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Laser Hair Removal At the End of the World | Sarah Chin
I take comfort in knowing that if the world ended right now, in this very moment, my legs would be bare. There is some value in that, I...
3 hours ago1 min read


Oldest Friends | V.J. Hamilton
Imogen stands at the entrance to Blythewood Cemetery, a canvas tote of books looped over her shoulder causing a crick in her back....
2 days ago3 min read


Self-Harm | Margaret D. Stetz
scars encircling her wrist form a bracelet or a handcuff dark shapes like ash dropped randomly from a volcano scattered over legs and...
Apr 191 min read


My Couch Ate Me | Mariah Sturdivant
It wasn’t painful, there were no teeth, no pain, just pure darkness.  As I began descending, the sensation felt like an unexpected and...
Apr 178 min read


Henry’s Dilemma | Dina Sokal
A thin layer of snow glistened on the tree branches in the morning sun. Henry glanced at the snow but focused inwards, his thoughts on...
Apr 1512 min read


syconium | Amanda Nicole Corbin | Poetry Contest 1st Place Winner - Winter 2025
on more than one occasion, i make my mother cry. drunk at twenty-six, i do not tell her whether she is more garden or greenhouse, but i...
Apr 51 min read


For Our Next Date | Hillary Smith-Maddern | Poetry Contest 2nd Place Winner - Winter 2025
I packed a book of poems for us to read aloud in bed.    I want to hear your voice embrace syllables intended to metaphor the...
Apr 51 min read


I Want Out of This Body | Sonya Cheney | Poetry Contest 3rd Place Winner - Winter 2025
dust particles float through the air in a stream of light across the bedroom floor landing like soft kisses on skin (my wretched skin)...
Apr 51 min read


Anaphora of Your Reading Habits | Elly Katz
I know you read this poem late, before you leave the hedge fund of the singular pulsing lamp-mark & the dusking window in the exhaustion...
Mar 282 min read


Clair de Lune | Roberta Beary
In the sweltering heat of midsummer, in New York City’s most outer borough, 14 year-old Clair stands alone at the bus stop. She’s wearing...
Mar 263 min read


Suffocating Relief | Lila Ahitov
Our shoes are different sizes Toes curling to fit in the space Aching pain bites– Oh, to be included Piano lessons since birth But a...
Mar 241 min read


disconnection | Selina Zha
just a forlorn gaze at my missing self reminds me of our boudoir, once we hermit crabs’ shell. I imagine myself growing from the dry...
Mar 221 min read
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