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“The Remarkable Life of a Celebrity Mountain Lioness” by Tina Plottel
Poetry

“The Remarkable Life of a Celebrity Mountain Lioness” by Tina Plottel

August 7, 2023August 7, 20230

“my swift nights powered by / Starbucks are behind me.”
#MetaworkerMonday #TheMetaworker

“Retreat” by Amita Basu
Fiction

“Retreat” by Amita Basu

July 31, 2023August 7, 20230

“I stand at the corner hailing autorickshaws. Many are ferrying schoolchildren, plastic sacks full of produce, five-litre gas cylinders, or the drivers’ wives holding stacked egg-trays bound for grocers.”
#TheMetaworker #MetaworkerMonday

“For Thea” by Linda Lacy
Fiction

“For Thea” by Linda Lacy

June 26, 2023August 7, 20230

Nate turns me toward him, my round belly the bumper between us, his brown eyes plead with me. “Everyone has evacuated. We have to go now. Please.”
#TheMetaworker #MetaworkerMonday

“New Year’s Day” by Sharon Y. Sim
Fiction / Micro

“New Year’s Day” by Sharon Y. Sim

June 12, 2023June 5, 20230

Microfiction by Sharon Y. Sim
#MetaworkerMonday #TheMetaworker

“Murder in the Dark” by F. J. Bergmann
Poetry

“Murder in the Dark” by F. J. Bergmann

May 15, 2023May 9, 20230

She came out of the woods with nothing but a blanket sprayed with white and silver paint #F. J. Bergmann #TheMetaworker
#MetaworkerMonday

“Beauty Defined” by Alexis Watson
Fiction

“Beauty Defined” by Alexis Watson

May 1, 2023May 29, 20235

“Your autumn red curls, wrapped in Nigerian print, crowned your head like royalty. Africa hung from your earlobes, swayed in pride.”
#MetaworkerMonday #TheMetaworker

“Game of Interludes” by Patricia Ann Bowen
Fiction

“Game of Interludes” by Patricia Ann Bowen

April 24, 2023April 17, 20230

“He told me how the image of that clear cold gin sliding past my red lips and down my throat had driven him nearly mad with desire.”
#MetaworkerMonday #TheMetaworker

The Metaworker Podcast – In the Willow Garden by Isabel O’Hara Walsh
Podcast

The Metaworker Podcast – In the Willow Garden by Isabel O’Hara Walsh

February 24, 2023March 11, 20230

Episode Description: Matthew, Elena, Mel, and Cerid talk with Isabel O’Hara Walsh about her short fiction piece “In the Willow Garden”. Content Warning: We discuss …

“The Furrowing” by Julie Allyn Johnson
Poetry

“The Furrowing” by Julie Allyn Johnson

January 23, 2023February 6, 20230

I asked about her yearnings, her desires, as I suspected they might, perhaps, mesh with my own. It was worth a try, an attempt at some sort of shared, miraculous
camaraderie.

The Scream by Nikola Sojka
Poetry

The Scream by Nikola Sojka

October 21, 2022October 19, 20220

I want to scream until my voice blistersAround the hot cinders of the words I spitI burn out next to the Sun and SisterWhere my …

The Gift by E.B. Cotenord
Non-Fiction

The Gift by E.B. Cotenord

October 17, 2022October 18, 20220

Trigger Warning: sexual themes and abuse In my career as a sex worker, I accept gifts with poise and grace. It’s an odd twist in …

“Out of Body” by Liza Olson
Fiction

“Out of Body” by Liza Olson

September 9, 2022November 27, 20220

I am lying flat on the ground in a quiet living room in a quiet home in the kind of quiet suburb everyone’s at least …

Three Microfictions by Ashley McCurry
Fiction / Micro

Three Microfictions by Ashley McCurry

September 5, 2022September 9, 20220

My Friends and I Started Having Premonitions About Future Lovers Sonia dreamt of being sawed in half by a mustached magician, rugged steel grinding rosewood …

“Misplaced Affections” by Sinclaire Dickinson
Poetry

“Misplaced Affections” by Sinclaire Dickinson

August 26, 2022September 10, 20220

A golden retriever of a womanjust met and she’s practically sheddingin your lapshe steps away from packing heroverstuffed bagwell-meaning but not seeing boundaries that should …

