Monsters, myths and finding the real missing link

By Vanessa Ontiveros/El Inde Stuck in her bedroom during the pandemic, with only the internet and her imagination as companions, one university student found a way to satisfy her taste for odd adventures. She wanted a good old fashioned monster hunt. And if she had to do this digitally, then so be it. First step:…

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To be in your twenties

By Frances Leone/El Inde Two young women are navigating their 20s: a college student just beginning her twenties, her sister nearing the end of them, and their mother, who has watched the two become more independent.

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Living through the end of the world

By Monica Baricevic/El Inde While my friends and I were tucked away in a small boat town, with little to no cell service, the Covid-19 pandemic began to unravel in the States. Back when the coronavirus was just a whisper in the U.S., the University of Arizona was out for spring break. My friends and…

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The final surgery

By Meredith O’Neil/El Inde Thirty-one-year-old Scott Gooderham thought he was going to die. He had lost forty pounds and was still losing weight fast. He had been living for seven years with a disease that normally affects people much older than him.  At 24, he had been diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis, an autoimmune disease similar…

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From the Big Apple to isolation

By Elizabeth Humston/El Inde Your senior year of college is a year that you will never forget. The last memories made are usually of graduation; getting handed your diploma, throwing your cap in the air, and saying goodbye to friends who have been there for you the past four years. However, that is not how…

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