Pandemic Protocol
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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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- May 26, 2021
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, 2021
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, 2021
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, 2021
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, 2021
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, 2021
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, 2021
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, 2021
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;
- Jan 16, 2021
The Sour Cherry Tree During Quarantine
By Claire Doll — For a few several months, I watched the world from my window only. If I woke up early enough, the sunrise waited for me, a
- Jan 5, 2021
I Refused to Wear a Mask
By Priya Patel — High risk, low on practical common sense, I would strut around, basically a spokeswoman for COVID to attack. It took many
- Dec 20, 2020
Covid Christmas
By Samuel Strathman — Haven’t seen a tall stack of Christmas trees all year,
just their shadows looming, miserly watchmen scrutinizing the
- Dec 17, 2020
Fear
By Sergio Inestrosa — The persistent fear of contagion has robbed me of sleep, and the hours in my bed have become a torment, a sea of
- Dec 1, 2020
She's No Longer My Best Friend
By Dipti B. — We asked and we claimed we were fine, however, I am pretty sure we both knew we were not really fine. Seriously, no one is
- Nov 24, 2020
This is the Year the World Cried: No More
By Diane Van Hook — As I pass months at home, out of work, out of money, and almost out of hope, I watch the numbers of the dead ratchet up
- Oct 13, 2020
Twine
By Cheryl Caesar — The Civil War has twice returned. Age and gender are an illusion. “Tell me why the ivy twines..." sing the contrapuntal
- Oct 6, 2020
General Corona Appears in a Vision
By Jake Cosmos Aller — One day I was half napping, watching the President drone on about him being a war time president battling
- Oct 1, 2020
To-Do List
By Jackie Bluu — To-Do List (Day 5) - Wake up - Brush teeth - Eat food - Do work.
- Sep 14, 2020
Split
By Abha Das Sarma — She had waited for this very moment, Rising heartbeat and racing expectation, Now would be, the end, Of obscured nights,
- Sep 8, 2020
Walk on Water
By Jeremy Nathan Marks — I am standing in the middle of the Detroit River, my mother asking me from the Michigan shore, do you know where