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Nov 186 min read
Cornflower Blue | Valerie Anne Burns
While my mother was still alive, we’d moved to a brand-new home in one of those strangely uniformed suburbs in South Miami. Because blue...
Oct 197 min read
Wednesday Night at the Hotel in Kyoto | Jordan Holman | Fiction & Nonfiction Contest Winner - Summer 2024
On a Wednesday night at the hotel in Kyoto, an old woman approaches me in the public onsen and sings to me with sweetness in her voice. ...
Sep 274 min read
Girl Crush | Lisa W. Nagel
The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past. --William Faulkner “Science” says that your cerebral cortex, the frontal lobes of...
Sep 186 min read
Connective Tissue | Amelia Clare Wright
It’s New Year’s Eve, and I’m lying on the couch with my head on my boyfriend’s heart and my left hand fingering his lower lip. It’s firm...
Jul 234 min read
Fruitless | Judith Sara Gelt
Four days ago, I bought melons—one, a cantaloupe. A normal melon. Thick skin hard, dappled beige and grey. Once I spied a woman in...
Jul 22 min read
Instructions on Making it (Another Year) | Georgia Riordan
The time will pass anyways. You might as well enjoy it. You have to keep going. This is your choice, but wake up and choose it every...
Jun 309 min read
Contest Winner: The Work | C. Low
This is the winning selection from the 2024 Spring Fiction & Nonfiction Contest. For more information about our upcoming contests, please...
May 2714 min read
The after life | Becca Leonard
In most of my memories, he’s two-dimensional. Pressed flat. Like a character, or hologram, or specter. A smudge of mood and anger. As...
Apr 89 min read
Gifted | Elizabeth Wilson
Growing up I craved community. I was social and tried to fit in with my peer groups. At summer camp, I found short-term connections with...
Apr 25 min read
Contest Winner: Persimmon Kind of Love | Audrey Wu
This is the winning selection from the Sad Girl Diaries Winter 2024 Fiction & Nonfiction Contest. trigger warning: self-harm, disordered...
Mar 2113 min read
What I Lost and Found in Poland | Melinda Mandelbaum Stein
“Folks, this is the captain speaking. We are beginning our descent into the Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport. Please return tray tables...
Mar 1512 min read
How It Feels | Jordan Holman
I remember the exact moment she asked me like it was yesterday: the white button down shirt and red lipstick and the velvety texture of...
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