A Storytelling | Hannah Love
I look up and see a crow, a shiny and scrawny thing, swaying from the powerline above us. It tips its weight forward as if to nosedive...
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- Apr 8
- 9 min
Gifted | Elizabeth Wilson
Growing up I craved community. I was social and tried to fit in with my peer groups. At summer camp, I found short-term connections with...
- Apr 5
- 7 min
Click | Morgan Stone
My palm screams as I bash my right hand against the steering wheel, over and over. Heavy bass hammers through my car, rattling the empty...
- Apr 2
- 5 min
Contest Winner: Persimmon Kind of Love | Audrey Wu
This is the winning selection from the Sad Girl Diaries Winter 2024 Fiction & Nonfiction Contest. trigger warning: self-harm, disordered...
- Mar 30
- 2 min
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 24
- 1 min
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 21
- 13 min
What I Lost and Found in Poland | Melinda Mandelbaum Stein
“Folks, this is the captain speaking. We are beginning our descent into the Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport. Please return tray tables...
- Mar 18
- 1 min
Data | Lisie Clark
Instagram thinks I'm still pregnant strollers stretch mark creams leggings that grow as your belly expands spend your money on that which...
- Mar 15
- 12 min
How It Feels | Jordan Holman
I remember the exact moment she asked me like it was yesterday: the white button down shirt and red lipstick and the velvety texture of...
- Mar 12
- 2 min
Self-Portrait in the Time of Disaster | Federico Escobar
By noon I am done. I take the picture to her, up the stairs, past the living room, through the sleeping alligators, and she shakes her...
- Mar 9
- 1 min
Las Vegas | Lindsey Steffes
5am and the broken strap of a white dress it’s ghost pain hanging at the Tropicana chest pain in a white line with a bald dealer I was...
- Mar 6
- 1 min
Strangler | Meredith Boe
Head lolled to the side like a dog. Sweetly pollenated air on a nature walk. He picks up a feather and says, like this one? A book told...
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