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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...
36 minutes ago4 min read


After | Michael Favala Goldman
The living room                                                            half-empty –             space where Daddy’s...
May 61 min read


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


The Anatomy of Suffering | Deanna Horton
Nobody knows what to do with sad people. I remember this mostly on Tuesdays When my grandmother chews her tears, mopping grief In the dry...
May 22 min read


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...
Apr 301 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....
Apr 283 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
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