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The Forgotten Portrait by Anna Franzen
This story is one of the February Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story.
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In the back of an art museum, hanging lopsided...
February Writing Challenge: Honorable Mentions — Annaliese Baker, Wolff Nikoletta, and Marie Meer
These entries from February's challenge were selected as Honorable Mentions. Those who completed this challenge are now encouraged to share their stories in...
Hard Todays but Optimistic Tomorrows by Emma Jensen
“I’m okay.”
I never thought the words I absolutely hate the most would be coming out of my mouth. They sound so helpless to me,...
Lost and Found by Alyssa Ahle
The following scene is an excerpt from the play Lost and Found by Alyssa Ahle.
UNREQUITED LOVE: A young woman who carts around her old crushes...
Insufficient by Arlene Antoinette
I awake in tears,
crying for the things
I want to do for you.
Crying for those things
I cannot do for you.
My flaws more evident this morning
than...
Healing a Decaying Body by Nazanin Soghrati
The year cancer floods my grandfather’s lungs
I unspool myself on the dinner table
and let my body decay in the open air
I wring my hands...
You Just Don’t Get It by Michael Pasley
Our street, Milwaukee Avenue, a place of happy couples. Everyone here is with someone else. Young men wearing bright colorful beanies laugh while strolling...
Dream by Julia Nunnally Duncan
In my dream
she is a baby still,
cradled in my arms,
sheltered from any harm
that might come her way.
As I hold her,
she looks up at me,
and...
Counting Stars by Drishika Nadella
“Everything that drowns me makes me wanna fly” – Counting Stars, One Republic
Every day, when I go to school, I button my father’s plaid...
How a Libra Copes with Aries Season by Libby Root
January 27 was the five year anniversary
of the first poem I ever wrote you. So, basically,
my love for you could have raised a kindergartener...
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