The glass shatters with a painful Nerve-jangling, ear-splitting crack Lethal shards skitter across the floor like bugs And catch the light a few hundred ways. …
January Writing Challenge
Welcome, Germies, to this month’s writing challenge! This challenge will begin today and will end January 31st. However, you are welcome to come back anytime to complete …
Words by Veronica Tyler
There were so many words. She could feel them thick in the air, fluttering over her skin and getting tangled in her hair People passing …
Self-Portrait by Isabella Lewis
Diverging into crevices, rotting away, hidden. An intellectual decay, a sophisticated savage, deploring for substance, my sustenance. Longing for a cover to devour, for a …
Vanity’s Shroud by Dana Li
What a strange old world, where I’ve got one heart but a thousand faces, I’ve got a hundred friends but one ticket to Vegas. What …
Hortensia’s Speech by Farah Ghafoor
out of the cement the plaster come unholy diamonds. these slate men pointing fingers at priestesses goddesses hookers in silver. water pools from the salivating …
Everything and Everything by Asma Gaba
Sometimes I think I’m okay. But other (most) times I am an enormous mass, a large amount of misery. It eats me up and breaks …
Being Mary by Shelby Padgett
The first year I was asked, I was in fifth grade. A good friend of mine had told me minutes earlier that she hoped to …
In My Neighborhood by Julia Nunnally Duncan
There were many mothers in my neighborhood: Beulah, who tended to my foot on a summer day when I stepped on a shard of broken …