lucid's favorite photographer, uci alum pedro nieves, does a fashion photoshoot with fellow uci students as models! along with karen and larrenz, the shoot also features poet and longtime lucid contributor cassandra; janellee, photographer for issue 4's "the sandwich chronicles"; and the one and only helen from the issue 4 graduation story, "helen's everything, everywhere, all at once". pedro's got the gift. and if you don't know, now you know.

Irvine Valley College undergraduate Samog-J Lemon reflects on a lifetime of memories that should have had her dad in them.