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Creative Nonfiction
 3 min

The Sweet Kiss of Wilderness

Amanda Lovell

We were driving down Highway 37 on our way back from Dawson City, Yukon. We had been on the road for almost three weeks and we were spent. Long days of driving long B.C. roads that carried few people ...  [+]
Poetry
Short Fiction
Short Fiction
 4 min

The First Fall

Abigayle Hobby

Have you ever wondered why the leaves turn brilliant shades of red and orange in the fall? It’s quite the story actually. No, it doesn’t have anything to do with chlorophyll or the earth's tilt. I ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

Clasped

Skylar Gruys

He moved in, hand clutching hand as I was pushed into the wall. The sky was eerie bright, the half-moon large, sparked light.

It was our third date, a monumental first step. The first had ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

Fate

CK Jensen

I believe in fate.
And today, I can feel it.
Today is the day where fate brings me true love.
My yellow raincoat twists around me as I dance down the hall. The other tenants in my apartment ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 2 min

A Spoon Full of Sugar

Emma Hostetter

I found it in his gray suit coat while doing some cleaning. It was in a white marbled box tucked in his coat pocket. I knew it was meant to be a surprise, but I couldn’t help my fingers from sliding ...  [+]
Poetry
Poetry
Short Fiction
 2 min

Susannah Lee

Dahlia Breiter

On the southern banks of the Susquehanna, when the last dregs of winter were melting away- that’s when I first met my true love. Her name was Susannah Lee, and I had never seen anything quite like ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

Sertraline

Nikki Gallant

When I was six, a seed took root in my body. Though small, it had a profound effect. I was young and naïve, and this new part of me was like a new toy for me to break in. I fed it, watered it and gave ...  [+]
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Short Fiction
 3 min

Kissing Carrie

Riley McGreer

Carrie Jackson wasn’t a normal child.

Science had always been her favorite subject, studying life and death and the cycle that all things had to go through in some form or another. After weeks ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

Decisions

ANDRES CORREA

After twelve hours of no sleep and no food, tightly handcuffed to a chair and sitting in the middle of the US-Mexico border control office, an old woman of seventy-five years called Magdalena ...  [+]
Poetry
 1 min

yet

Dahlia Breiter

loved to read, yet I always have been ripped from the pages-
choosing oblivious eyes without a ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 2 min

The Bear

Skylar Gruys

The sky dimmed dauntingly, the depiction dark. A stagnant air was wallowed in.

I observed it out the car window; eerie, or perhaps just foggy. Its hiss was unmissable. It was previously a ...  [+]