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My Sister’s Life Sinks on the Day of the Titanic’s Anniversary | Cynthia Pratt | 3rd Place Poetry Contest Winner
The hue of her wooden frame turned cerulean after her husband left. Blue now covers the heart’s jagged rock limbs. She becomes a skiff...
Aug 15, 20241 min read


My Girlfriend and I Come From a Small Town | Bellamy Rump
A sigh creates St. Helens’ ash swallowing weeks old milk and grandpa’s leather recliner into the heart of a midwest false-spring...
Aug 4, 20241 min read


Cleolynne | Lee Varon
You were God’s messenger—ethereal creation, the first lesbian I knew besides Shelly Guy, who had a butterfly tattooed on her wrist at a...
Aug 1, 20241 min read


Signs of Leaving, Spider Cracks | Madeline Muschalik
On days when I get sick of applications and working dead-end jobs I run to the lake. On my way along the hills that chart my course...
Jul 29, 20243 min read


Fruitless | Judith Sara Gelt
Four days ago, I bought melons—one, a cantaloupe. A normal melon. Thick skin hard, dappled beige and grey. Once I spied a woman in...
Jul 23, 20244 min read


Mother Mirror | Kenna DeValor
A Written-In-Five-Minutes Flash Prose; A Protagonist Stuck in A Moment I always take forever to get ready. I force the itchy fabric of...
Jul 20, 20242 min read


The Girl Who Pitied Herself | Margaret D. Stetz
into her hair thick white library paste smeared into her face daddy long-legs shaken into her fist snot-coated tissues shoved and...
Jul 17, 20241 min read


Shine | Melisa Gregorio
The first time you almost died, you were barely two years old. I was supposed to be taking care of you, but I had crept into the kitchen...
Jul 14, 20247 min read


Persistence of Memory | Helen Raica-Klotz
Once my mother told me she wasn’t my mother, not really. “Oh,” she said, “I gave birth to you, but –” and here she waved her hand...
Jul 11, 20242 min read


My Younger Self My Wound | Izze Goldberg
After Natalie Diaz She was calling for me in the night-light-free bedroom the one she spends most of her time in. When they came to her...
Jul 8, 20242 min read


The Confession | Gretchen Corsillo
She picked at the green plastic straw, then drew it halfway up out of her drink, focusing on the white coating of whipped cream that...
Jul 5, 20242 min read


Instructions on Making it (Another Year) | Georgia Riordan
The time will pass anyways. You might as well enjoy it. You have to keep going. This is your choice, but wake up and choose it every...
Jul 2, 20242 min read
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