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Essays

An old woman survivor: my story

Jessica Bieker 0

I reached far back under the bed and pulled the orange out into the light of the small bedroom. The mold had grown since...

Essays

Sporco

Rina Palumbo 0

You stood there, surrounded. Sporco. Sporco. Sporco. They towered above you. You (a five-year-old child) stood there, surrounded. Sporco. Sporco. Sporco. They (adults) towered above you, laughing. You...

Leaving isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough

Articles

Essays in search of identity after cult, abuse

Jennifer Fischer 0

Part memoir, part essay collection, Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing is a fearless book.

Poetry

Their kind of pretty

A.L. DeLeon 0

Beautiful? Yes, I know I am. Though, it took me years to take such compliments gracefully. Not because I don’t see my own beauty; my own worth. I...

Essays

Ghost stories

Ash Blue 0

There's this trick to surviving trauma. You become a ghost. If you leave your body long enough, you can't feel anything. There's no exact...

Poetry

horses

Olivia 0

remember telling me about the horses the wild horses? I didn’t believe wild horses still roamed Georgia but you assured me showed me photographs of the horses in your...

Poetry

Miasma

Fiona Tinwei Lam 0

drowning I am in your bed my mind is underwater I am almost sleeping you are bathing me with your tongue rendering me all the senses gently shriveling when you hover I do not feel...

Poetry

Dream mother

Joyce Nash 0

I had a dream that you were proud of me. You walked next to me and smiled and squeezed my hand, and that’s how I knew it...

Poetry

Dish towels

Joyce Nash 0

The first lesson you taught me was how to fold the dish towels: First in half then one more half, and if I mess it up again, you’ll...

Poetry

Rage triptych

Lea Page 0

(Because three is, geometrically speaking, the most stable structure.) 1. An acquaintance once told me — at a Fourth of July parade, no less — that...