Sometimes I find myself Trying to put words to the sensations I feel inside myself Like when my heart is racing I put my hand Over my...

Rina immediately felt clearer and more peaceful when she picked up one of the large silver hoop earrings with a tourmaline quartz bead...

I will never love another man as much as you I know what they sing about when they sing about being weak It is weakness brought on by the...

I was 37 years old when my son left for college, creating a hole in my life. On a whim, I bought a book called Pie. Week after week, I...

You look at yourself in the mirror and you don’t recognize the face you see. You are happy. “Hey, it’s been a while”, you think. And you...

ANGEL: an essay in two distinct parts, written five years apart 1. In the summer of 2002, I saw what I believed to be my first angel. I...

TC let out a sigh, closed her laptop, and glanced from where she sat at her kitchen table over to Pear, her faceless, limbless cat-sized...

Lily knows the girl from the factory by her first name only, Rose. Rose is the only Black girl on Lily’s shift. She’s taciturn, gruff,...

Juan and me are sitting on the curb on CR 253, on account of the bus-stop shelter being full of people. I ball my exhaustion into my fist...

I have only these hands, the span of my palms in which to hold you ten fingers to cup and cradle your curves trace the lithe stretch of...

On the promenade Cherry blossom petals litter the ground, Various shades of bruised, decaying pink, Others float in the air, The new neon...

My dad lays across the denim couch, his ankles off the end of the armrest and his belt threaded but unbuckled, one forearm dangling off...