Letter from the Editor Letter from the Editor

Dear reader,

With my presidency coming to an end, I am beyond excited to finish the year by commemorating the sixth volume of SNAPS! Bringing this publication back last semester was a full circle moment for me, and we wanted to continue revitalizing this publication by introducing a theme.

We picked the theme, “The Aftermath,” for its subjectivity: you can go one thousand directions and speak on the good, the bad, the past, and the future. As a graduating student this year, as well as leaving The Coterie, what has happened and what comes next because of it has been everpresent in my mind. The writers in this volume have used beautiful imagery, spoke through prose, and reflected on love, loss, and memory to imbue us with the consequences and rewards in life. Please be warned that there are some poems with potentially triggering material.

With that, I want to thank my amazing team for assisting me in putting the sixth volume together; I can’t wait to see what they do next year. I also want to thank the writing community at Western University for embracing SNAPS with us, and all of the poets for their trust to publish these works. I hope you enjoy the sixth volume of SNAPS. Happy reading!

Destiny Hopkins Editor-in-Chief

Abigail Scott

Ameena Abid

Jonas Bahn

Jiya Bajaj

Katherine Walker

nine hundred and ninety-nine deaths

By Adam Bento

Overdosing

By Claudia Kindrachuk

Alive and Beyond

By Siddharth Maheshwari

Amphibious Daughter

By Isabelle Siebert

Twining Tendrils

By Kiersten Fay