EMPTYING SPACES_________________________________ - Meghan Lennox
There is something about moving out that just makes me sick. It’s like being forced to dissect the contents of your vomit after an entire...
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Sad Girl Diaries
"Most people get butterflies in their stomachs. Mine were always more like wasps."
Excerpt from Summer Marmalade by Ariana Tucker
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- Jan 20, 2022
- 4 min
GROWING PAINS - Christine Alexander
I wanted to be an Eva Joia Girl. They were chic, bitchy-looking, blonde brooding beauties. Blank-faced and sure, dark blue-eyed and...
- Dec 23, 2021
- 3 min
Becoming the Redwoods - Chelsea Bryant
After a hotel breakfast of coffee and bread, I’m driving moody passages through vineyards, past technicolor signs straight out of the...
- Dec 7, 2021
- 2 min
The Year We Lost So Much in the Forest Fires - K.L. Mendt
At first, we watched the delicate ash as it fell. We caught the flakes, unique as their snowy counterparts, and rubbed them between our...
- Nov 27, 2021
- 2 min
Writing Excercise - Gwen Pryor
The stuffy sweet smell of vanilla, cinnamon, and fermenting milk greets us two blocks ahead of Dave’s Ice Cream Shoppe. I peel back the...
- Nov 11, 2021
- 2 min
Late Night Texts - Katie Bockino
Sorry for ranting my best friend texts me. It’s the same phrase I sent her two nights ago. We always are sorry, apologetic for texting...
- Oct 10, 2021
- 4 min
Empty Leather - Ashley Lynn Scheffler Bhasin
My seat is taken and I stand in the doorway staring. I always sit in the same seat. I know she sees me looking at her but I don’t make...
- Jul 10, 2021
- 4 min
Super-Bear - J. Leon
In this desert town, an oasis finally appeared as a text, inviting her for a girls’ night out. Maggie read it twice to make sure it was...
- Jun 25, 2021
- 4 min
Deep - Samantha Bolf
"I thought I'd have to die to get you to visit again," your mother says. Her tone is merry, but her eyes are stiff, like stone. You...
- May 13, 2021
- 4 min
Light the Blue Lantern - Michelle Cristiani
My grandfather was known as a straight shooter - even with me, his only granddaughter. He taught me venison was Santa's reindeer;...
- May 6, 2021
- 3 min
Burnout - Hannah Fowler
Melody sat under the single lightbulb in her garage, edged between the space heater and the last pumpkin left in the bin at Trader Joes....
- May 5, 2021
- 4 min
LOSS IS A DESERT - S M Van de Kamp
The afternoon was scalding and inhospitable. The man and the woman walked slowly down the sidewalk. They walked in silence, looking...
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