A decade to press delete - Madhu Arora
There is a number saved in my phone contacts, under the name “My Life”. I first saved it over a decade ago and have carefully copied it...
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- Nov 6, 2022
- 5 min
Starry Night - Wendy Chen
Without knowing why, I love to seek answers from the sky as if there’s someone up there, who listens. The summer is usually hot but not...
- Oct 23, 2022
- 4 min
Senior Portraits - Terah Van Dusen
In my senior portraits I am wearing brown and green cigarette pants and a pea-colored spaghetti strap shirt. Most likely I looked like...
- Oct 11, 2022
- 4 min
Requiem for a Law - Katie DeBonville
Roe v. Wade and I were born two weeks apart in January 1973. We both came into the world in the middle of storms: mine was a blizzard and...
- Aug 30, 2022
- 5 min
PANDEMICAL PERSPECTIVE - Maddalena Beltrami
PANDEMICAL PERSPECTIVE The pandemic has changed life for so many people in so little time. New relationships have been forged out of...
- Aug 24, 2022
- 11 min
Ms. M - Kayla Branstetter
“Just remember, you’re not alone,” Ms. M said as she cradled the eighteen-year-old college freshman girl, looking past the watery wells...
- Aug 12, 2022
- 8 min
Cigarette Smoke. - Phoebe Robertson
When cigarette smoke enters your mouth the lining in your nose and esophagus will almost immediately become red and irritated. This is...
- Aug 11, 2022
- 13 min
1st Place Short Story Contest: Finding You - Emma Zimmerman
Helping Survivors is an online-only organization working remotely providing resources for individuals who have experienced sexual assault...
- Aug 9, 2022
- 4 min
About Saying No - Corinne O’Shaughnessy
I turn 60 and think, Shit, if I want learn Spanish someday, I better get crackin’. So I move to Oaxaca and enroll in language school, but...
- Aug 6, 2022
- 8 min
Is Putin Still the Only Choice? - Judy Richardson
I remember when, on November 18 of 1956, Kruschev declared, “We will bury you!”. (What he actually said was, "My vas pokhoronim,” which...
- Aug 3, 2022
- 10 min
Short-Lived Love - Constantina Safiliou Rothschild
I didn’t care how badly he spoke Greek. John was strikingly handsome. Beautiful dark brown eyes, a well-proportionated body, and dashing...
- Jul 28, 2022
- 2 min
The Kind of Morning Where - Dartinia Hull
It’s been the kind of morning where: You know you mopped the kitchen floor last night but it’s sticky this morning, so you mop again. You...
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