March 28th, 2023 | Eleni Polinska
For three years, I didn’t read a single book, I was too busy longing at the water’s edge, wandering alone at night, only 18, thinking I...
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- Nov 20
- 2 min
Nevertheless (wasps & cigarettes) - Taunja Thomson
One summer when I was three, you heard me laughing in the backyard, insistent laughter, that of a child who had discovered some fresh...
- Nov 18
- 2 min
I stayed home that night - Laura B. Van Vorst
working on my art homework, my papier-mâché fingers draping uneven words on soggy cardboard limbs; paste dripping on the dark wood of the...
- Nov 14
- 1 min
Revealing - Megan Griffin
When the rumors start we know we are children living in adult bodies. I wonder how girls who played with me at Chuck E. Cheese are now...
- Nov 12
- 1 min
Synonyms for Female - Jonny Shae Ransbottom
Based on a 2020 Google Search Open browser Google search Syno- Synonym Synonyms for Synonyms for female …. Women, lady, girl, school...
- Nov 6
- 1 min
Barbie Power - Margaret D. Stetz
Miss Revlon (wide eyes and tiny pouty mouth stubby body outsize head— a glamour fetus) was my doll but in my class a girl had Barbie and...
- Nov 4
- 2 min
Kilter - Julie Benesh
I. We all feel off kilter. It used to be fewer, of us, so now there is more consensus. Is that an improvement? Discuss Can we agree...
- Oct 30
- 1 min
This Is Where I Walk - Mike Cullinane
This is where I walk. In the hour of the red dawn Washing the twilight in my mind. Displaying the imperfections, The obstructions to...
- Oct 26
- 1 min
Stardust, Golden, Back to the Garden - Catherine Norris
It’s late summer and I read an article about a woman’s disdain for August and agreed, until today, when I soaked my desirous bones in the...
- Oct 22
- 1 min
Against the Current - Nancy Manning
From my student’s hawk-like talons hangs a dangling mouse that squirms to free herself before he threatens to drop her remains. Day after...
- Oct 20
- 1 min
Haunted House - Hannah Rae
I put the flame of the lighter to my wrist, skin puckering like a loved mouth, the morning sun doesn’t even do me so good. It is seven...
- Oct 18
- 2 min
Withered Dreams - Linda-Raven Woods
I have the receipt for my dad’s first guitar, a Yamaha acoustic he bought in September of 1965 which means it was the gift he gave to...
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