A Common Thread is a student-run literary journal located at Valparaiso University in Indiana. Each issue features poetry, fiction and flash fiction, art, photography and comics, drama and screenplays, and creative nonfiction and flash creative nonfiction, all on a single theme. The theme for Issue #2 is “Scars.”
Submissions are closed at this time.
Current Volume: Volume 2 (2014) Scars
Short Stories
A History of the Glasses
Abigail Accettura
His Final Secret
Alyssa Kauffman
Scattered Memories
Wayne Rapp
That Critical Absence
Mark Eddy Smith
Poetry
Vermont Without Delilah
Ann Cefola
Touchstone
Victoria Horn
[Those gatherings of blood beneath your skin]
Nathaniel Hansen
The House…
Alyssa Kauffman
Self-Mutilators
Laura Madeline Wiseman
Nature vs Nurture
Daniel Loftus
Morning, Barely Light
Louisa Howerow
Seeking Lifelines
Nicole Montgomery
As we made love, our scars met
Tom C. Hunley
On Heartache and Hands
Nicole Montgomery
A Woman Walks the Edge
Louisa Howerow
Can you run like the wind?
Marilyn Windau
Blue Dreams
Daniel Loftus
After Augustine: Confession VIII
David Wright
The Camel & Cain: A Photo Essay
Shahé Mankerian
Remarking on the Scar
Brett Foster
Treatise on the Skin
Brett Foster
With Respect to Water
Brett Foster
Creative Nonfiction
Light Blue
Abigail Accettura
Watching the Slideshow
Justine Johnson
One Day at a Time
Morgan Stepnoski
Art
Tom and Le Sully
Shubha Bala
Editorial Board
- Nadia Atassi
- Anna Hayden-Roy
- Heather Mende
- Mychal Brim
- Katja Krasnovsky
- Kim Schafhauser
- Makenna Cannon
- Sterling Long
- Marci Stavig
- Jacob Cross
- Chad Marks
- Aislynn Wallace
- Michele Fredlake
- Stacy McKeigue
- Samantha Wilgus
- Faculty Advisor
- Marci Johnson
