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So

by Ivan de Monbrison I should have died much sooner, right after Dad died. I should have killed myself very quickly, without even taking the time to think about it too much, because afterwards you hesitate, you procrastinate, and it’s already over for good. But my first real suicidal urge…

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Hollow Places

by Hayley Russell You walk through rooms as if stepping into old paragraphs, edges curling, floorboards breathing cold against your feet, wallpaper lifting at the seams like peeling time, colors fading into the bruised yellow  of a memory you never wanted to inherit.  Every chair remembers who once sat in it.  Every door still holds the shape of how…

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Four Lokos and Forty Ounces

by Ophelia Knight In every ghetto there is a being nicknamed SEXY ________     @ 8:30am they rise  mixing Florida water and watching as the rhinestones fall     from thrifted applebottom jeans    they have grandmothers that kneel in church pews & call on  their singular version of Jehovah        taking baths in milk      clouded with lavender bubble bath   tendrils of kanekalon dyed…

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Photo by Nathan Wright on Unsplash

So

by Ivan de Monbrison I should have died much sooner, right after Dad died. I should have killed myself very quickly, without even taking the time to think about it too much, because afterwards you hesitate, you procrastinate, and it’s already over for good. But my first real suicidal urge…

read more...

Photo by Nathan Wright on Unsplash

Hollow Places

by Hayley Russell You walk through rooms as if stepping into old paragraphs, edges curling, floorboards breathing cold against your feet, wallpaper lifting at the seams like peeling time, colors fading into the bruised yellow  of a memory you never wanted to inherit.  Every chair remembers who once sat in it.  Every door still holds the shape of how…

read more...

Photo by Mateusz Dach:

Four Lokos and Forty Ounces

by Ophelia Knight In every ghetto there is a being nicknamed SEXY ________     @ 8:30am they rise  mixing Florida water and watching as the rhinestones fall     from thrifted applebottom jeans    they have grandmothers that kneel in church pews & call on  their singular version of Jehovah        taking baths in milk      clouded with lavender bubble bath   tendrils of kanekalon dyed…

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