English Major and Pre-Med: Reconciling Medicine and Literature through Stories By: Stephanie Koo LRR, March 7, 2017February 8, 2025 It’s a normal day at the hospital. I, a valued member of the Emergency Department translational research team, approach a patient to enroll them in one of our studies (read: extremely socially awkward girl, wearing scrubs too big for her, bothers sick and crying kids and their sleep-deprived parents, to… Continue Reading
On (Not) Writing While Traveling By: Stephanie Koo LRR, February 15, 2017February 8, 2025 Would it be blasphemous to suggest that I didn’t have the time of my life while I was abroad? I should have expected to feel this way, in all honesty. At the time, the opportunity that I had received felt like a once in a lifetime adventure. When else was… Continue Reading
Lights in the Night By Stephanie Mei Koo (2015) LRR, June 16, 2015June 16, 2017 Jennie Hackman Memorial Award for Short Fiction, Second Place (2015) Her bedroom lights haven’t been off for twenty-four years. Oh, it is silly, isn’t it — to be scared of the dark? Yet here she is, shivering in her nightgown, far too tired to go to sleep. She likes to… Continue Reading