On These Nights Out To Drink Away One’s Sorrows - Carmen Corridan
You nearly spew lemon vodka but rough peels wedge your throat. You use that as an excuse for the tears when the strobe lights neon your...
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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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- 5 days ago
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Ophelia I - Lauren Genevieve Smith
Take the flowers from the ground to weave into a wedding crown. Don the finest gown you own. Wander from the house alone. Into the night...
- Sep 14
- 1 min
Everything - Molly Dickin
I didn’t realize how many feelings Were left unfelt while you were gone Until I was in your arms again Smiling into your lips and feeling...
- Sep 12
- 1 min
Waiting - Noah Reese-Clauson
I’m as sentimental as I’ve been. You’re my friend. I’m tired of waiting— For happiness. For what others take for granted. For the world...
- Sep 7
- 1 min
Rewind - Hayden Robinson
Leaves that flew away from our hands crumble in my mind like sand. Smiles and twirls of the curls in your hair turn dark and grey the...
- Sep 5
- 1 min
In Another Life - Sophia Alexeivana
The porch squeaks as I make my way outside And sneakily find my way into the nook of your neck It feels like we’re twentysomethings again...
- Sep 1
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Hands on a Hard Body - Lucy Steward
First published in Poet's Choice. Hands on a hard body, that’s what we were A tangle of broken bones, souls slowly interwoven into...
- Aug 28
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all you need is one good disaster friend - Megan Rilkoff
When the heat wave set records in Albuquerque by 6am, I sat in my closet and called my disaster friend in Chicago. She listened, murmured...
- Aug 24
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Trees are green with drought - Nick Vasquez
Dust clings to shoes pleading to be elsewhere. Still foliage in calm wind and icy water evaporate from lonely cairns of stone. Mist hazes...
- Aug 22
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Pincushion Heart - Aidan Derrico
My heart is that little red tomato On my grandmother’s side table, From which I delighted in Pulling out and pushing in Yellow-headed...
- Aug 20
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Look at This Little Life - Kait Quinn
Every day is the same. Every day sunlight and the cat's hoarse pleas spill through the crack beneath the bedroom door, pool...
- Aug 18
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Not Getting the Nobel - Lina Buividavičiūtė
Today I’m sitting in front of my psychotherapist and crying in all earnestness because I’m not getting the Nobel. Forget that – I don’t...
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