Originally published in Synapse on October 22, 1998. Last week, the country confronted the death of Matthew Shepard, the University of Wyoming student killed in a vicious, antigay hate crime. This ...

Were fleeting ghosts or if we should stay, I feel the weight of first love fray. I fear the feelings are bound to pass, Yet still I am, was, and stayed They seduce and they smile, they brood and they ...

Before I ever came near a stethoscope or a white coat, I understood the beauty of X-rays. The reasoning was simple, nearly elegant. If we could just take a picture of the inside, we would know what ...