Virtual Island Hallow-Zine 2020

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Virtual Island Zine



The island is virtual. The voices are real.

Place, Space, Voice.

Menlo College student generated content with other writers.

The Virtual Island is an outgrowth of Linda Bakke's Literature of Hawai'i and the Pacific course at Menlo College, Atherton, California.

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