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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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Jan 22, 2022
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 22, 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 13, 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 1, 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 4, 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


Feb 19, 2021
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 5, 2021
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

Jan 30, 2021
I Won't Lose Myself
By Mark Tulin — Despite everything, I’m still here. I know because I can hear my breath, feel my pulse, see with human eyes. I know I am

Jan 13, 2021
Vocal Exercise Under Pressure
By Madge Kaplan — When it’s my turn, I’m at a loss for a tragic story so make one up. I falsely proclaim that my vocally talented older
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