babyteeth fall '24 issue 1

hey girlboys and boygirls! after a long summer, we are back to campus, freshly tanned and lotioned. the baby is coming! gird your loins and paint the baby room yellow! as a organization/corporation/ imagination, we have SO MANY epic events planned for this term. Watch out for the workshop, a Cave event, and yes, yes the rumors are true . . . ANOTHER STICKER DROP. keep us in your hearts and and our minds as we weather this autumnal storm. now open wide. we are checking if you have cavities! smooches, sofia “i am using gcal now and still miss meetings” durdag adiana “responsible jaywalker” contreras lily “lilerally awesome” akre olivia “hand full of whipped cream cheese” ho

contributors

editors: adiana conteras, sofia durdag, lily akre, olivia ho, miah francis, ava blaufuss, luke hargrave, rimona zhang, eliza farley, nicky piercerandolf, rachel bond, chloe brennan, sunniva maharjan, jordyn richter, jimena oliva, max votruba, john yu contributors: ava blaufuss, miah francis, nicky pierce-randolf, billy bratton, stewie goon, aidan johnson, elsa snowbeck, sofia durdag, olivia ho, noel wang, max votruba, julianna baldo, luke hargrave, ben mazor, zoe cheng pinto

summer.docx by sofia durdag june I call my mother on the phone. She might hear me crying into the heels of my palms.

Little bugs, red as hard cinnamon candy, crawl up my arms.

The sky is mottled and familiar, a sweaty, slept-in sheet. july The Fourth of July is a very long month.

I sit with my toes in river water, cold and churning from the mountains.

Stop therapizing me! I keep saying it, over and over. august My sister says, let me baptize you, both of us rib deep in ocean water. The sea spills out into the bay.

An ancient oath, a primal kind, dip my tangled hair under the waves, laughing. Tides kiss the narrow, rocky beach.

If it means anything, it does not change what is already true.

A Big Fish the sole of one foot cut on some muted sharplike shell tumbling in the surf watch for the big fish he jumped two feet shouted against the waves above the thrum which is not* a roar oh yeah? watch he might go again blood beads in the sand freckles needlelike against the skin upon feeling I prick subversive and entire the sand in my skin dandruff on my t-shirt sleeves water in the ear and nose all slow and dark under there, loud

*never was Olivia Ho

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Max Vortruba

Billy Bratton

Pen Names ACROSS 1 Morn 5 Moroccan city began as a kasbah 10 Boris and Elizabeth but not Rishi or Keir 14 Rebound 15 Small African deer 16 Lesser forearm bone 17 *Robert nips at your fingers 19 Early video game 20 Pro follower 21 Narrow inlets 22 Olympian Ledecky 23 *Louise shoplifts to save money 26 What gobbledygook might make 29 That, in Lima 30 Nice's state 31 Removing weaponry 36 Moral compasses, or a phonetic hint to the starred clues 40 Shower gel 41 Picard's advisor 42 Japanese folkloric demon 43 Half a kiss 46 *Nicolas lights a fire to roast you 51 Lucy's musical partner 52 Teen follower

Ben Mazor

53 NAACP founder, ___ B. Wells 56 Abhorrent 57 *Stephen slithers behind your back 60 Something "of the rock" 61 Beginning of a brag 62 Rapper: ___ Mill 63 Apt last name for Patrick 64 Sows 65 Homes

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DOWN 1 Adept 2 Field measure 3 Grammatically confusing pronoun 4 Bad news often 5 Red-bellied Aves 6 French rocket 7 Another word for an itsy spider 8 Shinzo ___ 9 Jolly contraction 10 He had a Notorious beef 11 A sinning animal 12 Musical orphan 13 Fires up 18 Anabolic steroid abbr.

22 Bouillon brand 23 Heartbreaking Tom 24 Await 25 Eyewitness 26 Beginner, to a gamer 27 Other: sp.

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31 Where a wildcat might be a student in Durham 32 Big name in fruit snacks 33 Concerning 34 Oscar winner, Haing ____ 35 What being fly might be like, in a "Far East Movement" hit 37 Furry friends from Endor 38 Undertale antagonist 39 "Clueless" catch phrase 43 Network connectivity stutter 44 Medical word for vomiting

45 Sea bird 46 Is towed by a dog 47 NBA rotation 48 Inner self, per Jung 49 Longest item in a pencil case 50 Actor Reddick 53 Big box store?

54 Accomplishmen t 55 Quizzes 57 Takes down for the count 58 Chemistry suffix 59 Jazz (up), as a crowd

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