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Tag: confusion

#Orlando

i say fuck a lot | Erica Gerald Mason

i hear the news and i can’t stop saying fuck which is both like me and unlike me and part of me is grateful i don’t have cable so i can’t spend all day watching...

Poetry/Website Features

“mumbling latin” By: Tara Roeder

i want to do something to impress you: shoot zigzags of purple lightning from my eyeballs, nonchalantly float cars until they whirlpool around me in a circle, c...

Creative Non-Fiction/Prose/Website Features

“Everyone Should Cough into Their Elbows” By: Ananya Kumar-Banerjee

“Why won’t you just cough into your elbows?” Dad’s coughs are echoing off the walls again. It’s been two weeks and both of them are still sick. I sometime...

Poetry/Website Features

“I’m Afraid I Let It Bloom” By: Azia DuPont

I grew up in a white skinned bubble I grew up breasts cupped in a white man’s hands I grew up and the bubble stopped feeling safe I’m still realizing the bubble...

Poetry/Website Features

“Answers” By: Janet Manzo

  You ask yourself and you’re not sure what all this is really for you want to sleep but it won’t come   your mind is tired but still must...

Prose/Short Stories/Website Features

“The Good Friend” By: Alexandra Stanislaw-Bennett

I’ve made mistakes, plenty. I’m not afraid to admit it. I take responsibility for all of them, even this one. She has brown hair and brown eyes and looks ...

Flash Fiction/Prose/Website Features

“Two Gloves” & “Bite” By: Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois

“Two Gloves” Cheryl starts her homeless career, hikes onto the freeway onramp. This is the spiritual center of L.A., she says aloud, to no one. One ...

Flash Fiction/Prose/Website Features

“Bridle” By: Jessica Evans

Darkness comes through the decaying wooden slats of the pen you forced me into last night. It’s time to wake up. Long before I hear your boots plodding along th...

Flash Fiction/Prose/Website Features

“Metro Beach” By: Yong Takahashi

I hold my breath as my mother holds me under the water. This is not the first time we have visited Metro Beach. While other people come here to enjoy the beauti...

Poetry/Website Features

“A Charismatic, Brutal Mormon Boy” By: Amasa Guy Larkins

Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, arise...

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