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• Nonfiction > Memoir
  This is for You

  

  By Helena.of.Karatha, Saint Paul, MN

  This is for the you who was a still-not-quite-adjusted junior and the me who was a wreck of a culture-shocked freshman. This is for the way we sat in the back of the Spanish room when you were the closest thing I had to a shoulder to cry on, and for the way we stayed up on G-chat talking to crowd ou...
• Poetry > Limerick
  The Losing Streak

  

  By Helena.of.Karatha, Saint Paul, MN

  Ball four and the pitcher is seething Five walks straight and the fans are all leaving We lose every game Win no fortune, no fame But our team song is "Don't Stop Believing"...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  The Economic Development of Colombia

  

  By Helena.of.Karatha, Saint Paul, MN

  History, trade strategies, aid, and investment all play a role in a country's economic development. But how does a country really develop? By examining Colombia, this book explores the issues of causes and effects of development as well as the pros and cons of various development strategies, as...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Never-Ending Winter

  

  By Helena.of.Karatha, Saint Paul, MN

  It's ridiculous you said as the snow fell thick on April fourteenth...
• Poetry > Sonnet
  The Poetry of Macroeconomics

  

  By Helena.of.Karatha, Saint Paul, MN

  Should output lag below potential’s Y, Recessionary gap has hold of us. Concerns about inflation now draw nigh-- Inflationary gap will shake our trust. The Fed does monetary policy Manipulates the interest rates for banks All eyes are on the flow of currency Afraid of issues if the system t...
• Fiction > Sci-fi/Fantasy
  You Taught Me

  

  By Helena.of.Karatha, Saint Paul, MN

  Returning from scouting, Naeri took the passage that Garo had shown her years prior, the one that ran alongside the sewer system. As far as she knew, Rami and the others didn't know that the passage existed, though all the good assassins were acquainted with it. The passage was perpetually sile...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  Reclusive Mockingbird: A Biography of Nelle Harper Lee

  

  By Helena.of.Karatha, Saint Paul, MN

  An aspiring writer from Alabama drops out of college and moves to New York to pursue her literary dreams. The going is rough until friends give her enough money to live on for a year so that she can stop working and write full-time. What emerges has been called our "national novel" and the...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  The Faust Legend

  

  By Helena.of.Karatha, Saint Paul, MN

  The Faust story is one of temptation, the quest for knowledge, and the tragedy of human limitations. It has basis in the truth—a real man named Johann Faust who lived in Germany and was involved in dubious business—but the story strays into improbability as it involves the devil, demons, and bla...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  Renaissance Heroes

  

  By Helena.of.Karatha, Saint Paul, MN

  Renaissance heroes are different from classical tragic heroes for several reasons. First of all, classical tragic heroes operated in a completely different religious context than Renaissance heroes, necessitating differences in the heroes’ characteristics and actions as well. Even when Renaissance...
• Fiction > Sci-fi/Fantasy
  Knives

  

  By Helena.of.Karatha, Saint Paul, MN

  When I came in, Rami was standing at the board that we'd set up to function as a table. On the board was arranged a meager pile of vegetables, probably swiped from one of the stalls on Market Way, two blocks over. When Rami heard me, she stopped cutting the vegetables and whipped around, still ...
• Fiction > Sci-fi/Fantasy
  Cobbler's Lane

  

  By Helena.of.Karatha, Saint Paul, MN

  Rami and I met on the streets when we were seven. I was freshly orphaned after a raging fire devoured all of the rickety tenements along Rubbish Row; Rami's mother, her only known kin, died the same night, stabbed to death at the tavern where she danced for her meager living. No one ever found ...
• Poetry > Ballad
  Transition

  

  By Helena.of.Karatha, Saint Paul, MN

  You ripped me from my mother's womb and told me to stand You got me started walking and then you dropped my hand You took all of my toys away and yelled at me to cope You introduced me to some "friends" and told me not to mope You dragged me up and down and back and never...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  A Lull in the Conversation

  

  By Helena.of.Karatha, Saint Paul, MN

  I could say I hate you and it would make sense, in the context but it’s so far from true that I won’t even try. I could say I love you but you’d take it the wrong way-- I know you would. Two years of friendship isn’t enough to convince you to forget that I asked you to the Sadie ...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Stubborn

  

  By Helena.of.Karatha, Saint Paul, MN

  Let yourself go, dear There's no healing the stubborn Who won't admit pain...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The King is Dead

  

  By Helena.of.Karatha, Saint Paul, MN

  I heard the clattering first hail on a windowpane nails dropping onto stone as your high heels ran up the stairway and after you paused for breath you told me the king is dead. Everything froze as the world inhaled and then jumped as the earth's shoulders shook and it started to ...
• Nonfiction > Travel & Culture
  Amma

  

  By Helena.of.Karatha, Saint Paul, MN

  First there were butterfly crackers and squares of cheese at the kitchen table. Amma spoke Tamil and I didn't understand, but I knew she got out the crackers and that she cut the squares of cheddar for me. I liked adults who did this. I was four, and I liked Amma. Next there were nightgowns at Ch...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Election Night

  

  By Helena.of.Karatha, Saint Paul, MN

  For all who wondered If we're still the good and free Tonight, the answer...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  linnea in primary colors

  

  By Helena.of.Karatha, Saint Paul, MN

  i look in the mirror my eyes are blue but i see more red there my face blotchy, red and yellow the tears are clear but they paint me until i’m linnea in primary colors...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  Christopher Marlowe, Playwright Extraordinaire

  

  By Helena.of.Karatha, Saint Paul, MN

  Christopher Marlowe is one of the most renowned playwrights in British history, often considered second only to Shakespeare. His plays were revolutionary for their time, sometimes intentionally shocking their audiences with such themes as homosexuality and dissident religious views. The plays presen...
• Hot Topics > What Matters
  What Are Values?

  

  By Helena.of.Karatha, Saint Paul, MN

  Values are abstract concepts that people choose to consider important; that is, they are valuable to us. They are idealizations of behaviors and characteristics that we would, in an ideal world, like to exhibit. Values are often associated with religion, and indeed religions do have moral codes and ...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  Marriage in Sweden and in India

  

  By Helena.of.Karatha, Saint Paul, MN

  Marriage, a basic social custom practiced by practically all human societies worldwide, varies widely by culture. In some cultures, such as in India, marriages are usually arranged, partners often do not meet before marriage, and the rate of marital separation is very low. In other cultures, such as...
• Reviews > Book Reviews
  Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

  

  By Helena.of.Karatha, Saint Paul, MN

  For all you girls who swoon over British accents, you should meet Étienne St. Clair, the son of a Frenchman and an American artist, who was raised in London. And he sounds like it. A senior at the School of America in Paris, he's everything a boy should be – not just hot but kind, loyal, funny, a...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Greta

  

  By Helena.of.Karatha, Saint Paul, MN

  Personality Talent and the biggest heart You will ever find...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  The Math Majors

  

  By Helena.of.Karatha, Saint Paul, MN

  Why don’t we just get together? He’s never going to say yes. Why don’t we just— He’s going to reject me. Why don’t we just— Ugh. There he went again. I could see him in the distance, on the other end of the courtyard, hurrying to catch up with his friends. Though his...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  The Accompanist

  

  By Helena.of.Karatha, Saint Paul, MN

  Beth was a quiet girl. Thin, too—she probably weighed less than that French horn she was always lugging around. She was the sort of girl who could have faded into the background. If, that is, she weren’t so very good at everything. As it was, people with her combination of dazzling talent and pa...