Erratic Orbit
By Gary Beck — The sun rises late,
sets earlier, but some of us hardly notice, bound to city cycles, wake, rise, hygiene, rush to work on
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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.
Explore the themes by prompt below:
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- Dec 6, 2022
Police Pulling Me Over
By Karol Nielsen — I needed a car for my new job as managing editor of a weekly newspaper covering murders, drugs, schools, and communities
- Nov 12, 2022
The Darkest Everything
By Taté Walker — am buried so deep
and dark in your glorious universe, the obsidian space around everything so rich with unexplored life.
- Oct 2, 2022
My Strong Fingers
By Audrey Geliga — My strong fingers have held my children when they needed me the most and in times when I just wanted a hug and to feel
- Sep 3, 2022
A Dawn with You
By Shalini Yadav — A striking crack of dawn at the parapet, removing the murk within one more day, neat and beautiful,
brightening further
- Aug 6, 2022
Privilege
By Riyam Kafri AbuLaban — It is easy for privilege to declare, from its soapbox, that which is ethical, and that which is acceptable. But
- Jun 19, 2022
Summer of (20)69
By Ian Willey — Imagine how that scene would have played out if Adams and his ne'er-do-well friends were Latino, Middle Eastern, or Black.
- May 1, 2022
The Right Side of White
By T. A. Johnson — Understanding the complexity of being Black in America is hard for most White People to see, but it’s hard for anyone to
- Apr 9, 2022
5 Tankas
By Sergio Inestrosa — Born among the poor. God himself. Serene night ... To guide shepherds, the brightness of a star. Very early in the
- Mar 28, 2022
Roles We Play
By Jeremiah K Durick — Little more than a toddler he wanted to do the work we did – dishes, vacuuming, raking and
anything else we were
- Mar 17, 2022
BABY BOOMERANG
By Mark Blickley — My Baby Boomer generation has been weaponized into a baby boomerang that cuts down all who are different then we are.
- Feb 5, 2022
Overlooked Privilege
By Nicole Rhodes — The day he forgets me, the day he talks to me like just another waitress, like just another friendly stranger, I don't
- Dec 22, 2021
When The Tables Turn
By Sydney Dabney — Imagine if you were in our shoes. Imagine if the roles reversed. Us, the oppressor. And you, the oppressed. The ones who
- Nov 6, 2021
Mirrors
By Pooja Sinha — When I look in the mirror, I see that young girl, acting in her favorite green dress in a theater production in School. She
- Sep 26, 2021
Come with me
By Raluca Buttner — Come step out onto the clouds with me. Why be so afraid to leave the world behind, with its roofs and screened windows?
- Jul 13, 2021
I Don't Have To Be Amanda Gorman
By Noelle Sterne — A series of (female) nemeses, killer weeds, plagues from college on, each marking my insecurity, guilt, deficiency,
- Jun 30, 2021
My White Privilege
By Robert Knox — My white privilege gets me around town, protects me in my careless teens. Imprinted clearly in the photo on my driver’s
- May 27, 2021
White Flowers
By Leonore Wilson — In the foothills of May, these wild ones, long lost lovers, racemes of floral buds, water-tight, grass like and a few
- May 1, 2021
Color Blind!
By Jyoti Nair — Especially on Holi, make me color-blind. Liberate me from color-cacophony and clangor. They have been bludgeoning my
- Feb 25, 2021
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
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