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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 ...  [+]
Poetry
Poetry
Short Fiction
 5 min

Heaven Or Limbo

Marlene Uscanga

lim·bo-intermediate state or condition.
“What do you mean Billy disappeared?”
“Well, it's as I said sir, we were all sitting in his living room, discussing different ways we could sneak past the ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

Wildfires

Rebecca Araten

Grandma was the first one who let me hold matches. Mommy and Daddy were such scaredypants, they would yell at me just for sneaking out of the kitchen when the oven door was open.
“You could burn ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 4 min

My Personal Cheerleaders

Hannah Hardy

A frigid breeze whipped across my face. I, standing on the shore, stared out across a glacial lake of Homer, Alaska. As our tour guide informed us, that glacial lake sits in the mountains full of ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 1 min

As Petals Drift, We Walk Away

Katelyn Savard

The chrysanthemums were striking in their glory. Yellows and whites, kissing softly, heads bent together in reverence. Oh, Ria wished to be one of those flowers, heads bent in secret with another. ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

Promised Love

Connor Jones

Hey, I’m. . . um. . . I’m not sure what to do. I never thought this would actually happen. What to do, what to do. . . I guess, ugh, this is awkward. Did you hear that? Do you hear? Or do you see what ...  [+]
Poetry
 1 min

Stars

Hannah Hardy

Gazing into a midnight sky
is all it will ever be
until the stars whisk past
darkness is ...  [+]
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Short Fiction
 1 min

Boomerang

Hannah Hardy

He stood, leaned against the jeep, toes pointed toward the desert horizon, breaths filtered by dust. His eyes moved over the still, illuminated sky. He glanced down and began examining the oddly ...  [+]
Poetry
Short Fiction
 4 min

The Red Painting

Miriam Arce

It was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen.

A portrait of a young lady, waiting in the garden next to her house. A frozen memory of her face as she sits on a swing behind a tree. I first ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 4 min

Orange Eggs and Ecstasy

Adelle Else

Today I had orange eggs for breakfast.
I thought it was strange so I looked it up and found that an especially happy chicken lays eggs with orange yolks. It saddened me to think of the countless ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

The Taboo in the Jungle

Emmalisa Horlacher

“Do you know what happens in the jungle?” the Grandfather asked.
Little Kendi shook his head as he fluffed his pillow and laid his head down.
“Too many children have gone into the jungle and not ...  [+]