Rewrite The Stars
Issue VIII: The Human Experience
July 2024
Who are you? Who are we? What is our purpose on this planet? Why do we think? Why do we act? Why do we form groups? Why do we do what we do? How do we define ourselves? How do we know the things we love? What shapes our personalities? What causes our thoughts? What drives our actions? What influences our relationships? What defines our lives?
What does it mean to be human?
Psychological, biological, philosophical, or fantastical - whatever perspective you choose to go with, this is the question we wanted answered. We asked our readers to tell us in their own words and art what humanity and humaneness meant to them. We asked them to explain to us the human experience, in all its wonders and scars, beauty and flaws.
CONTRIBUTORS
POETRY
Riddhi Iyer
To be Human (Staff Contribution)
Aurora Skye
Vessel
Ezra Mukami
Untitled
Jaiden Geolingo
Here, Grief
Angela Acosta
Approximation of Latin American
Diya Kapoor
the big thing that lives in the sky
Nirmit Mittal
To Gaza
Risk
Ruth Towne
Sweets to the Sweet
Lost in Translation
Ray Shubert
Purpose
Mia Jevtic
sentenced to your love
Rah Royal
the first twelve years of my life
Liv Gamble
How To Exist
Nina Stadermann
Reverie
Muskan Gupta
Poof and Gone
Milan Singh
Blur
AC. Sandglass
Just Talk
Alexys K.
Beautiful and Human
Ruby Dyan
My Day
Wong Eu Kenn
Michelangelo's Sculpture
Sundos Hejazi
art of life/life of art
Kit Thurston-Mathews
A Kitten's Offering
Aunezti Burk
What Day Is It?
Rowan
Through the artist's lens
Nevaeh Phillips
Life doesn’t end
Chloe
we were
Urja Srivastava
an understanding of the human experience
Inaya Aly Khan
Lunacy in a Fifteen Year Old
Zoe Moon
Xoxo
Yuvika Gupta
The Life Express
Chloe Ho
Chamber Music
Maryam Majid
I don't believe in atoms (I want to touch something)
Jessamine Jin
Infinities
Cora McCullough
Is Kindness Words Or Actions?
Liv L.
Ascend
Bryan Duong Milstead
faded gleam, renewed dream
Halley Kunen
Engine Flitting
Malcolm Wernestrom
it's a dog eat dog world
Ivy J
My Eurydice Friends
W. E. Everhart
Humanity weeps
Asad R.
Unexpected Transmission
layla h.
your best girl
Rahil Najafabadi
The Correspondence
PROSE
Highway
Shannon Tran
Grief & Bliss
Unnatural Selection
E. Syson
Seventeen Years (and an Extra Few Weeks)
Birch, Law of the Wild
Aleeza Aneel
who? me?
My Angst and Me
Nusayba Bokhari
Seeds
As The Zephyr Wind Blows
Claire M.M.
A Ferryman's Fate
Crop of Prometheus
Madison Cossaboom
We Are The Fish
Da capo
sunny
Our Paths Will Cross Again, I Promise
The Man by the Pond
Arianna Kanji
to be human is to wait
The Exam
Svara Carmel Narasiah
Enough
Tenderly Yours
Phoenix Eddolls
Death's favourite mortician
"The Old Brag"
Ara Djati
When Light Refracts
Headed Towards Home
FJGCSABA
What are we defined as? How?
STRAWBERRY MILK
CREATIVE NON-FICTION
Existential Espresso
Kaitlyn Abrielle McCormick
Eden
A Letter From Ireland
Zainab Ansari
older and bigger
The Numbers Game
Clara Salo
Meaning in Platonic Forms
What's next?
Julia Vellucci
Roses and Resilience
ART
The depths within
Desi Distel
Northside gang:)
The Lake Sleeps Under the Willow
Mitra Arianfar
Lingering Touch
PHOTOGRAPHY
Invisible China
FEATURED INDIE AUTHORS
The Deadliest Wish
Sera Amoroso
The Makria Cycle-Torsion