If asked to describe your flaws, I would say that you never think of the power behind your words. You think that telling me you’re …
Barrier Gods by Chloe Barreau
The idea of writing a poem on the inside of an envelope — instead of a notebook — seems romantic after binging on fiction and …
i love you like by Lydia Wang
i love you like dark rain muddy feet like melting to sleep and into nightmares in which you are here and not here and either …
Memoirs of a Bibliophile by Hana Tzou
Her blood is saturated with sunbeams and her bones brittle thin and from her skin arises the musky scent of paper and smoky vanilla fire. …
Eighteen by Phoebe Lyons
eighteen shades I am eighteen shades of blue eighteen shades and my kneecaps they’re throbbing my wrists my veins my eighteen shades eighteen I am …
there must be somewhere better (november 2011) by Rona Wang
November means sputtering rain that has no energy left for desperation, myths woven into cartilage sidewalks like hemp. A rush of street veins, the trains …
A Taste for Blood by Seanna Pratt
It was another summer where I was waiting to find him, the sparkling apparition. All wide eyed, shoulders like concrete. They said I was wrong …
Love Is an Investment by Nahal Amouzadeh
love is an investment when he says all the right things, look into your heart like you would your wallet and count the good memories …
Starfish by Courtney Birst
They held it high above their heads, hoisted their prickly trophy up, mouths open in triumph. It was bigger than my hand, bigger than your …