Don’t you see? Your body sprouts out flowers from the crevices in which the demons broke you. The tallied marks that line your skin show …
Notes on Loving the Girl Stained with Scars and Depression by Megan Tyler
Lend her your hope; she will label it as her own and attach to you like velcro. Don’t treat her like a thunderstorm; she is …
The Difference by Kayla Wheeler
The photographs of our childhood sit crooked in their frames like baby teeth. On holidays, or dinner parties, or when the plumber comes to fix …
Red Jacket by Daniela Sordillo
I saw you today. You looked different to the last time I’d seen you. You looked different. But as we sat upstairs on the cold …
Please Don’t Go by Jerri Sparks
I’m haunted by her last words “Please don’t go” As I slowly backed my car down her driveway. The look of deep pain owned …
Cohabitation by Kathryn Merwin
There is a humming time. Morning slips through the slats of the blinds, stretches sleep from grey heat across his face. Breathing in, breathing out …
Road Trip with Gordon by Lori Werner
Somewhere in Indiana a mother pulls her children out of the creek, wringing them like dirty dishrags. A man cracks open his last beer on …
For You by Caroline Rothstein
. I want to melt purple violets and yellow roses into the arch of your back and run daisies over the course of your childhood, …
Rebel Poem by Arielle Trager
My dad tells me that writing short stories is like walking into a room full of furniture, weaving between the tables and chairs and leaving …