Hands on a Hard Body - Lucy Steward
First published in Poet's Choice. Hands on a hard body, that’s what we were A tangle of broken bones, souls slowly interwoven into...
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- Aug 30
- 2 min
Asbury Park - Marisa Cimbal
To A.F. and C.F. Walking on the beach in Asbury Park, the waves creeping up my calves, the sun peeking out behind the clouds, I saw...
- Aug 28
- 1 min
all you need is one good disaster friend - Megan Rilkoff
When the heat wave set records in Albuquerque by 6am, I sat in my closet and called my disaster friend in Chicago. She listened, murmured...
- Aug 26
- 4 min
The Evolution of Depression - Gretchen Corsillo
It’s nearly 11:30pm, and you’re driving alone on the highway, singing along to Pearl Jam in your best (unintentional) Eddie Vedder voice....
- Aug 24
- 1 min
Trees are green with drought - Nick Vasquez
Dust clings to shoes pleading to be elsewhere. Still foliage in calm wind and icy water evaporate from lonely cairns of stone. Mist hazes...
- Aug 22
- 1 min
Pincushion Heart - Aidan Derrico
My heart is that little red tomato On my grandmother’s side table, From which I delighted in Pulling out and pushing in Yellow-headed...
- Aug 20
- 1 min
Look at This Little Life - Kait Quinn
Every day is the same. Every day sunlight and the cat's hoarse pleas spill through the crack beneath the bedroom door, pool...
- Aug 18
- 1 min
Not Getting the Nobel - Lina Buividavičiūtė
Today I’m sitting in front of my psychotherapist and crying in all earnestness because I’m not getting the Nobel. Forget that – I don’t...
- Aug 16
- 10 min
She - Ana Neu
Note: This short story was inspired by Ana' Neu's original poem, "A big word for a woman," published on Sad Girl Diaries on 8/14/23 Click...
- Aug 14
- 1 min
A big word for a woman - Ana Neu
My love doesn’t speak, She’s quiet with the door open. And breathes when it's not. My love waits for me, Like the cross on Sunday’s. A...
- Aug 12
- 2 min
The Greenhouse - Stephanie Evans
Nestled between the pool-shaped hole in the garden and quieted aviary, the greenhouse glistened in the rubble. A murky film climbed the...
- Aug 10
- 1 min
A Goodbye Letter - Kiara Nicole Letcher
I wield stories in my body like so many knives on a butcher’s block I am chilly and distant but also lush and abundant mercurial...
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