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After | Michael Favala Goldman
The living room                                                            half-empty –             space where Daddy’s...
May 61 min read


The Anatomy of Suffering | Deanna Horton
Nobody knows what to do with sad people. I remember this mostly on Tuesdays When my grandmother chews her tears, mopping grief In the dry...
May 22 min read


Laser Hair Removal At the End of the World | Sarah Chin
I take comfort in knowing that if the world ended right now, in this very moment, my legs would be bare. There is some value in that, I...
Apr 301 min read


Self-Harm | Margaret D. Stetz
scars encircling her wrist form a bracelet or a handcuff dark shapes like ash dropped randomly from a volcano scattered over legs and...
Apr 191 min read


syconium | Amanda Nicole Corbin | Poetry Contest 1st Place Winner - Winter 2025
on more than one occasion, i make my mother cry. drunk at twenty-six, i do not tell her whether she is more garden or greenhouse, but i...
Apr 51 min read


For Our Next Date | Hillary Smith-Maddern | Poetry Contest 2nd Place Winner - Winter 2025
I packed a book of poems for us to read aloud in bed.    I want to hear your voice embrace syllables intended to metaphor the...
Apr 51 min read


I Want Out of This Body | Sonya Cheney | Poetry Contest 3rd Place Winner - Winter 2025
dust particles float through the air in a stream of light across the bedroom floor landing like soft kisses on skin (my wretched skin)...
Apr 51 min read


Suffocating Relief | Lila Ahitov
Our shoes are different sizes Toes curling to fit in the space Aching pain bites– Oh, to be included Piano lessons since birth But a...
Mar 241 min read


disconnection | Selina Zha
just a forlorn gaze at my missing self reminds me of our boudoir, once we hermit crabs’ shell. I imagine myself growing from the dry...
Mar 221 min read


For N. | Anna Marie Hamilton
Three communists at a table Discuss the future of planet Earth. Your family back in Vietnam Are struggling, the rice is drowning, No...
Mar 181 min read


Between Two Drums | Cherry Harvard
My mother’s voice, a hymn of Haiti, Resonates in the rhythm of discipline, Each note a commandment, Each beat a boundary.  I dance...
Mar 141 min read


The things that ruined my prom night | Brianna Corona
1.    Pine needles sprinkled down like confetti. 2.                                  -prom closed with reflective confetti. 3.    ...
Mar 121 min read
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