As the leading creative writing journal for UC Merced undergraduate students, The Vernal Pool provides an edited expressive space for the student body to publish original work and an open, accessible venue for audiences to read, appreciate, celebrate and respond.
Phillip Garcia, "Tranquility"
Current Issue, Volume 6, Issue 1, 2019
The Vernal Pool
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.
Articles
Letter from the Editor
Rodriguez, Daniel
Creative Non-Fiction
A Letter to Myself
Escobar, Austin John
Boxes
Garcia Barrera, Karla
Ghosts
Garcia Barrera, Karla
Weightless
Nguyen-Cruz, Maria Alexa
Apart at the Seams
Wallen, Alexandria Nicole
A Culture of Two Worlds
Vadodkar, Anooj
Fiction
A Ghost Story
Alvarado Olvera, Ulyses
La Caperusita Roja
Bustamante, Karen
"Where Am I"
Chang, Tiffany Ching-Han
If The Shoe Don't Fit, It Ain't for Wearing
Enwright, Adrian
Michael Elkins and The Great Slumber
Gonzalez, Omar
Nothing Good Happens After 3 A.M.
Quintanilla, Esther
Poetry
The Betrayal
Cantero, Alina
Transitions
Cantero, Alina
We Are More Than Who He Took Away
Cantero, Alina
The Logic of the Criminal Scientist
Chapman, Jessica
Apple
Perez, Andrew
Maybe?
Pham, Vivian Quynh
Hidden Love
Posada, Randy
Visual Art
The Blue Room
Ciau, Daniel
A Day in Fall
Duenas, Maria D.
Colossus
Garcia, Philip John
Colours
Garcia, Philip John
evening unfold
Garcia, Philip John
Gathering
Garcia, Philip John
Stuck in Time
Garcia, Philip John
To Taste (1)
Garcia, Philip John
To Taste (2)
Garcia, Philip
To Taste (3)
Garcia, Philip
Tranquility
Garcia, Philip John
worlds collide
Garcia, Philip John
Eye of the Beholder
Quintanilla, Esther
Abe
Quintanilla, Esther
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