Dandelion
By Lisa Lucca — Despite the small voice inside my head I grew used to hearing since I was an outspoken child, the voice from my family that
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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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- Jul 10
Dear Ummm,
By Tahirah Walker — I can't bring myself to finish writing your name. Like you couldn't bring yourself to finish loving me. You know I never
- Jun 17
Move On
By Lynn White — It may not look that way but I've done more than survive my time in this city. It may not look that way
but I’ve done more
- Jun 11
LIST’D (Love Is Stronger Than Death)
By Miko Reed Collins — A father is half of the air that their children breathe. It’s axiomatic. Believe I love you. Beyond cancer. I love
- May 18
Bitter Hearts
By Thadeus Emmanuel — When our hearts are bitter and tears oozing like spring water, you will find it best to cry, harder with more nerves
- Apr 29
A God Thing—The Drum Roll of Synchronicity
By Laura L. Engel — I know you don’t love me. You never give me the attention I deserve. Good luck finding some guy who wants a woman like
- Apr 11
Burial
By U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo — MAYBE blood will be sacrifice to the God’s of Pain and Suffering. Maybe this blood will scorch the earth
- Mar 13
Your Reflection
By Rachel Gomez — Would it remind you to nourish yourself, after you promised to never eat again. Because of how guilty you felt after last
- Feb 15
Playground Angst
By Elizabeth Jaeger — Yes, I watched my son hit your son. You thought I was standing off to the side reading a book. But I was watching
- Jan 22
Bairro
By Oksana N Mauricio — The child I once was recollecting every last smell from guava, juiciness and mangoes on my mother’s tree. My eyes
- Dec 27, 2021
In Consultation
By Heidi Selig — Anytime anyone expressed a feeling in my familial domicile, my mother would scream, “What do you want from me? Go and see a
- Nov 19, 2021
Despite this Pandemic
By Sinéad MacDevitt — Despite this pandemic, I'm at work. Despite this pandemic, I'm on a sabbatical. Despite this pandemic, I'm constantly
- Oct 23, 2021
Addiction
By Bhuwan Thapaliya — He comes home late in the evening only to slump in front of the television, often with
an alcoholic drink. Her
- Oct 9, 2021
Once, Subdivided
By D.R. James — Like self-exiles, I was proximal; I was blue spot-lit, gray spot-lit, somebody’s sector. I nudged slushy snow by nose and
- Sep 11, 2021
More Tender Mystery
By Rebecca Jane — He promised their minds would birth new stars, then pushed her off the flight over the Eastern Abyss of Abuse. She landed
- Aug 14, 2021
The Orphanage
By Richard Krause — Perils of the orphanage: The past has a hold on you where you can’t even identify whose hands gently removed your
- Aug 2, 2021
Reclaim My Space
By Anita Nahal — The West taught me a thing or two about regarding and guarding personal space. "Don’t push me too much. Don’t come..."
- Jun 5, 2021
My Exhaustion
By Christi Jeane — "Exhaustion is killing my creativity." This thought crept into my head about six weeks ago, and it won’t leave me alone.
- May 15, 2021
Absurdity
By Bryan Damien Nichols — Listen carefully: have you ever been told to say—and to explain in depth—you took no action, whether now or in
- Apr 16, 2021
Petals
By I.B. Rad — Requiescat in pace,
thereafter were you cremated with that pale residuum of being, your ashes,
strewn over a radiantly