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The Indicator x The Student

The Indicator x The Student: “How I Want To Die”

The Indicator x The Student: “How I Want To Die”

Published in the Fall 2025 issue of The Indicator, “How I Want To Die” by Aidan Cooper ’26 writes about how asparagus season evolves into a meditation on mystery, ripeness, and time. Accompanied by artwork by Ana Martinez ’29, Cooper conveys the importance of living within the moment.

The Indicator x The Student: “Three’s a Crowd”

The Indicator x The Student: “Three’s a Crowd”

“Three’s a Crowd” by Mike Rosenthal ’27 follows a weary bartender through one long shift, where a routine card game and a stranger’s drink order turn into something far more sinister. From the Fall 2025 issue of The Indicator, this story uses sharp dialogue to blend neon-lit noir with dark humor.

The Indicator x The Student: “Five by Five”

The Indicator x The Student: “Five by Five”

In his prose piece, “Five by Five,” Aidan Cahill ’28 explores themes of power, fear, and change through a narrator trapped in a five-foot square. Published in The Indicator’s 2025 fall issue, Cahill blends intimate emotion with expansive sci-fi world-building.

The Indicator x The Student: “to live, to bleed”

The Indicator x The Student: “to live, to bleed”

From The Indicator’s fall 2025 issue, Willow Delp ’26 explores themes of sacrifice and life versus death in “to live, to bleed,” a piece that depicts an unsettling and gory ritual between two girls.

The Indicator x The Student: “Ode on a Warm Sea”

The Indicator x The Student: “Ode on a Warm Sea”

Editor-in-Chief of The Indicator Venumi Gamage ’26, in “Ode on a Warm Sea,” traces how love, memory, and loss flow into one another across multiple settings. Originally published in the Spring 2025 issue of The Indicator.

The Indicator x The Student: “The Calf on the Open Field”

The Indicator x The Student: “The Calf on the Open Field”

Originally published in The Indicator’s Spring 2025 issue, Managing Arts & Living Editor Mila Massaki Gomes ’27 reflects on the cycles of nature and grief in a haunting meditation on an “evergreen” love that cannot change, following a journey from late-summer longing to the slow thaw of acceptance.

The Indicator x The Student: “AT THE CORNER OF ‘AMERICA’”

Originally published in The Indicator’s Spring 2024 issue, Contributing Writer Ryogo Katahira ’27 takes on themes of purpose and identity, as well as the search for meaning in “THE CORNER OF ’AMERICA’.”