Portrait of an Internet Mean Girl - Emily Hessney Lynch
You sit alone with your hard seltzer and your phone, scrolling and scrolling. Who can you rage at today on the internet? It’s your...
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- Oct 31, 2020
- 2 min
Out & Up - Giacomo Ranieri
It was a night with wispy clouds, a long time coming. A time between days of the week. A night where good happened. I had to make it...
- Oct 16, 2020
- 3 min
Grave Clothes - Tiffany Grimes
I wear special clothes when I visit my dad. I have a routine. When I get home from school, I head to the far closet at the end of the...
- Oct 14, 2020
- 3 min
The House - Kate French
Time is dead in the shop. It sags beneath its jaunty green paint job, applied by well-meaning relatives, the placard announcing its...
- Oct 3, 2020
- 2 min
Waves of Emotion- Bethany Barton
It is hard to watch your childhood drift away. Like the waves of the ocean rolling back to the sea. The memories fade and return to their...
- Sep 30, 2020
- 4 min
At Both Ends - Lily Dolin
When I was seven years old I held my finger over an open flame for a minute and a half just to see how long I could manage. When I...
- Sep 28, 2020
- 3 min
Momtalk - Tracey Harrington
“Well, I didn’t know about all the gay stuff,” she said with a small chuckle, playing with the strings of her light green hospital...
- Sep 20, 2020
- 2 min
The Subjugation of Will - Patrick Muczczek
Mrs. Borne was sitting on the floor of their apartment waiting for her husband to return from work. In a burst of anxious contemplation,...
- Sep 19, 2020
- 2 min
Vital - Miranda Overett
Do you remember the strawberries? You said you loved the plumpness of them, the ripeness- that they made you think of spring, of...
- Sep 12, 2020
- 4 min
Tattoos Only Fade - Molly Blumhoefer
They sloshed around the dark bathroom like large animals after tranquilizer darts. Two of the walls were cinder-block, a basement corner....
- Sep 10, 2020
- 4 min
Escapism - Shawn Young
It had just happened a week ago, and she was running. Eleanor Grisby, her face etched with the lines of sixty years, sharp eyes looking...
- Sep 8, 2020
- 3 min
Sprinting Away - Teresa Pham-Carsillo
I am at my ugliest when I run, red with exertion and dripping with sweat. I have pulsing veins that appear on my forehead and sometimes,...
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