“Susan” by Holly Day
Poetry

“Susan” by Holly Day

July 15, 2022July 10, 20220

I stood and watched you sleeping, hadstood there watching for nearly five minutes inthe shadow of the hallway for nearly five minutes of circustime before I …

“Arizona” by Zoë Blaylock
Poetry

“Arizona” by Zoë Blaylock

July 11, 2022September 3, 20220

Emerging writer Zoë Blaylock was educated in the school of hard knocks and droll encounters but credentialed by Harvard. She works in research/healthcare ethics in …

“That Damn Selfie” by Laurel Osterkamp
Fiction

“That Damn Selfie” by Laurel Osterkamp

June 13, 2022June 12, 20221

If only Joyce hadn’t taken that damn selfie. Her and Tate, laughing at a truck stop in Mexico, drinking beer with lime, his cotton t-shirt …

“Another Life” by Helen Nancy Meneilly
Poetry

“Another Life” by Helen Nancy Meneilly

June 10, 2022June 5, 20220

Helen Nancy Meneilly is an Irish poet whose work explores issues of identity, language, and womanhood. She is currently studying for her MA in Creative …

“Alligators to Ashes” by Margaret S Mandell
Non-Fiction

“Alligators to Ashes” by Margaret S Mandell

June 6, 2022April 30, 20234

Prologue to a Memoir Based on Love Letters to my Dead Husband By Margaret S. Mandell Sunday, December 10, 2017  My Dearest Love: October 2015. …

“Fever Dream” by Rebecca M Ross
Poetry

“Fever Dream” by Rebecca M Ross

May 30, 2022May 29, 20220

Rona piles rice from path to porch like snowdrifts sprinkled with crayon colored carrots, peas, corn– until the guardrail disappears under an ever-growing mountain  of …

“Text Me When You Get Home” by Helen Nancy Meneilly
Poetry

“Text Me When You Get Home” by Helen Nancy Meneilly

May 20, 2022June 5, 20221

night falls like a brick.  urgent tongue of wind stuck to the back of my neck, hair wrapped around my throat. fist of keys in …

“Inaccessible” by Connie Woodring
Poetry

“Inaccessible” by Connie Woodring

May 16, 2022May 15, 20220

I was afraid of my abusive and controlling ex-husband, but I didn’t know this until 10 years after I divorced him. I wrote hidden poems, …

“How to Use the Supermarket When You Are Losing Your Mind” by Rebecca M Ross
Poetry

“How to Use the Supermarket When You Are Losing Your Mind” by Rebecca M Ross

May 6, 2022May 1, 20220

When in a supermarket in a town not your own do not start screaming  “Where are the olives? Where are the fucking olives?” as you …

“What Lay Beneath” by Christine Yount Jones
Non-Fiction

“What Lay Beneath” by Christine Yount Jones

April 29, 2022May 1, 20220

In the sweltering summer of 1966, I have a kitten who will not cooperate under the Arizona sun that glares at me from its cloudless …

“I’ve Barely Been to College” by Kailey Tucker
Poetry

“I’ve Barely Been to College” by Kailey Tucker

April 25, 2022April 24, 20220

Autumn snapped my spine like the sudden flash of a spark, waking up the dark.  She brought rain and left me blooming, treading my fresh soles on top of …

“Dog Joy” by Judy Guilliams-Tapia
Non-Fiction

“Dog Joy” by Judy Guilliams-Tapia

April 22, 2022April 17, 20224

I am sitting on my meditation cushion, cross-legged and with eyes closed, warmed by the afternoon sun shining through the glass patio door in front …

“Plastic Hearts” by Chella Courington
Fiction

“Plastic Hearts” by Chella Courington

April 15, 2022April 10, 20220

At fifteen Anne bought her first action figure—Wonder Woman. When she saw her on television in her blue starry shorts, legs rising out of red …

“Rare” by Joanne Howard
Fiction

“Rare” by Joanne Howard

March 28, 2022March 20, 20230

Two a.m., well into her night shift at the NICU, was never a good time to receive a call on her cell. “He’s gone,” Jason’s …

