Crisis Runs Cold - C.J. Jaye
Frosted with bitterness, sprinkled with self loathing and ruefully self-aware. Trials, falls, failures. Her righteous rage poised...
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Mar 8, 20221 min read
Home - Alexa Zinke
Mommy worked too late under the fluorescents to fight the evil black mold creeping up the wall to Baby’s nursery. She hiked the mile-high...
Mar 6, 20221 min read
Wrong Men, Poor Choices
1973 was a year of wrong men and poor choices. Harlan left her with two concurrently running STDS infections to marry an older woman....
Jan 30, 20224 min read
EMPTYING SPACES_________________________________ - Meghan Lennox
There is something about moving out that just makes me sick. It’s like being forced to dissect the contents of your vomit after an entire...
Jan 20, 20224 min read
GROWING PAINS - Christine Alexander
I wanted to be an Eva Joia Girl. They were chic, bitchy-looking, blonde brooding beauties. Blank-faced and sure, dark blue-eyed and...
Dec 23, 20213 min read
Becoming the Redwoods - Chelsea Bryant
After a hotel breakfast of coffee and bread, I’m driving moody passages through vineyards, past technicolor signs straight out of the...
Dec 7, 20212 min read
The Year We Lost So Much in the Forest Fires - K.L. Mendt
At first, we watched the delicate ash as it fell. We caught the flakes, unique as their snowy counterparts, and rubbed them between our...
Nov 27, 20212 min read
Writing Excercise - Gwen Pryor
The stuffy sweet smell of vanilla, cinnamon, and fermenting milk greets us two blocks ahead of Dave’s Ice Cream Shoppe. I peel back the...
Nov 11, 20212 min read
Late Night Texts - Katie Bockino
Sorry for ranting my best friend texts me. It’s the same phrase I sent her two nights ago. We always are sorry, apologetic for texting...
Oct 10, 20214 min read
Empty Leather - Ashley Lynn Scheffler Bhasin
My seat is taken and I stand in the doorway staring. I always sit in the same seat. I know she sees me looking at her but I don’t make...
Jul 10, 20214 min read
Super-Bear - J. Leon
In this desert town, an oasis finally appeared as a text, inviting her for a girls’ night out. Maggie read it twice to make sure it was...
Jun 25, 20214 min read
Deep - Samantha Bolf
"I thought I'd have to die to get you to visit again," your mother says. Her tone is merry, but her eyes are stiff, like stone. You...
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