by Valerie Logel The day after my twenty-first birthday, I was driving home from a family dinner with the man who would later become my abusive ex in the passenger seat. The radio played softly, and we were talking about plans for the rest of my birthday celebration. It was supposed to…
by Anna Elizabeth These foothills are too steep For someone like me to climb. And so I lock the doors, And I throw the key away. Let the world spin Without me for a while. Let me cower Under these sheets. Let me learn to breathe When I am suffocating. Exile me to lands Where the speechless speak. Maybe then, I…
by Raymond Brunell Leah placed the plastic divider after the cereal boxes. The customer’s hand followed, setting down milk, bread, and chicken thighs in foam and cellophane. Tuesday afternoon, register three, the fluorescents making everyone look sick. She scanned the cereal. The beep felt wrong in her wrist. For a second she…
by Valerie Logel The day after my twenty-first birthday, I was driving home from a family dinner with the man who would later become my abusive ex in the passenger seat. The radio played softly, and we were talking about plans for the rest of my birthday celebration. It was supposed to…
by Anna Elizabeth These foothills are too steep For someone like me to climb. And so I lock the doors, And I throw the key away. Let the world spin Without me for a while. Let me cower Under these sheets. Let me learn to breathe When I am suffocating. Exile me to lands Where the speechless speak. Maybe then, I…
by Raymond Brunell Leah placed the plastic divider after the cereal boxes. The customer’s hand followed, setting down milk, bread, and chicken thighs in foam and cellophane. Tuesday afternoon, register three, the fluorescents making everyone look sick. She scanned the cereal. The beep felt wrong in her wrist. For a second she…