“Pandemic Yoga” by Judith Beth Cohen
Fiction / Micro

“Pandemic Yoga” by Judith Beth Cohen

March 25, 2022March 20, 20220

At the Senior Center, we challenge stereotypes about old ladies. We practice yogaoutdoors for “social distance.” If it starts to drizzle, we ignore it. If …

“The Calling” by Christina Eagen
Poetry

“The Calling” by Christina Eagen

March 21, 2022March 20, 20220

without askingearthquakes rumbled to announce thearrival of mountains rivers roared to forewarn rocksof their ravage winds howled to demand fishermenback to shore wildfires raged to …

“So Many Ways to Live” by Victoria Woolf Bailey
Poetry

“So Many Ways to Live” by Victoria Woolf Bailey

February 11, 2022February 13, 20220

When that moment arrives(by car, by bus, by daybreak) We live in it like a house(condo, apartment, tent down by the river) Imagining we may …

“In the Willow Garden” by Isabel O’Hara Walsh
Fiction

“In the Willow Garden” by Isabel O’Hara Walsh

February 7, 2022February 13, 20220

Down in the willow garden, where me and my true love did meet,There we sat a-courting, my love fell off to sleep – “Rose Connelly,” …

“In the Kingdom of Songora” by Linda McMullen
Fiction

“In the Kingdom of Songora” by Linda McMullen

January 31, 2022January 30, 20220

James was a senior when I was a freshman at Salem North High School; I fell in love with him when I heard he’d persuaded …

“Abracadabra” by Christina Marable
Fiction

“Abracadabra” by Christina Marable

January 24, 2022March 15, 20220

The man I loved as my grandfather was a tall, strong, broad-shouldered man who carried a fake ear in his back pocket. With his indigo …

Microfiction by Megha Nayar
Fiction / Micro

Microfiction by Megha Nayar

January 10, 2022January 15, 20220

Grievances David calls as I’m retiring for the night. “You really need to stop spoiling that dog, Mom!” he begins without preamble when I pick …

“In Between” by Kelly Claytor
Fiction

“In Between” by Kelly Claytor

December 24, 2021March 15, 20222

Are you dead, Maria? One Hour It seems so. Seven Days Their black clothes. Their black veils. Their white handkerchiefs, dry in their pockets. None …

“Before” by Margaret Krusinga
Poetry

“Before” by Margaret Krusinga

December 20, 2021December 19, 20210

Margaret Krusinga lives on sixty acres she and her husband manage loosely for wildlife. Diagnosed with MS in 1976, she graduated college under a cloud, …

“Tethered” by Sarette Danae
Micro / Poetry

“Tethered” by Sarette Danae

November 1, 2021November 4, 20210

His is a lariat love, beginning with a wobbleAs it starts to unwind. Then stretching fastInto a wide-spreading circle, swinging wild,Arcing high, landing without warning,Just …

“One Learns Ruthlessly” by Lydia Storm
Fiction

“One Learns Ruthlessly” by Lydia Storm

October 25, 2021October 24, 20210

“And I learned, gentlemen. Alas, one learns when one has to. One learns when one wants a way out. One learns ruthlessly.” —Franz Kafka, “A …

“Brutal Roux” by Elyse Jancosko
Poetry

“Brutal Roux” by Elyse Jancosko

October 22, 2021October 17, 20210

Becca add morebutter Becca. That’s no way tomake a roux. Don’t just measure on a whim.Your flour and fat. Or fluid and fault.Meat drippings, maybe. …

“Bird Calls over Puget Sound” by Sarette Danae
Poetry

“Bird Calls over Puget Sound” by Sarette Danae

October 18, 2021October 17, 20210

There is no chirping from gulls, no chatter back and forth,No songs at sunrise or ushering in night. No lonely callsFor a lover to echo …

“Running on Empty” by Melissent Zumwalt
Non-Fiction

“Running on Empty” by Melissent Zumwalt

October 8, 2021October 4, 20210

June 1999 Bzz…Bzz…Bzz… My alarm sounds off, 2:00 a.m. A rude but expected awakening. Rolling onto my side, out of bed, I slump upright. From …

“Tenderness” by Mary Paulson
Poetry

“Tenderness” by Mary Paulson

October 4, 2021November 20, 20211

Through the eye of a dream,the round pit of a binocular opening,I recognize myselfstanding in front of a stranger,his gun barrel pressedagainst the bone between …

