Happy March, my fellow Germs! I hope that you all are doing well and are looking forward to the spring. For this month’s Belle Lettres, the focus will be on some up-and-coming women writers in honor of Women’s History Month. Usually, Belle Lettres centers around writers of the past and present; however, I believe it’s important […]
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Kill the part of you that believes it can’t survive without someone else. Start with the hands. The feeble way they shake holding your morning coffee, the way they did his dishes, his laundry, so willingly. How they itch from the want of undressing his memory. All lonely. All empty – you. Cut them off. […]
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Months ago, I was approached by budding author Sade Andria Zabala to review her newest collection of poems called War Songs, and I was so excited to hear from her! She has one other book out called Coffee and Cigarettes, and, naturally, I couldn’t wait to dive head first into War Songs. And can we just […]
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I am not a magazine people mindlessly flip through when they’re bored. I am literature. I am art. I am stories with a spine. I am the book you pick up but never buy. I am the book you open but never finish to read and that’s okay. I write for myself anyway. […]
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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 am a conquest. A prize. A show. I could count on five hundred fingers the number of people that have professed, “I like you. You’re different. You’re an interesting girl.” […]
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