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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


emotional labor (a Sunday evening) | Emma Zuder
how is it that i make clean and put away the dishes? dirty-clean laundry piles up on the creaky wooden slab, day-old groceries patient in...
May 12, 20241 min read


Rot | Caitlin Featherstone-Priester
I take a melon baller to my heart and scrape out bits of you, all rotted-under and sickish sweet and warm....
May 6, 20241 min read


Fisherman | Hannah Maiorano | 1st Place Poetry Contest Winner
I spread my hair across the ocean of your skin and cast it out upon the wide open bed. A net of brown fibres and knotted curls. The...
May 4, 20241 min read


Strolling with My Grandmother in the Center of a War | Rebecca Evans | 2nd Place Poetry Contest Winner
She warmed chicken soup all day— ready for the hungry, the empty She popped popcorn on movie days for seniors saying, I’m more able than...
May 3, 20241 min read


Incisors | Hannah Yingst | 3rd Place Poetry Contest Winner
And I’m left to wonder if your betrayal was the desperation of a starved dog or a practiced knife slipping between my shoulder blades; is...
May 2, 20241 min read


Perfecting Imperfection | Philip Lisi
The routine starts on Sunday with a tiny flake of skin, barely detectable, separating itself from the sturdier flesh just underneath the...
Apr 27, 20242 min read


The Power of the Placenta | Eloísa Pérez-Lozano
"The placenta is the least understood human organ and arguably one of the more important, not only for the health of a woman and her...
Apr 19, 20241 min read


Six Questions to Ask Your Therapist Instead of Responding to Whatever it was She Just Asked You | Hailey Spencer
1. I feel it in the calcified spaces between my ankles and my ribs, underneath the porcelain of my cheeks. Can you tell me what...
Apr 14, 20241 min read


The Gray Drawer | Mary Jo Robinson-Jamison
“You will find every day, that the gable of every house has its own particular look, its own special lighting.” Herman Hesse’s 1905...
Mar 30, 20242 min read


Check, Mate | Laura McDermott Matheric
Your mind-fuck questions demand answers without sourcing the heart’s own database, bypassing what you really want to know. Is your chess...
Mar 24, 20241 min read
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