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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...
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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

Parachutes

Joan Mazza 1
Cash saved for the unexpected broken tooth, car repair, the day the central heating quits. Water jugs and food to last the outage, snowstorm, hurricane. Go-bag with important papers....
Woman in profile sitting at a campfire with a man in profile farther away near the fire.
Poetry

#MeToo

Julia Park Tracey 0
what I mean is, I said no to my ex for the first time. I said no. I said no. I said no fucking way you stupid piece...
wildfire as metaphor for sexual assault photo by Benjamin Lizardo
Essays

Assault

Barbie Beaton 1
A storm inside the mind is not so different from a wildfire.
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