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In This Family All Parts Are Private Parts | Natalie Wang | Poetry Contest 1st Place Winner - Spring 2025
the first time i saw my parents holding hands, i was twenty-three. Â twenty-three years of bare bone arms wishing for flesh to be...
Jul 101 min read
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The Problem With Beauty Is It’s Never Enough | Caiti Quatmann | Poetry Contest 2nd Place Winner - Spring 2025
one summer, my cousin came back from college & said i had grown into a beautiful girl. i remember because i was peeling the skin off a...
Jul 82 min read
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Secrets of the World | Kristy McCoy | Poetry Contest 3rd Place Winner - Spring 2025
There have always been men who I write home to—as if they were my father. Take Russ, my boss at this one store, in this one town where I...
Jul 61 min read
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Ball Game, July 4th. | Grace Thornsbury
the children in the new stadium don’t care how famous he is as long as he signs their hats in sharpie. i want to be  the boy collecting...
Jul 41 min read
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Goodbye | Taylor M. Hallford
Hazel walks down the silent road and the fog of her breath trails behind her like a fading rope. Her shoes echo on the pavement and the...
Jul 29 min read
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As heartbreak goes | Ashley Hardin
pain sinks the bones I used to know and rises the tongues I kissed before I knew you.                                                    ...
Jun 301 min read
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From Here | Leah Scott-Kirby
My eyebrows knit together, teeth clenched, and the blood drained from my face, away from my fingertips and toes—every reserve diverted to...
Jun 284 min read
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Converge/Diverge | Allison Bothley
I am singing in a low register. Tomorrow, it will be September. The north wind is bringing fall on the back of a storm. Everything is...
Jun 2615 min read
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Messy is Just Another Word for Becoming | Meghann Dawson
I used to think becoming my best self meant achieving perfection—pristine choices, ideal timing, a life tied up in a neat little bow. I...
Jun 244 min read
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My Relationship Cookbook | Elena Yanez | Fiction & Nonfiction Contest Winner - Spring 2025
The Perfect First Boyfriend 1 Cup Cigarette Ash                                                               1 Cup Hair...
May 194 min read
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After | Michael Favala Goldman
The living room                                                            half-empty –             space where Daddy’s...
May 61 min read
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Half-Shell | Rachel Critelli
I was wading in the depths of a finance spreadsheet, when my phone rang. The sound was distant, as if I was hearing it from the bottom of...
May 411 min read
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