“Two Gates For Ghostly Dreams” by Dawn Bratton
Poetry

“Two Gates For Ghostly Dreams” by Dawn Bratton

September 20, 2021September 22, 20210

That motherlode of Sun right thereliterally blasting me in the face with its gloryit’s so far away (1 au, to be exact), but all this …

“Searching for the Cottingley Fairies” by Kim Malinowski
Poetry

“Searching for the Cottingley Fairies” by Kim Malinowski

September 17, 2021March 20, 20234

I. Snapshot Click. WHIRR. Shadowed still frame capturing fae.Ethereal grace magnified by child’s wonder.Muted only by adults’ misunderstanding “genuine.”Why would fae be less real if …

“Ruins” by Mary Paulson
Poetry

“Ruins” by Mary Paulson

September 13, 2021August 15, 20221

Mary Paulson currently lives and works in Naples, FL. Her poems have appeared in Slow Trains, Mainstreet Rag, Painted Bride Quarterly, Nerve Cowboy, Arkana, Thimble …

“The Sands of Time” by Rebecca Johnson
Poetry

“The Sands of Time” by Rebecca Johnson

September 3, 2021August 29, 20210

Amber, scarlet, gilded daffodil. All sits quiet, calm,and the sun sets as I turn to you. It takes a second but then I see a …

“No Dreamin’ at the Double Tree” by Suzanne S. Rancourt
Poetry

“No Dreamin’ at the Double Tree” by Suzanne S. Rancourt

August 30, 2021August 29, 20210

everything smells like soap except that one hallway smeared withvolatile coconut particles, reminds me of that porn theatre in somedank Indianapolis district wild with heavy …

“A Season’s Breath” by Turi Ekirapa
Non-Fiction

“A Season’s Breath” by Turi Ekirapa

August 27, 2021August 22, 20210

I can’t sleep. Deep breath in. Boredom has hit me like a speck of bird poop that I can’t shake off. I’m doing that thing …

“Hope is a Blue Jay” by Rebecca Johnson
Poetry

“Hope is a Blue Jay” by Rebecca Johnson

August 16, 2021August 15, 20211

I.As snow settles upon the landand brings with it crisp, frozen air,I’ll hear the cardinal’s jarring callas it echoes in my anxious mind. The cold …

“Pennies for Pilgrims” by Julie Allyn Johnson
Poetry

“Pennies for Pilgrims” by Julie Allyn Johnson

August 9, 2021August 8, 20210

Julie Allyn Johnson, a sawyer’s daughter from the American Midwest, began writing poetry after her retirement from IT work in 2017. She loves hiking, gravel-travel …

“Waiting” by Christine Webster-Hansen
Poetry

“Waiting” by Christine Webster-Hansen

July 19, 2021July 20, 20210

Eyes linger, unchanged photos thickened with dust,body-locked, estranged face gazing at the mirror,clutching at the mind, recalling memories dimly-flung,cycling again through sitcom and rerun.Bras holding …

“Waking Up in California” by Jennifer Novotney
Poetry

“Waking Up in California” by Jennifer Novotney

July 2, 2021July 1, 20211

My mother is already uplong retired from work, she putters aroundher house all day, buying things and giving them awaycalling friends, taking short walkskeeping herself …

“A Future Leviathan’s Prodigious Sister” by Mina Rozario
Fiction

“A Future Leviathan’s Prodigious Sister” by Mina Rozario

June 28, 2021June 30, 20211

They called me incandescent. Queens and counts, dukes and earls alike sat enthralled when I performed, swept up in a sea of notes that would …

“Rangoli Man” by Mina Rozario
Fiction

“Rangoli Man” by Mina Rozario

June 11, 2021August 15, 20221

Maya’s entire town had awoken one morning to find swarms of people milling outside their doors, their skins a mottled mix of colors: sunny yellows, …

“The Mosquito and the Bell Jar” by Carol Motta
Poetry

“The Mosquito and the Bell Jar” by Carol Motta

May 24, 2021June 30, 20210

Our balsa-sweet Mosquito flies low and slow into the burning sun, undetectable by radarI hear only air scratching past the belly of the holdNo bomb …

