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Musings From The Dean, Elaine Wallace

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Fairy Tale, Divya Pandya

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The imagination of a child- one of the most fantastic things.

A Child's Curiosity, Quynh-Nhu Tran

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A curious 5-year-old girl placed a stethoscope against her chest in St. James, Jamaica on the December 2018 medical outreach trip. Even though this was my second time returning to Jamaica, I remained amazed at the fearless children not cringing and even smiling during the physical exam. I recalled a brave 10-year-old girl seeing the medical and optometry teams by herself as her father volunteered on-site. Such positive attitudes were reflected among numerous community members through their great respect and continuous gratitude towards healthcare professionals. They touched my life as I touched theirs.

A Warm Ode To Children, Sean A. Friefeld

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A poem encouraging children to embrace the world that they create every day and to live with a sense of wonder.

The Gift Of A Stranger, Angel Mauricio Marquez

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As we are taught in our physics classes, energy is neither created nor destroyed it is simply transferred. Whether that energy manifests itself as power to fuel an engine or as knowledge to fuel a life of passion and intimacies, the energy influences one in the same. I simply seek one thing out of life, that those who come into contact with my energy find themselves transformed in the subtlest of ways so that they may, in turn, inspire another so that the cycle continues on and on.

Her Son, His Mom, Hytham Rashid

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This short narrative hopes to provide a perspective on why children and parents struggle to discuss their health, often masking their shame with modesty.

A Child’S Innocence In Healthcare, Alicia L. Kilian

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A child’s innocence can be deceiving. Their beauty, laughter, and carefree nature can easily blind anyone from seeing and understanding a childs true reality. On my first pediatrics rotation as a third year medical student, I met a little girl with Ebstein’s Anomaly, a rare and serious heart condition. A condition that can present with bluish discoloration to the lips and skin due to lack of oxygen. When this little girl first walked into the examination room, her smile lit up the room and her laughter instantly made me forget why she was even there. After getting lost in her …

War And Climate Refugees In Lesvos, Greece, Zachary Burns

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My Future Patients, Peter S. Troccoli

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Across The Fence, Alex Waziry

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ARTIST ALEX WAZIRY inspired by the movie, “The BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS”. Having Jewish roots, it deeply touched the Waziry family.

Self-Reflective Journaling: A Practice For Achieving Self-Understanding And Acceptance, Overcoming Creative Resistance, And Moving Toward Ideal Self, Courtney Moses

Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection

The Critical and Creative Thinking synthesis course provided an opportunity for me to begin a process of self-transformation, using all that I had learned in the program about metacognition, reflective practice, and creativity to inspire goals for my personal growth. As part of my work in the synthesis course, I rediscovered a consistent practice of self-reflective journaling that I had abandoned some years ago and used my synthesis paper to document my process in hopes that others may learn from it and perhaps be inspired to take on a self-reflective journaling practice of their own. As my paper reveals through …

Volume 83, Issue 1: Full Issue, Manuscripts Staff

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Full issue of 2019 Manuscripts.

Back Matter, Manuscripts Staff

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Includes designer's note and contributors.

Lost Bobbies, Viki Tomanov

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Poetry by Viki Tomanov.

Take Notes, Matt Del Busto

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Prose by Matt Del Busto. Finalist in the 2019 Manuscripts Prose Contest.

When Did You Know, Camille Bates

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Art by Camille Bates.

The Patron Saint Of Girls Getting Groped, Josie Levin

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Poetry by Josie Levin. Finalist in the 2019 Manuscripts Poetry Contest.

Sketchbook 062219, Camille Bates

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Art by Camille Bates.

Interlude Of Ice Cubes, Madeleine Luccetti

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Poetry by Madeline Lucchetti.

Ameliorate, Melinda Peterson

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Photography by Melinda Peterson.

Devil's Drink, Con Murray

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Prose by Con Murray. Finalist in the 2019 Manuscripts Prose Contest. Martone Grant Recipient.

The Fool, Jared Kohn

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Poetry by Jared Kohn.

Criticize Me, If You Please, Shaun'tae Swanson

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Butler Writers is an outreach of the Butler University English Department and MFA Creative Writing program that seeks to empower and amplify the voices of high school students in the Indianapolis community by connecting them with mentors and methods for self-expression.

Since its inception in 2011, this Jefferson Award-winning initiative has generated more than 1,800 mentee-mentor contact hours annually and served more than 1,500 unique students at our IPS partner schools.

For the first time, Manuscripts is proud to present a piece from a young poet in the Butler Writer’s after-school creative writing club. Shaun'tae Swanson is a sophomore at …

Spider Legs, Courtney P. Worley

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Poetry by Courtney P. Worley.

Retrospection, Jeremy K. Gruner

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Photography by Jeremy K. Gruner.

An Interview With Lauren Groff, Matt Del Busto

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Author Lauren Groff has written multiple books, most recently Florida (2018), a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award in Fiction. Groff, who is currently a Suzanne Young Murray Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, has received numerous awards and recognitions, including her novel Fates and Furies (2015) being lauded as then-president Obama’s book of the year in 2015. During her visit to Butler, Groff sat down with Manuscripts staff member Matt Del Busto to discuss the importance of failure, the morality of the sentence, and the dynamic between the writer and the author.

Anxietyscape, Jeremy K. Gruner

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Photography by Jeremy K. Gruner.

Someone Please, Tell Me: Was This Sexual Assault?, Kareen Casillas

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Prose by Kareen Casillas.

*Author’s Note: Please take care of yourself when reading the following piece, as it may be triggering. Contains images of sexual assault.

Phonetic Shock, Shauna Sartoris

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Poetry by Shauna Sartoris. First place in the 2019 Manuscripts Poetry Contest.