The glass shatters with a painful Nerve-jangling, ear-splitting crack Lethal shards skitter across the floor like bugs And catch the light a few hundred ways. …
Words by Veronica Tyler
There were so many words. She could feel them thick in the air, fluttering over her skin and getting tangled in her hair People passing …
Vanity’s Shroud by Dana Li
What a strange old world, where I’ve got one heart but a thousand faces, I’ve got a hundred friends but one ticket to Vegas. What …
Hortensia’s Speech by Farah Ghafoor
out of the cement the plaster come unholy diamonds. these slate men pointing fingers at priestesses goddesses hookers in silver. water pools from the salivating …
Everything and Everything by Asma Gaba
Sometimes I think I’m okay. But other (most) times I am an enormous mass, a large amount of misery. It eats me up and breaks …
In My Neighborhood by Julia Nunnally Duncan
There were many mothers in my neighborhood: Beulah, who tended to my foot on a summer day when I stepped on a shard of broken …
Bird Walk by Faith Reale
my Mother and i used to go on walks together. Our hands swinging, She’d point to the Singing birds and whisper their names in the …
Broken by Rachel Friede
You broke me, I remember that– every single detail about it. Do you? Do you remember it? Don’t worry if you don’t I’ve written it …
This Paper Plane by Aditi Chanda
This paper plane that’s on my wrist Flies round and round my clenched fist As steel is pressed upon my skin To spill the things …