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Feb 27, 20231 min read
Artemis at the University - Margaret Coombs
I stride to campus with swinging hips, ignore the honks, the heckling. It is summer and I am wearing a sun dress embroidered in green and...


Feb 24, 20231 min read
The Other Side of the Moon - Lydia Trethewey
After Helen Frankenthaler a moon is pale red in an areola of mauve light green-body of the sky hung in web of membranes diaphanous...


Feb 18, 20231 min read
Trump’s Impact on My Relationship With My Mother - Zodia Doe
Throat just tight enough to suffocate the rank, animalistic grief, the grunts and moans vulnerable as orgasm. Thoughts just crowded...


Feb 15, 20231 min read
Exclamations of the Feminine Gender - Julie Benesh
I have a facility correctional: voice sentenced to be passive; imperative I be interrogative?! Were I to be infinitively subjunctive you...


Feb 13, 20238 min read
Dirty Little Secrets - Shelby Hunt
Evelyn Knight stared out the window of the black limo, anxious to get home and see her mother, she picked at her nails in her lap. Evelyn...


Feb 9, 20232 min read
Rusalka - Hannah Cole
It’s like drawing in sand. This is what Rusalka whispers through the crack in the bathroom stall, referring to the men she meets in...


Feb 6, 20231 min read
Making Beauty - Shamsa Khan
I carry the loss of loved ones, like jewels pressed between my cupped hands I carry the shock of my awakening, like a sheltered pearl...


Feb 3, 20231 min read
These Hills tell the Story - Liliana Berumen
The night was cold over the Southwestern hills I miss holding his rings to imagine their labeled as mine but we learned of the lies from...


Jan 31, 20231 min read
Man’s Nature - A E Ryan
What happens when you remove a tribesman from his native clothing—leather, linen, silk? He begins to die and self-medicate with chemical...


Jan 28, 20231 min read
pray/prey - Nico Bryan
I’ll rest right here, make shelter out of your sternum, etch a prayer on your ribs. I read it out loud, but all you hear is a howl....


Jan 25, 20231 min read
I Fell. - Sophia Caselnova
Fall was always my favorite; Halloween, foliage, pumpkins. The crisp cool air that causes goose bumps, but doesn’t yet make you shiver....


Jan 22, 20239 min read
Her - Meghzie D Peach
I I was around five shots of local rum into the evening when I spotted her. Gracefully, shamelessly, regretfully her. Scrolling between...
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