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My Younger Self My Wound | Izze Goldberg
After Natalie Diaz She was calling for me in the night-light-free bedroom the one she spends most of her time in. When they came to her...
Jul 8, 20242 min read


Shosholoza | Blake Harrsch
The engines. The buses. The bustle. A December Monday with students eager to be released. Above, snowflakes eager to erupt. Like candy in...
Jun 29, 20242 min read


Strawberry Acai | Sara Thompson
I take a sip of bright pink, speckled with seeds, it’s sweet taste prickling against my tongue, and I am reminded of our freckled noses....
Jun 26, 20241 min read


poem in which my body and I are toxic lovers | Selena Zhang
she wonders if I would love her were she ugly; ravished in a fire/gored by wild hounds/broken in half to protect me, I find myself unable...
Jun 23, 20241 min read


Temperance | Amanda Myrtakis
On the second and final date, I help you fold your laundry. You ask me if I’ve ever worked retail, because I’m impressively good at this,...
Jun 17, 20242 min read


Green Is My Favorite Color but Brighter Than You’d Think | Savanna Frances Grinspun
every woman wants to own a bookstore café by the beach emergency exit the market saturation of a dream in which everything is everything...
Jun 14, 20241 min read


I surely deserve it | Ursula Shepherd
A long languid breakfast pancakes with sausages blueberries dripping in honey-rich syrup oh, I surely deserve it — luscious black coffee...
Jun 5, 20241 min read


In the beginning, she was very old | Bianca Pina
She carried her mother's pain as a dolly stroking its face, whispering hush in its ear. She unclipped her purse and emptied handfuls of...
Jun 2, 20241 min read


Problem Solving | Hannah Page
As a shell-shocked shell-shaped whorl of a girl, I rock forward into your arms like falling off something, a logor a jigger filled with...
May 30, 20241 min read


Chew on that, why don’t you? | Kristen Bales
I roll your indecency on my tongue. Like a wad of gum. Something to chew on, And then spit out. But the aftertaste, Fresh and stinging as...
May 24, 20241 min read


Too Young | Lex Marie
They like to tell me I’m too young to sit with them at dinnertime I’m seventeen — grouped with kids who crack suicide jokes and laugh...
May 21, 20242 min read


The Griffin | Kara Melissa
The griffin, griffon, or gryphon is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle;...
May 15, 20243 min read
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