Poetry
Short Fiction

Rock Candy Sweetness

Mia Maxwell

My bloodless white fingers grasped my thighs, squeezing away like Sunday lemonade. I gasped, letting my head fall back. I thumbed the lining of my shorts, finding a loose thread and pulling hard. No ...  [+]

Poetry
Short Fiction

Forgotten Eyes

Aiden Jones

Mallory Johnson lived in the suburbs behind a white picket fence and a dark pine door. Her husband called her "Mal" when he trudged in late on the weekends, drunk and tired. David Smith was a working ...  [+]

Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Creative Nonfiction
Poetry
Poetry
Short Fiction

A Tale of Three Friends

Miriam Arce

A long time ago, in a lonely forest, lived three unlucky friends.

Vanished into the land of the lost souls, they were outcasts left to perish—left with nothing but regret and anguish.

It ...  [+]

Poetry
Poetry
Short Fiction
Poetry
Short Fiction

Lemons

Keturah McQuade

Anya sat slumped on the couch with her hands on her stomach, anxiously anticipating her husband's return from work. She watched emptily as her breathing raised her hands slowly up and down. Her navel ...  [+]

Poetry

Wrongs

Keturah McQuade

Topsoil crumbles in my hands.
I am digging, parting the ground like Moses
only I see no Fathe ...  [+]

Creative Nonfiction

Goodbye

Keturah McQuade

I stand, face tilted to the floor with my mouth half open and my unfocused eyes drifting like a bobber with no fishing line. My mind is blank yet filled with thoughts—too many to explore, so I ...  [+]