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As the leading creative writing journal for UC Merced undergraduate students, The Vernal Pool provides an edited expressive space for the student body to publish original work and an open, accessible venue for audiences to read, appreciate, celebrate and respond. Current issues can now be found at: https://thevernalpool.ucmerced.edu.
Volume 1, Issue 1, 2014
Articles
The Vernal Pool, Issue One
Complete issue of The Vernal Pool, Number One.
The Vernal Pool, Issue One Front Matter
Cover and Table of Contents for Issue One of The Vernal Pool.
Imagine
A series of prose poetry that will open your imagination.
The Walk on Fifth Street
"The Walk on Fifth Street" explores childhood nostalgia as a young pregnant woman reminisces in a familiar area her deceased mother used to take her to.
Cabbage Soup
A series of poems written at UC Merced.
The Pea Garden; Twilight in the Orchard; Shearing Alpacas
These are poems
Death Deprived
Prose describing a man who had a near death experience.