The hospice smells too clean. Nurses wheel around heavy carts of grief. The immensity of our love makes us ill with sadness. How imposing that …
PBR by Phoebe Lyons
That night, I slipped out of the house with my hair in knots and toasted my DARE officer with a Coors Light from the passenger …
A Prayer for My Imaginary Little Sister by Shannon J. Curtin
Congratulations, Happy Birthday, Merry Christmas, little sister, here’s my wish list. My litany of lessons, my book of prayers, the incantations I say in your …
For All the Girls with Messy Hearts, and to the Men Whose Skin Have Tasted Mine by Sade Andria Zabala
Let’s be honest here — I am not the girl men fall in love with. I am the girl that men want to fuck. I …
Three Rooms by Emily Ward
I didn’t learn how to tie my shoelaces until I was twelve and three-quarters — I was used to loving the mud between my toes, …
Wanderlust by Dana Li
Won’t you come, and walk these rugged roads with me? We can drive that beat-up van through stretches of golden cornfield, dappled with dying sunlight, …
A Simple Step Back by Chance Walsh
I’ll leave it all behind, one day I’ll look back At this place stopped in time, these people that are mine They line the nights, stretched into a …