Letter From the Editor

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Headline: 19 going on OLD Sub-headline: Reflections from a (former) teen on the monstrosity that is “growing up” By: Janna Abbas 1-800-SEND HELP!!! I’ve realized that I am, in fact, turning 20 very shortly. I was under the impression that I could keep on living in my sweet delusion that I’ll be a teenager forever. Quaran-TEEN No, I will not be discussing the fact that my last two years of being a teenager were spent in quarantine. Golden 20s Turning 20 has given me a new appreciation for The Great Gatsby. I am Gatsby, and my green light is a world in which I was allowed to remain a teenager forever, dammit! What the hell is NA?! I’ve just been informed that I’m no longer the target demographic of young adult fiction?!? Apparently, I’m a “new adult” now. I am now deeply afraid to reread my favorite YA books. What if I no longer like them? What if I no longer see myself in them? Forever 16 On an even more disturbing note, I’m now one year away from being the target demographic of Forever 21… “Cause all the music you loved at sixteen, you’ll grow out of” Well, Lorde, it’s been almost four years and all of your music has yet to leave my monthly playlists, so where do we go from here?! I should’ve… What do you mean Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, and Charlie D’Amelio are all younger than me and already more successful than I’ll ever be?? Brb, gotta go ponder where I would be if I’d made a TikTok dance video last year.

19 going on OLD

Janna Abbas
Photo of a counter covered with kitchen utensils and ingredients

A History of Cake & Me

Maddie Corradi
A colourful array of baking supplies, including a bowl, mixer, and spatula.

How to Be a Functional Human Being in Society

Kieran Guimond

Essays

Illustration of birthday cake with Happy Birthday message as cake design with candles shaped in numbers that indicate various ages

Cake through the ages

Abstract illustration of models in fashionable dresses that look like cakes

To be a slice of funfetti cake

Rows of cakes and other baked goods

Reflections from decades of serving Toronto as bakers

A mass of peaches over a black background

Caked up

Illustration of spread of delicious baked good across a table

Food as Love

Poetry

Artistic depiction of layered cake balanced on buttocks of person

Dessert

Rion Levy
Illustration of well-dressed masculine figure about to eat several courses of sweets on a table

The Bakery Thief

Milo Zhu
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Marie

Anna Sokolova

Covers

Artwork | Seavey van Walsum

 

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