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Creative Nonfiction
 2 min

Words Unspoken

Mansha M.

To my unborn child,

Yearning to hold you in my arms, I think about what you will look like. Will your eyes resemble mine or your fathers'? Will you smile from ear to ear or sheepishly as you ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Hunt

Helen Kong

Moonlight shone upon the street, lingering around. There was only one person wandering around humming a song.

‘Hey Jude, don't make it bad...' The song was fluttering around the street. ...  [+]
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
Short Fiction
 5 min

The Terminal

Danni Zhou

It was the end of summer.
The sun grew into a large, old asphalt ball that tardily melted down. Waves of heat rose off the ground, and the figures of Nguyet and her aged horse weaved slowly within ...  [+]