“We have Always Lived in the Castle” by Tara Campbell
Poetry

“We have Always Lived in the Castle” by Tara Campbell

May 21, 2021June 30, 20210

We have always lived within these walls,this gleaming, shining castle on a hill,a beacon held aloft for one and allto marvel at, imagining the thrill …

“The Shape of the Laugh in Your Throat” by Edie Meade
Non-Fiction

“The Shape of the Laugh in Your Throat” by Edie Meade

May 14, 2021June 30, 20211

From downstairs I hear you playfully yell “panties!” with the tantrum-bound toddler who is disemboweling my underwear drawer. By the shape of the laugh in …

“Diadem for the End of the World” by Randi Sanders
Poetry

“Diadem for the End of the World” by Randi Sanders

May 10, 2021June 30, 20210

Seven billion was the end predicted by that movie where the population was fed on a questionable combination of soy, lentils, and plankton that wasn’t …

“Antidote” by Kate Copeland
Poetry

“Antidote” by Kate Copeland

May 7, 2021June 30, 20210

A fire sunset facing her, thunder didn’t show, how much she even wished for this sky to hurt, to rive in two, boiling the river …

“Cardinal Sin” by Jennifer Fox
Fiction

“Cardinal Sin” by Jennifer Fox

April 30, 2021June 30, 20210

Julie stared at the cardinal laying in the snow outside her living room window. It was like fresh crimson on white porcelain tile which made …

“All the Water in the World” by Kate Copeland
Poetry

“All the Water in the World” by Kate Copeland

April 19, 2021June 30, 20210

A grey afternoon and when itcontinues to rain, a clueless patternleaves pools on our balcony, tearson the skylight.By now we knew who we are and …

“We Built a Fine Madness House” by Lorna D. Keach
Fiction

“We Built a Fine Madness House” by Lorna D. Keach

March 19, 2021June 30, 20210

Before their house was built, Jan and Stan spent hours staring at the blueprints, hunting for a 90-degree angle. Their architect told them the construction …

“Penny of Ithaca” by P.L. Watts
Fiction

“Penny of Ithaca” by P.L. Watts

March 15, 2021June 30, 20210

She’s even made the bed where another man will rape her. The swine have been slaughtered, the silver’s been laid. Everything’s ready. She scans the …

“Meditations on Water (Ode to Escambia)” by Stella Meadows
Non-Fiction

“Meditations on Water (Ode to Escambia)” by Stella Meadows

March 5, 2021August 15, 20221

I didn’t always know I was a woman. That’s one of the myths – that every trans person knows it from Day One. I guess …

“thick crusts of midnight in the late Ordovician, a wilderness of morning elsewhere” by Kate Shannon
Poetry

“thick crusts of midnight in the late Ordovician, a wilderness of morning elsewhere” by Kate Shannon

February 28, 2021March 14, 20211

i.other things live easy, you knowI suppose I, too, live easy in some ways.a domination of oceans gatheringa braying of old bones, dust and then …

“Unleashed” by Catherine Zickgraf
Fiction

“Unleashed” by Catherine Zickgraf

February 22, 2021February 22, 20210

I clutch Dad’s oak tree leg. He reads the congregation my pre-baptism testimony. Seems myheart rejects sin, especially finger-painting my bedroom during Sunday naptime. But …

“Sold Sign” by Kate Koch
Poetry

“Sold Sign” by Kate Koch

February 19, 2021February 19, 20210

The sunlight that crawls between hydrangea leaveswhile moss roses stretch and mouse through cracks in the stairs Neighbors who share their sweet ouzowith stories about …

“Recreate” by Shannon Cuthbert
Poetry

“Recreate” by Shannon Cuthbert

February 8, 2021February 7, 20210

Floating, ghost horse wakes in a fieldExactly like his own, just that he can’t touchThe soft weeds crawling up the fence.At first, he shivers into …

“ghazal for aguas del sur” by Kate Shannon
Poetry

“ghazal for aguas del sur” by Kate Shannon

January 29, 2021February 22, 20221

once, mothers waited for their dead children in damp bodies untilno more noises crept from their wind-polyp’d throats, until a dozen moons passed, a skinned …

