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Creative Nonfiction
 2 min

The Letter From Hogwarts

Minh Nguyen

“Why am I not a wizard?”
“Why would you want to be a wizard?”
“I don’t know. Maybe Wingardium Leviosa my problems away forever? That would be so much easier than facing them alone with my ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 5 min

Ashes to Ashes

Tyler Slade

I remember visiting Heidi in San Francisco, when I was younger. She was so charismatic in those days, her icy blue eyes glinting mischievously as she lay sprawled out beneath the window, looking like ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 3 min

Mornings

Whitney Brown

I went to bed early last night, which is something I only do when I could really use some extra sleep. It was a good plan and an honest attempt to take better care of my body. But at 12:45 a.m., I ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Fear In Disguise

Rebecca Philippe

My life has been conditioned in a way that I can’t explain. I’m deep in a hole that I can’t dig myself out of. I ask myself, what is life exactly? Is it all about surviving? Is it just a waiting room ...  [+]
Poetry
Short Fiction
 2 min

Fey

Adrienne Powell

Just before the snow falls, the fairies lay their eggs. To you, they look like plain white berries, hanging on little green-leafed branches of shrubs. But go out at night and you will see them hatch ...  [+]
Poetry
Creative Nonfiction
 1 min

Open Letter on a Broken Heart

Adrienne Powell

Dear —,
Here’s my two cents about thieving: if you’re going to steal someone’s heart, you should let them have yours; it’s hard to live without a heart, you know. If they can’t have yours, then ...  [+]
Poetry
Short Fiction
 5 min

Trading for Dishes

Leorah McGinnis

I truly hate doing the dishes, Tati thought as she regarded a teetering pile of plates and pots and coffee mugs. It was one of those insufferable, Sisyphean tasks of life that never really gets ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

A Short Horror

Lillian Davis

Late into the night you finally return home. You open the door and step into the unlit blackness of what should have been your home. Instinctively you reach out to flick on the lights, but the light ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

I, Public Enemy

Jeremy Ng

Long story short, I became Public Enemy Number One.

The last 24 hours had been surreal. I, a 22-year-old college student, was declared by the state as the “the most vicious vermin eve ...  [+]
Poetry
Short Fiction
 3 min

Refuge

Annie Nguyen

Your dichotomy of reality and transcendence destabilizes as you breathe in the image before you. Ribbons of sunlight seducing piney branches into a dance. The solemn army of trees expanding far beyond ...  [+]
Poetry
Poetry
Short Fiction
 5 min

Untitled

Taylor Fischer

Tapping her left foot onto the cobblestones, J’s nervous tick is heading into full overdrive. She takes a sip of hot coffee to attempt to calm her nerves. The sip is just a bit pre-mature, and the ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 5 min

Chippoaks

Taylor Fischer

The radio blares on, playing the latest pop song, a radio game, or a discussion of the day’s traffic. You look over to the red analog letters: 4:30 AM. The sun has yet to wake up, it’s still sleeping ...  [+]