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1st Place Short Story Contest: Finding You - Emma Zimmerman
Helping Survivors is an online-only organization working remotely providing resources for individuals who have experienced sexual assault...
Aug 11, 202213 min read


About Saying No - Corinne O’Shaughnessy
I turn 60 and think, Shit, if I want learn Spanish someday, I better get crackin’. So I move to Oaxaca and enroll in language school, but...
Aug 9, 20224 min read


Is Putin Still the Only Choice? - Judy Richardson
I remember when, on November 18 of 1956, Kruschev declared, “We will bury you!”. (What he actually said was, "My vas pokhoronim,” which...
Aug 6, 20228 min read


Short-Lived Love - Constantina Safiliou Rothschild
I didn’t care how badly he spoke Greek. John was strikingly handsome. Beautiful dark brown eyes, a well-proportionated body, and dashing...
Aug 3, 202210 min read


Alyson Hays - Sunset
My heart strong Beats with life Each day fades With a dying sunset Burning away The waning glow Stops me in my place I wonder why When my...
Jul 31, 20221 min read


The Kind of Morning Where - Dartinia Hull
It’s been the kind of morning where: You know you mopped the kitchen floor last night but it’s sticky this morning, so you mop again. You...
Jul 28, 20222 min read


2nd Place Poety Winner: The Nice Man - Rabia Kapoor
He seems nice, The man performing cunnilingus On the beautiful, supine woman Who throws her head back because she must And closes her...
Jul 27, 20222 min read


3rd Place Poetry Winner: Toddler on Fire - MARK HAMMERSCHICK
I will not kiss your commie flag a sickly sickle and rusted hammer stuck in the mud hollow scythe dulled with Ukie blood when the steppes...
Jul 27, 20222 min read


1st Place Poetry Winner: magnum opus - Qiqing Goh
the families on tv screens will have you all believe like some gimmicky advertisement from the sixties that all mothers want their...
Jul 27, 20222 min read


I Have to Search for My Aunt's Face - Karen Mandell
in the photos bundled in the back of the drawer. My mother's heart shaped face with wideset eyes leaps out at me in her group of...
Jul 25, 20221 min read


Dolores Unstrung - Sophia Sorrentino
It’s Tuesday night, and I’m alone at the bar. I always come alone. It’s the perfect place to people watch: college kids playing dress-up...
Jul 22, 20224 min read


Leaning into Spring - Jessica Shepherd
Here in south-central Alaska, winter seemed to drag on and on. Deep cold hung with us into March, snow fell almost daily from December...
Jul 19, 20227 min read
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