“Bamboo” by Mary Donaldson-Evans
Fiction

“Bamboo” by Mary Donaldson-Evans

January 4, 2021January 3, 20210

Privacy.  Who doesn’t want privacy?  Even if you’ve sold off half your property to a persistent developer intending to put up twenty “McMansions” on it, …

“Red Summer” by Chariklia Martalas
Poetry

“Red Summer” by Chariklia Martalas

January 1, 20210

It was the days where the night would not come, for the sun  held the sky hostage just by a look. It was the tyrannical …

“Pour toi, mon amour” by Tasnia Nahla
Poetry

“Pour toi, mon amour” by Tasnia Nahla

December 12, 20200

Chaos sings, we areDisintegrating whole, drunkWith the city’s disillusionmentHalf and half and nowhere reallysick sipping stars, picking dirt off soles unmet; yet to birth new …

“Glass” by Chariklia Martalas
Poetry

“Glass” by Chariklia Martalas

November 16, 2020November 16, 20200

Did they tell you Inferno was made from glass? Clear as truth turned upside down  You can see through to the bottom of the world  …

“Zoom In-Out-In and Cry” by Hibah Shakhez
Poetry

“Zoom In-Out-In and Cry” by Hibah Shakhez

November 6, 2020November 5, 20200

Earth o’ mine green red brown and blue, They ask me which colour you are And laugh when I cannot answer. Could I lie you …

“Kurt” by Veronica Lupinacci
Poetry

“Kurt” by Veronica Lupinacci

October 23, 2020February 22, 20222

Kurt wouldn’t eat yellow rice. Hedidn’t like that exotic food. Henarrated our trip to Iowa onesummer, had a story for every exit onevery road, tooth-whistling …

“The Dinner Party” by Alexa Hailey
Fiction

“The Dinner Party” by Alexa Hailey

October 12, 2020March 15, 20221

We arrived right on time, although we had debated that. Isn’t fashionably late, well, fashionable? In the end, though, we were on time. Which was …

“The Destiny Tree” by Hibah Shabkhez
Poetry

“The Destiny Tree” by Hibah Shabkhez

October 2, 2020October 2, 20200

The destiny tree, Dark gnarled and secretly wick, Claws at you and me Across eye spaces Twisting phoenix-glass specks prance Bloated toad-faces Yearning for their …

“Those Black Americans” by Evelyn Umezinwa
Fiction

“Those Black Americans” by Evelyn Umezinwa

September 18, 2020May 10, 20220

My finger banged on the tiny doorbell. I paced back and forth trying not to fall off the tiny step. Finally, the door slowly creaked …

A Writer and Dungeons and Dragons by Melissa Reynolds
Newsletters

A Writer and Dungeons and Dragons by Melissa Reynolds

September 6, 2020September 23, 20200

I started playing Dungeons and Dragons (DnD) about three years ago. I didn’t know much about the game and approached it as something new to …

“1984” by DC Diamondopolous
Fiction

“1984” by DC Diamondopolous

August 28, 2020September 4, 20202

James, as the doctors and staff at St. Mark’s Regional Hospital in San Diego insisted on calling him, applied pancake make-up over the band-aid camouflaging …

“These fragments I have shored against my ruins” by Jie Wang
Fiction

“These fragments I have shored against my ruins” by Jie Wang

August 24, 2020January 10, 20211

We are all doomed to lose everything. I’ve lost three fingers, one arm, one eye. I’ve lost my family, my childhood home, my native tongue. …

“When My Ear Fell Off” by Stratos Moustakas & Dora Mezei
Fiction

“When My Ear Fell Off” by Stratos Moustakas & Dora Mezei

August 7, 2020March 15, 20221

When my ear fell off I first thought of the client delegation sitting at the conference room, waiting for the meeting to begin in earnest. …

“Dopo Mezzonatte” by Marina Kazakova
Poetry

“Dopo Mezzonatte” by Marina Kazakova

July 24, 2020August 24, 20201

Dopo mezzanotte! Dopo, dopo! The door pops open, out of the dust  the ocean unfolds under the ropewalker’s  high gloss  black shoes. He floats among …

“Death and Mercy” by Kim Malinowski
Poetry

“Death and Mercy” by Kim Malinowski

June 29, 2020August 19, 20200

She wasn’t a phoenix, but she knew ash. She painted herself with coals, with cinders. War paint disguising the woman of the woods. She felt …

