Flatbush Food Co-Op
By Ivy Raff — We came to know each other in these days, idly rolling the rickety red powder-coated shopping cart back and forth over cracked
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Expressive
Writing
JOURNAL OF
EXPRESSIVE WRITING
THEMES by PROMPT
We publish writing using a series of prompts as an entry point for exploring emotions, personal histories, shared truths, joy, grief, shame, and those themes that matter most to us in our hearts.
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- Nov 9
Pandemic Haibun
By Deborah Bacharach — I want to hug Marcie in her orange home-knit sweater. I can see her now coming down Greenwood past the buff work-out
- Oct 30
Pandemic Wishes
By Anangsha Haldar — Glass rimmed, venous wings hang like paper kites, flittering anxiously, contemplating release from the narrow
- Oct 8
Walking Down the Street
By Diane Kendig — I am stopped by a man who wants to know if my hat is for Navy. “No, it’s my dad’s Army Air Corps hat,” I say, hold it at
- Sep 30
My Young Nephew
By REN — Having been privileged to receive and finish education years before the pandemic, I sometimes worry for my young nephew. He's
- Sep 8
What the Sheltering Do
By Lana Hechtman Ayers — Turnips are all I eat for the fifth night this week
because the market is out of everything,
and facial tissues
- Aug 30
The Housing Crises is Real
By Victoria Lambert — I received a letter from my landlord's attorney dated April 14, 2020 that stated I should pay my past due rent within
- Aug 6
First Wave of COVID–19 through the Lens of a Child from a Middle Class Family in Kerala, South India
By Maya M — Agasthya understood that something serious was happening around him. Dad and Mom stayed at home and they did not send both his
- Jul 22
I Just Need My Hand Held
By Christine Carpenter — I am in one of the final prenatal appointments of my pregnancy and because I have something called marginal cord
- Jul 8
Aftermath
By April Boyington Wall — During Covid 19 I learned that the term aftermath was apparently originally an agricultural one, referring to an
- Jun 9
Covid in a Bell Jar
By Teresa van Luyk — I met my cottage neighbor, Joe, on the beach a month or so ago, before this latest stay-at-home order, and we caught up
- Jun 1
Pandemic Protocol
By Nancy Smiler Levinson — One of my reserved books is ready at curbside pickup. I phone for a date. Press one.
Name check. ID card check
- May 26
Common Sense
By Steve Bailey — As one who has stayed home and ventured out for only food and medical needs for the last year and on those occasions wore
- May 18
The Sky in California
By Sarah Henry — The sky looks a citrus shade since the inferno keeps blazing. A fault line runs across the state where thousands die from
- May 4
April 2020: Quarantine, Week Five
By Magdalena Bartkowska — Today, I yelled at my eight-year-old son for doing a math problem wrong and refusing to try it my way. My four
- Apr 27
Masks
By Jeremiah K Durick — Bill brought masks the other day, sat in his car in the driveway and visited a bit, thought we’d need masks if we
- Mar 29
Vietnam Memories
By John L. Swainston — We learned it was to late to say: "Hell no I won't go!" We had learned to shoot straight. We found our need to sin,
- 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 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 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;