Journal

CATEGORIES by PROMPT

We publish writing using a series of prompts as an entry point for self-inquiry, exploring emotions, personal histories, shared truths, joy, grief, shame, and those themes that matter most to us in our hearts. Explore the categories by prompt below:

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Covid-19
Who am I today?
Grateful
Ask Me
Will not rest
White Privilege
No one noticed
If only
Despite

a day ago

Petals

By I.B. Rad — Requiescat in pace, thereafter were you cremated with that pale residuum of being, your ashes, strewn over a radiantly

7 days ago

O Survivor!

By M. Fatima — O Survivor! I hear you! Tell me your story, loud and clear, I hear you! I hear your screams, I hear them loud. I hear your

Apr 5

Ask Me About My Narcoleptic Daydreams

By Reyna N. Vasquez Bisono — My narcolepsy makes me crave sleep, but the world makes me embrace it. Why face your problems, when you can

Mar 30

My Dreams

By Anita Nahal — No one noticed that the warm whiff of deep green mint sauce in roasted brick red potatoes speckled with a generous

Mar 26

Turn the Corner

By Marjorie Moorhead — Goodbye 2020. I’ve eaten my fill of snickerdoodles, gingerbread, chocolate chip cookies, yeast bread ladened with

Mar 20

The House

By Anita Kestin — I have not traveled that route in some time. That place belongs to a time when we thought we were all healthy and when

Mar 15

A Recovering Apologist

By Liz Clark — I’ve always apologized even if the issue hadn’t been my fault. Last year—I stopped apologizing. I stopped hanging my head in

Mar 11

Paths

By Robert Tosi — No one noticed that the lights were on. No one noticed that the plumbing worked, the supermarket was stocked, the church

Mar 7

Gratitude

By Jeremy Nathan Marks — When I was about to turn thirteen I was bullied by a classmate. Since we were the two tallest kids in our seventh

Mar 3

Another Lockdown

By Richard LeDue — My window is dirty: tiny smudges that tried to get in are gone to bug heaven, where the insect god is the size of my

Feb 28

Making Ourselves Better

By Rose H. Wharton — Because our whole reality is energy-based, when one person starts to shift their inner-self for the better, everyone

Feb 25

Movie Screen

By Sarah Bellum Mental — The kids ask me why is it, we always die first in the movies? I get to stay until the end of the movie. The end

Feb 22

Notes from an Agnostic

By Susan Hand — god: I’m going to strip you of your capital letters, if that’s ok with you. If only god would reveal himself, in the flash

Feb 19

Adulting

By Terri Lee — Despite…47 years in this world, two children, and four house purchases later, I still don’t feel like I know what it means to

Feb 16

I am a Woman Worried

By Barbara Simmons — I am a grandmother who may not see my granddaughter until 2022. I worry that she may not remember me, she only four

Feb 13

Birthday Eight

By J Snow — No presents, no birthday cake, no streamers or balloons, I push scraps of last night's boiled chicken dinner around in my bowl—

Feb 11

Let's Start Here

By Thomas Elson — He saw his daughter decades later, when she - now a grandmother was asked the same question and emerged as the woman who

Feb 9

Tick-Tock Clocks

By Áine Greaney — The clock on my kitchen wall is starting to drive me mad. Oh, I’ve had tick-tock clocks before. In kitchens and bedrooms;

Feb 7

The Night

By Pawel Markiewicz — If it becomes darkly in me, the meek dream comes into being almost never, the mind sleeps in, the Dark the night

Feb 5

Some Days

By Abha Das Sarma — I ache, for voices. Angry, academic, anguished. To drown in, to hear myself. Some days, I ache for age, that I could

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CATEGORIES by PROMPT

Petals

O Survivor!

Ask Me About My Narcoleptic Daydreams

My Dreams

Turn the Corner

The House

A Recovering Apologist

Paths

Gratitude

Another Lockdown

Making Ourselves Better

Movie Screen

Notes from an Agnostic

Adulting

I am a Woman Worried

Birthday Eight

Let's Start Here

Tick-Tock Clocks

The Night

Some Days

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