Time in a Coronavirus World by Elena Lucia Perez
Newsletters

Time in a Coronavirus World by Elena Lucia Perez

June 6, 2020September 23, 20200

“Time is an illusion.” – Hue, from Avatar: The Last Airbender, “The Swamp” I don’t know about you, but I feel like the days this …

“Edges” By Kim Malinowski
Poetry

“Edges” By Kim Malinowski

May 18, 2020September 3, 20200

There used to be an edge where the world ended, where ships would tumult down cataracts into nothingness. There are places still, buffers and hallows …

“Cattail Confessions” by Hannah Melin
Fiction

“Cattail Confessions” by Hannah Melin

April 20, 2020January 10, 2021

I’ve fallen in love with all of them. How could I not? With their skin so soft I can watch it give way beneath my …

Preview: The Story That Folded Into Itself by Marina Shugrue
Newsletters

Preview: The Story That Folded Into Itself by Marina Shugrue

April 1, 2020September 23, 20200

There’s no getting around the fact that this has been a very unusual month. Here in the States, we’re facing the first impacts of COVID-19, …

“Tree Song” by Melissa Reynolds
Fiction

“Tree Song” by Melissa Reynolds

March 23, 2020March 15, 20221

I have stood for over a hundred years in this place, endured the idiots who link hands and try to encompass my bulk, observed the …

Why Do We Write? by Elena Lucia Perez
Newsletters

Why Do We Write? by Elena Lucia Perez

February 1, 2020September 23, 20200

Why do we write? I’ve been asking myself that lately because it’s been tough to find the motivation to do it. It’s not that I …

“So Dark, Up Above” by Emily Ruth Taylor
Fiction

“So Dark, Up Above” by Emily Ruth Taylor

December 23, 2019August 6, 20200

Sure, no one ever said that people were getting their powers from the rain. Tommy guessed it had something to do with all those big …

“Pink” by Izzy Martens
Fiction

“Pink” by Izzy Martens

December 9, 2019September 3, 20200

The small pink tube is pressed into the palm of my right hand. I am flicking the lid with my thumb, finding satisfaction in the …

Focusing on Your Creative Goals When You’ve Sold Out by Marina Shugrue
Newsletters

Focusing on Your Creative Goals When You’ve Sold Out by Marina Shugrue

December 9, 2019September 23, 20200

I’ve been a sellout since I was twenty-two, technically. That was the year I turned a seasonal copywriting job in the fashion industry into a …

“Barbed Wires” by Ria Banerjee
Poetry

“Barbed Wires” by Ria Banerjee

October 14, 2019August 29, 20200

Did you, my beloved, notice the barbed wiresthat run along the length of the city,to separate you from me?Such walls of divisiveness are man-made:penetrating your …

“The Neighborhood is Burning” by Kaileen Campbell
Poetry

“The Neighborhood is Burning” by Kaileen Campbell

September 2, 2019August 29, 20200

The house across from mehas caught aflameand taken it against water The firemen are comingtheir trucks yelling attheir speed. They are dressedin their shieldsand are …

“The Night the Billado Block Burned Down” by Elizabeth Gauffreau
Fiction

“The Night the Billado Block Burned Down” by Elizabeth Gauffreau

July 29, 2019September 1, 20202

Then the Billado Block burned down, and I had nowhere to live. “Well, shit,” I said to the guy standing next to me watching it …

“It was Slow” by Kaileen Campbell
Poetry

“It was Slow” by Kaileen Campbell

July 8, 2019March 15, 20220

I sat and held             the world’s coldest hand.One whose skin had been taken by ice. The palm of a dried …

“Reclamation” by Mallika Bhaumik
Poetry

“Reclamation” by Mallika Bhaumik

July 1, 2019August 19, 20200

Someday we might meet,when time has melted in us,our lives look like dried river beds Would you then recognise my face? My face might appear …

“some other nights” by Mallika Bhaumik
Poetry

“some other nights” by Mallika Bhaumik

May 27, 2019August 19, 20202

Nights are essays in loneliness words scrawled in the darknone to be retrieved, I stretch on the bed; disheveled like my hair,twinning with the night.My …

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