I stayed home that night - Laura B. Van Vorst
working on my art homework, my papier-mâché fingers draping uneven words on soggy cardboard limbs; paste dripping on the dark wood of the...
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Nov 14, 20231 min read
Revealing - Megan Griffin
When the rumors start we know we are children living in adult bodies. I wonder how girls who played with me at Chuck E. Cheese are now...
Nov 12, 20231 min read
Synonyms for Female - Jonny Shae Ransbottom
Based on a 2020 Google Search Open browser Google search Syno- Synonym Synonyms for Synonyms for female …. Women, lady, girl, school...
Nov 6, 20231 min read
Barbie Power - Margaret D. Stetz
Miss Revlon (wide eyes and tiny pouty mouth stubby body outsize head— a glamour fetus) was my doll but in my class a girl had Barbie and...
Nov 4, 20232 min read
Kilter - Julie Benesh
I. We all feel off kilter. It used to be fewer, of us, so now there is more consensus. Is that an improvement? Discuss Can we agree...
Oct 30, 20231 min read
This Is Where I Walk - Mike Cullinane
This is where I walk. In the hour of the red dawn Washing the twilight in my mind. Displaying the imperfections, The obstructions to...
Oct 26, 20231 min read
Stardust, Golden, Back to the Garden - Catherine Norris
It’s late summer and I read an article about a woman’s disdain for August and agreed, until today, when I soaked my desirous bones in the...
Oct 22, 20231 min read
Against the Current - Nancy Manning
From my student’s hawk-like talons hangs a dangling mouse that squirms to free herself before he threatens to drop her remains. Day after...
Oct 20, 20231 min read
Haunted House - Hannah Rae
I put the flame of the lighter to my wrist, skin puckering like a loved mouth, the morning sun doesn’t even do me so good. It is seven...
Oct 18, 20232 min read
Withered Dreams - Linda-Raven Woods
I have the receipt for my dad’s first guitar, a Yamaha acoustic he bought in September of 1965 which means it was the gift he gave to...
Oct 12, 20231 min read
bar flies - Katey Taylor
A pale face from my past orders a whiskey and coke. His crooked grin gritting ice as his callused fingertips crawl up my femur. With a...
Oct 8, 20231 min read
1st Place Poetry Contest Winner - Emma Conlon
notes on womanhood (abridged) liminal space 1. the place a person is in during a transitional period 2. empty or abandoned places that...
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