A Nelson’s Sparrow is a bird without a flight or fight instinct. A predator could be a breath away and a Nelson’s Sparrow wouldn’t fly away, even when it should. This is important to know. Nelson’s Sparrow flies in front of me. Once upon a time a man held me as a broken bird. […]
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is this how a haunted house feels? the aching, resignation, anger the constant longing for freedom all the wondering if it will ever end, all the wondering what it did to deserve the ghost do they get annoyed with everyone who has heard of the ghoul and come tramping all over them screaming Show me […]
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I am the girl who draws stories from thin air I ponder the line between fantasy and reality I hear the whisper of the air and the soft voices contorted between two realities I see the golden mist, nonexistent but in the eyes of youth I wish to emerge from the cold darkness of reality […]
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things are getting tired now but the clock ticks on as the paint slides down the walls. i dream of ophelia’s mouth filling with water while the moon is singing on her face, all silver lines and unsaid words. i dream of cassandra, wishing for the stifling smoke of troy burning instead of the bite […]
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To the boy in fourth grade who asked me why my stomach was larger than my chest– To the girl in high school, who hated me though we had never spoken, because my arm was bigger than her thigh– To my spindle waisted mother who told me that I would be prettier than any of […]
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“Eclipse” by Rachel Schreiber is one of the February Writing Challenge entries that was chosen to be a featured story. I grabbed his hand in my own, guiding him towards the little house we called our own. “Bex, slow down, I can’t handle all this running.” He huffed and puffed, tugging on my hand, […]
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My favorite part was laying at the edge of the world together. Backs on 200-year-old concrete. Faces at eternity old sky. Prosciutto and curry chicken and Trader Joe’s crackers spewed around us and lullabies spewed around us and youth spewed around us rising off of us like heat from the concrete road in the middle […]
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“Almost” by Chloë Jessica is one of the February Writing Challenge entries that was chosen to be a featured story. “No!” She cried. “I’m not going in there.” “Why? Scared?” I taunt playfully, tugging at the hem of her shirt. She caved in and followed me through the long, scratchy wheat creating a sea […]
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Welcome, Germies, to this month’s writing challenge! This challenge will begin today and will end February 28th. However, you are welcome to come back anytime to complete this challenge and submit it below. We will pick a few of our favorites that are submitted during this month, though, and they will be featured in our Lit Fiction section. […]
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