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Aug 27, 20221 min read
Primal Blue - Christen Lee
They say to keep alive the memory of the ones you’ve lost but do they tell you the cost of remembering while also trying to raise the...


Aug 24, 202211 min read
Ms. M - Kayla Branstetter
“Just remember, you’re not alone,” Ms. M said as she cradled the eighteen-year-old college freshman girl, looking past the watery wells...


Aug 21, 20221 min read
On Being Neglected - Melanie Gilkerson
In the summer of 2000, after we were evicted Mom left us alone to Sleep in her boyfriend’s basement. Used to absence, we played catch in...


Aug 18, 20221 min read
Salt and steel - Maya Weichbrodt
Salt and steel survive in icy blue. Red fingers chapped and cracked by cold parched by endless heat drip with a promise. One that bleeds...


Aug 15, 20226 min read
Being with Him - Melissa Mark
\Being with him embodies that feeling, like the one that surged through me moments before every high school football game. Back then, we...


Aug 12, 20228 min read
Cigarette Smoke. - Phoebe Robertson
When cigarette smoke enters your mouth the lining in your nose and esophagus will almost immediately become red and irritated. This is...


Aug 11, 202213 min read
1st Place Short Story Contest: Finding You - Emma Zimmerman
Helping Survivors is an online-only organization working remotely providing resources for individuals who have experienced sexual assault...


Aug 9, 20224 min read
About Saying No - Corinne O’Shaughnessy
I turn 60 and think, Shit, if I want learn Spanish someday, I better get crackin’. So I move to Oaxaca and enroll in language school, but...


Aug 6, 20228 min read
Is Putin Still the Only Choice? - Judy Richardson
I remember when, on November 18 of 1956, Kruschev declared, “We will bury you!”. (What he actually said was, "My vas pokhoronim,” which...


Aug 3, 202210 min read
Short-Lived Love - Constantina Safiliou Rothschild
I didn’t care how badly he spoke Greek. John was strikingly handsome. Beautiful dark brown eyes, a well-proportionated body, and dashing...


Jul 31, 20221 min read
Alyson Hays - Sunset
My heart strong Beats with life Each day fades With a dying sunset Burning away The waning glow Stops me in my place I wonder why When my...


Jul 28, 20222 min read
The Kind of Morning Where - Dartinia Hull
It’s been the kind of morning where: You know you mopped the kitchen floor last night but it’s sticky this morning, so you mop again. You...
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