler has only their mother's writings and stories to keep them company.
  PubDate: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +000
A Letter to Myself
- Abstract: A fun short letter to myself on my writing capabilities
  PubDate: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +000
Balloon
- Abstract: A person realizes the reason to why their relationship failed.
  PubDate: Sat, 11 May 2019 00:00:00 +000
Parched
- Abstract: My tongue is dry.
  PubDate: Sat, 11 May 2019 00:00:00 +000
De Mi Mama
- Abstract: I come from hard earth and clay walls.I come from early Sunday mornings-the smell of myrrh and frankincense clouding my eyes.I come from the mango trees that did not belong to me,But still scaled up high to escape a life that was not mine.
  PubDate: Sat, 11 May 2019 00:00:00 +000
BPD
- Abstract: My therapist tells me to stop thinking in black and white.But I can’t help only seeingright or wrong
  PubDate: Sat, 11 May 2019 00:00:00 +000
Full Throttle
- Abstract: Slow down. They tell the clown but he can’t hear you. He’s almost out of gas and he’s already past the point of no return.
  PubDate: Sat, 11 May 2019 00:00:00 +000
Widow
- Abstract: And so, she walks like the awakening of light.
  PubDate: Sat, 11 May 2019 00:00:00 +000
Breathing
- Abstract: I think I am finally breathing, for many days, the earth was spinning.
  PubDate: Sat, 11 May 2019 00:00:00 +000
The Rose and The Poppy
- Abstract: I am not a rose.I am not a ravishing ruby red,or even a semblance of purity white.
  PubDate: Sat, 11 May 2019 00:00:00 +000
No Feelings
- Abstract: Feelings can change just how seasons can change.
  PubDate: Sat, 11 May 2019 00:00:00 +000
Cover Art
- Abstract: Art by Stephanie Ross.
  PubDate: Fri, 10 May 2019 00:00:00 +000
Letter by The Editor in Chief
- Abstract: The Vernal Pool is a literary journal that provides undergraduate students from the University of California, Merced the opportunity to showcase their creativity through the power of literature and art.
  PubDate: Wed, 8 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000
Under the Dim Night Sky
- Abstract: Under the Dim Night Sky
  PubDate: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +000
The Sun (XIX)
- Abstract: Block printing on a vintage music sheet. This piece depicts the artist's rendition of the tarot card, "The Sun", in the medium of a block print. This piece emphasizes femininity and self.
  PubDate: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +000
Curious Cow
- Abstract: A curious cow observed us as we studied the place it calls home. All of its friends ran in fear of the intruders, but this cow wasn’t afraid.
  PubDate: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +000
Black Water
- Abstract: A story of a dream turned into a nightmare.
  PubDate: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +000
Lonely Bird
- Abstract: "Free yet so far away from home"photo taken by Uriel E. Angelino.
  PubDate: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +000
A Ghost Story
- Abstract: This a letter written by the dearly departed letting their other half, and those close to them know they are okay and that they will be passing on.
  PubDate: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +000
Our Community Garden
- Abstract: We tend our community garden for our seedlings to sprout. Proud, high sunflowers, nurturing fruit trees.
  PubDate: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +000
Mentally Ill: Society's Kill
- Abstract: “Mental Health needs a great deal of attention.It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.”-Adam AntPoems of mental health issues with use of imagery and rythm
  PubDate: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +000
La Caperusita Roja
- Abstract: A twist on my grandmother's gruesome re-telling of Little Red Riding Hood.
  PubDate: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +000
These Children
- Abstract: The audience sits in their seats
  PubDate: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +000
Etymologies
- Abstract: Why should I bother--the words, lying ona blanket of still snowlike tree branches'
  PubDate: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +000
Where is he now'
- Abstract: My poem is about a a coup;e who split. The girl moved on faster than he did. Now he is feeling remorse.
  PubDate: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +000
BBQ Remains
- Abstract: On a sunny Sunday, only one thing can be done and that is a BBQ! A moment shared with the family and without much thought, you bond through careless laughs and good food. After the feast is over, the space filled with sizzles and giggles is now empty noise. But there in a box lies a reminder of that sunny Sunday.
  PubDate: Sat, 9 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000
Henrietta
- Abstract: It concerns my relationship to animals and how that has tied into my childhood relationships.
  PubDate: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000
Scorpion Grasses
- Abstract: Blooming like no other,
  PubDate: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000
Thoughts and Feelings
- Abstract: Sometimes...
  PubDate: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000
Snipped Love
- Abstract: A short story about the troubles of finding a soulmate.
  PubDate: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000
Miles Away
- Abstract: The experience of a young child who is about to leave his home found miles away to another country, where the culture and traditions are much different.
  PubDate: Tue, 1 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000
Consequences
- Abstract: A short tale of a lover who has learned of self-love through the grief of her broken relationship.
  PubDate: Tue, 1 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000
Single Crystal Diffraction Distraction
- Abstract: There is a possibility this illustrates electron diffraction through the (1 1 2) diagonal direction in of the tetragonal crystal structure of Bismoclite. I also think it looks neat.
  PubDate: Tue, 1 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000
A Split Second
- Abstract: Is graduation really the beginning' Kelvin discusses his attitude towards the seemingly brief experience that is high school and college commencement.
  PubDate: Tue, 1 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000
Sweet Summer Boy
- Abstract: From the moment that Columbus reached the Americas, brown people have been subject to oppression through systematic racism, microagressions and outright hostility. The rich history of the pre-Columbian peoples of this continent was almost completely eradicated by the European invaders. Brown skin came to be synonymous to poverty, filth, and unattractiveness. This is an ode to my people. A reminder that our existence is an act of resilience, that we are beautifully brown, beloved by the Sun.
  PubDate: Tue, 1 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000
Watch it go by
- Abstract: Dream
  PubDate: Tue, 1 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000
Define My Eyes
- Abstract: A collection of three seperate pieces, led by the creative non-fiction piece "Define My Eyes". The following pieces, "The Difference Between a Bastard and an Orphan" and "Psy-co-existence" are fiction works. The three pieces are their own stories and are not dependent on one another.
  PubDate: Tue, 1 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000