Portrait of an Internet Mean Girl - Emily Hessney Lynch
You sit alone with your hard seltzer and your phone, scrolling and scrolling. Who can you rage at today on the internet? It’s your...
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Oct 31, 20202 min read
Out & Up - Giacomo Ranieri
It was a night with wispy clouds, a long time coming. A time between days of the week. A night where good happened. I had to make it...
Oct 16, 20203 min read
Grave Clothes - Tiffany Grimes
I wear special clothes when I visit my dad. I have a routine. When I get home from school, I head to the far closet at the end of the...
Oct 14, 20203 min read
The House - Kate French
Time is dead in the shop. It sags beneath its jaunty green paint job, applied by well-meaning relatives, the placard announcing its...
Oct 3, 20202 min read
Waves of Emotion- Bethany Barton
It is hard to watch your childhood drift away. Like the waves of the ocean rolling back to the sea. The memories fade and return to their...
Sep 30, 20204 min read
At Both Ends - Lily Dolin
When I was seven years old I held my finger over an open flame for a minute and a half just to see how long I could manage. When I...
Sep 28, 20203 min read
Momtalk - Tracey Harrington
“Well, I didn’t know about all the gay stuff,” she said with a small chuckle, playing with the strings of her light green hospital...
Sep 20, 20202 min read
The Subjugation of Will - Patrick Muczczek
Mrs. Borne was sitting on the floor of their apartment waiting for her husband to return from work. In a burst of anxious contemplation,...
Sep 19, 20202 min read
Vital - Miranda Overett
Do you remember the strawberries? You said you loved the plumpness of them, the ripeness- that they made you think of spring, of...
Sep 12, 20204 min read
Tattoos Only Fade - Molly Blumhoefer
They sloshed around the dark bathroom like large animals after tranquilizer darts. Two of the walls were cinder-block, a basement corner....
Sep 10, 20204 min read
Escapism - Shawn Young
It had just happened a week ago, and she was running. Eleanor Grisby, her face etched with the lines of sixty years, sharp eyes looking...
Sep 8, 20203 min read
Sprinting Away - Teresa Pham-Carsillo
I am at my ugliest when I run, red with exertion and dripping with sweat. I have pulsing veins that appear on my forehead and sometimes,...
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