Welcome to /Slash/ We are /Slash/ the Literature and Creative Writing committee at your local UCG. Q: What do we do? A: Well… we write! Q: What do we write? A: Whatever our hearts desire ;D /Slash/ writes Poetry, song lyrics, and Short stories as well as Articles, Opinion essays, Movie and Book Reviews. We also discuss and talk about Literature. Books that make us forget where we are, Poems that make us cry, and Songs that make us kiss random people at the club. If you are interested in writing, finding other people who like to write and maybe even getting your own works published then /Slash/ is the space for you. We would love to welcome you into our worlds and into our hearts <3. How to get Started? Do you want to get something you wrote PUBLISHED???? Well, that’s fantastic!!! There are multiple ways to do that. First, you can always ask a /Slash/ Member and send your work to them for them to get it published on our Instagram and on the mythical, mysterious, and magic...
Incendies by Sofia “Un plus un ça fait deux, ça peu pas faire un.” In this world, one is judged on the number of fires they start, but they can also be judged on the number of fires they end, including their own. When we are born we are fires, let loose in the world, we can be taught to hate and we can be taught to love. We do not choose to be fires and yet we can be and are nonetheless. The world surrounding us can fuel that fire and at some point, it is up to us to put it out. The question is, how does one put out their own fire when they are surrounded by other fires? How do we break a chain of hatred and war when all we've been taught is hatred and war? We search, we discover, we keep moving, even if that means we'll create more fires because there's no use in burning forever in the same place if there is a chance out there to change. We must recognize the fire that has been ignited in us and recognize how damaging and disruptive it is. And how, although it is no...