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Short Fiction
 4 min

How to Become a Prophetess

Savannah Nicole

Once upon a time, a young brunette sat outside the nearly empty train station in Brockingway. She pulled her purple shawl tighter around her shoulders. The snow that had began to come down stuck to ...  [+]
Poetry
 3 min

Grief

Savannah Nicole

The sky king created the heavens,
With a blank canvas he began
squid’s ink and dragon’s ...  [+]
Poetry
Creative Nonfiction
 3 min

Watery Shadows

Ruth Thomas

I can hear bell towers and train whistles from my window.

Sometime during high school, my memories started to get murkier. It got harder to remember what I’d eaten last or what I had learned in ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 2 min

The Garden Swing

Benjamin Daniel

The rusted chains creaked softly, their music carried by a soft wind that rustled the leaves of nearby trees. The leather seat pressed uncomfortably against me as my gaze stayed fixed on the colorful ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

Utopia

Justine Imburgio

Ernest cracked two eggs into the black frying pan with a sizzle. The fumes of which wafted up to him in wisps of vapor that warmed his stubbled chin. Lovingly, he picked up the bottle of pepper next ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

109 Degrees

Madison Banfield

You have a few seconds when you step outside in the winter before the cold soaks into your skin. As a kid I was challenged by my older cousins to abandon the steaming hot tub sanctuary at my aunt’s ...  [+]
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Short Fiction
 5 min

a ritual of change and revolution

Emma Mendez

I was the ruler of my own heart, a lover of everything life threw at me, and a carrier of grief, a messenger of death. I was once all these things in my past lives; I would like to think I still ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 1 min

The Sentinel

Rachel Allen Everett

Hours have passed. I still haven’t reached the ground. The creaking of these ancient, rusted scaffolds echoes in the endless expanse, pressing in on me as I climb ever downward. The haunted light ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
Poetry
 2 min

Hidden

Shane Miller

Pain! Woes! Agony!

Tears streamed from my unearthly face
What a ghastly display of ...  [+]
Poetry
Short Fiction
 2 min

Eternal Frost

Shane Miller

Shimmering sheets of ice streaked the land for as far as any eye could hope to see. That’s all there would ever be. The sun scarcely penetrated the thick clouds of fog that rolled endlessly on what ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

Deuteragonist

Margaret Hall

The detective leaned up against the cold brick of the alleyway, a cigarette hanging loosely from his lips. In the distance, he could hear the firetrucks wail as they sped through streets still slick ...  [+]
Poetry
 1 min

Lifecycle

Sohel Vohra

Winter passes into spring
Seasons come and go
Theres a time for everything
For everything ...  [+]