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Creative Nonfiction
Short Fiction
 5 min

Marin of the Sea

Tobin Eckstein

The strength of the ocean lives on inside of me. Tight-laced panels around my waist will never drain the saltwater from my veins, nor will high-heels ever rid me of my sea legs. I refuse to buckle ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 3 min

Bully

Tobin Eckstein

He doesn't look friendly.

Did he assume I wouldn't respond? Did he think that I would take one look at the narrow bifocals balancing at the tip of his pointed, ruddy nose, or glance down at ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 5 min

To say goodbye, we walk

Ruth Jeffers

into the garage, no more Buick or Honda, now driving his oldest grandchild and her babies between Wake Forest suburb and student seminary housing. No more museum of decapitated brooms, empty dusty ...  [+]
Poetry
Poetry
 2 min

ache

Sabina Haque

I stand,
feet positioned shoulder-width apart,
back straight like a Chicago skyscraper. ...  [+]
Poetry
Poetry
Short Fiction
 5 min

I see myself in you

Clarice Wu

Why?

I whispered under my breath, looking at my soulless corpse on the bed. Next to me, my dearest sister stood there in shock, with a pillow in her hands.

The pillow that suffocated ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 2 min

The Questions

Kevin Manunure

In the midst of a village, South of Africa
When we all thought we have done our duty as mourners
Digging the grave, because there was no funeral plan
He died a sinner, from spiritual spell ...  [+]
Poetry
Creative Nonfiction
Poetry
Creative Nonfiction
 5 min

A Sort of Shooting

Abby Knudsen

Two minutes before it happened, Maya and I lay in the middle of the hallway while the other six students paced and drank from the water fountain. With our brains jittery after the multiple-choice ...  [+]
Poetry
Creative Nonfiction
 1 min

Marriage

Allegra KIng

Our messy married life; wabi-sabi beautiful, imperfect,
impermanent, and forever incomplete.

Continually, we mend the chipped and broken pieces into art, our art, our life. Like Japanese ...  [+]
Poetry
 1 min

My Homes

John Cooper

I'm from the suburbs,
pristine and green.
Flora lines the front yards,
with Roses and ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 2 min

Looking for a Story

Isaac Buckley

What is one thing that everyone has but none of them are the same? The easy answer is a story. Where can a story be found? It can be found anywhere, as Callie found out one night long ago. Callie was ...  [+]