Recent Writing

A Black teen girl in a green top tries on a spotted hat in front of a mirror

A Familiar Stranger

by Jasmine Janelle Royer I remember puberty.She was a foe at 11;ripped open the seamsthat held my shameand let it loose;ferocious and starving.Red like wineas it clawed its wayfrom my nethers to belowmy thighs, stained flesh.Followed by the wideningof my hips into canyons,the fullness of my lipsleft a plenty, for my…

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Decay

by Michele L Tremblay They often did this and they were here again: falling on to the remnants of some long-forgotten road that led into dark and dense woods. As always, they didn’t know how they got there and they weren’t sure how they would get back. She imagined how…

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Reframing

by Lucia Cherciu Which good deeds count?What do we list on the professional development form                                                     at the gate?When I garden and collect slugs                                is that cruelty?You don’t have to gloat. I am researching if you can eat bindweedbecause it keeps coming upamong the broccoli.It turns out you can eat it,           but…

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