Volume 49 (2024)
Dear Readers,
As my time as the Managing Editor of Ellipsis comes to a close, I want to thank you and the whole UNO Community for reading not just the issues I've been a part of creating, but all the ones before and those yet to come. Ellipsis has always and will always be the voice of UNO’s incredibly talented students, staff, and alumni, and it's been a joy to bring your words to life.
Issue 49 brought us the most submissions I've seen as Editor, which is due in no small part to the wonderful team who helped spread the word on campus and online. We saw work from previous contributors and some new names, too. The pieces in this issue follow a similar theme of environmentalism and existentialism, which seem to be on all of our minds recently. In the wise words of UNO Editor in Chief, Abram Himelstein, “As publishers, we need to make sure our pages are worth the trees it takes to print on.” I believe that the collective trees it has taken to create Ellipsis have taken on a second life, as a living document of the UNO community.
To everyone who has submitted to us in the past and has seen their words come to life in print, thank you. To everyone who has worked on the Ellipsis editorial team to bring these words to life, thank you. To all of our readers at UNO and beyond, thank you. To Abram Himelstein, for giving me this opportunity for the past three years, thank you. As I part ways with the great city of New Orleans, Ellipsis and UNO will always have a place in my heart.
Thank you,
Jax Borukhovich
Complete Issue
Creative Nonfiction
He Wrote to Me From Taipei (An Excerpt)
Sean Edgley
The Creation
T Lane Williams
Motivation From Silence
Abril Anhel Espino Gil
Poetry
Lighthouse
Abu K M Sarwar
Thi Nguyen Poetry
Thi Nguyen
Ashley Caspermeyer Poetry
Ashley Caspermeyer
Madison Bonaventure Poetry
Madison Bonaventure
Fiction
Summer Snow
Samuel L. Cooley
Lying Lights
Samuel L. Cooley
The Button to End The World
Thaddeus M. Daniels
Living Statue
Melinda N. Compton
Essay
Gender Nonbinarism: Immanent Pieces of the Subject
Kevin J. Wright
Photography
The fourth
Javalyn LeBlanc
Into The Light
Javalyn LeBlanc
Down The Bayou
Javalyn LeBlanc
In Life, Death.
Kaylie McCarthy
As Above, Even More Below.
Kaylie McCarthy
Visual Art
Wapiti Wayside
Olivia M. Bergeron
Cover Art
Koi Stamp
About the Artist:
My name is Faust! I am a digital illustrator originally from New Orleans, though my family relocated after hurricane Katrina. I came back to the city to study fine arts and do so currently with a digital focus at UNO. I want to inspire others through reaching a wider audience with my art, and to leave the world a little more fun, loving, and connected than I found it.