Through her piercing hazel eyes, the road to happiness starts with a glass plate of perfection. The diary of destruction nests below the pillow of …
A letter to myself by Indya Shaw
On the days that I feel as though I am not worthy of being loved, I will strive to love myself more than ever. I …
Mo(u)rning After(math) by Meggie Royer
The morning after was different for me than most. It was a morning I crawled out of, all the seasons of fear still thick on …
Wolf Men by Nicole Deardorff
They loped up to me ‘Baby, hold yourself together, they can smell your fear.’ I grew up warned, always held my breath and willed my …
2014 Cast Out by Kiernan Norman
I bought mascara and cantered through it — stopping every so often to straighten up, to relevé, to turn exactly 1.8 pirouettes then stumble out …
Utah by Megan Waring
We stop at the only place with a food sign. Drive into nothing. Green River. See a diner. Sit by the window. Ask if that …
Finally Free by Aarushi Marde
Dew drops rested on flowers As the cool mist hung in the sky The foggy morning dawned ahead The break of the day was still …
Just Another One by Chance Walsh
An empty sky, eyes turned up searching, seeking pupils speaking of placement I ponder, trying not to go under, wade in the water, wander in …
What I Never Wrote by Talicha J.
was how he wasn’t really my first, she was. We were explorers of the other’s curves. Our fingers, teeth and lips were ships. Our hands …