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maybe in a universe lightyears away | Reeti Ramchandani
look! there’s a camera zoomed in on our hands. in the script, our hands are supposed to meet, our fingers are supposed to be interlocked....
Nov 30, 20232 min read
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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...
Nov 26, 20231 min read
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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 20, 20232 min read
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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 18, 20232 min read
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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 14, 20231 min read
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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 12, 20231 min read
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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 6, 20231 min read
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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...
Nov 4, 20232 min read
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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 30, 20231 min read
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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 26, 20231 min read
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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 22, 20231 min read
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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 20, 20231 min read
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