O Survivor!
By M. Fatima — O Survivor! I hear you!
Tell me your story, loud and clear, I hear you! I hear your screams, I hear them loud. I hear your
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Expressive
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The
Premier
online
literary
journal
for
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.
Explore the themes by prompt below:
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- Mar 15, 2021
A Recovering Apologist
By Liz Clark — I’ve always apologized even if the issue hadn’t been my fault. Last year—I stopped apologizing. I stopped hanging my head in
- Feb 16, 2021
I am a Woman Worried
By Barbara Simmons — I am a grandmother who may not see my granddaughter until 2022. I worry that she may not remember me, she only four
- Jan 28, 2021
Dear Me
By Julianne Carew — I know you think your life is over. It even looks like it’s over. You’re on the floor of a hotel room, covered in dried
- Dec 9, 2020
Today, I am the Girl who is Free
By Linda M. Crate — Being a woman and a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, having Black family members and friends, having friends of
- Nov 11, 2020
A Home in the Waves
By Michael Luketich — I start with a confession: I started with a lie. I am not Michael Luketich: not on any government document, not to any
- Oct 25, 2020
Healing from the Ground Up
By Barrie Levine — I worked for hours each day, just like he did, nourishing my shattered heart with fresh air, sunlight, and memory
- Oct 7, 2020
Once
By Dorinda McDowell — I’ve not had a bad life. But I’m not the girl I used to be. Once, nothing phased me; I’d face life with a strong smile
- Sep 22, 2020
Under You
By Doc Krinberg — Eyes challenging dark laughing contempt, lapis iris holds me fast—Caught in the riptide of your eyes...my needs
- Sep 13, 2020
Today I Am
By Amy Christman — A dimpled copper can that once held cookies, a gift from a friend, now newly planted, sits on the deck’s lower stair,
- Sep 9, 2020
Death of She
By Jennifer Brown Banks — Who am I today? A survivor,
I am less than I was yesterday, Yet more than I thought I could be,
- Sep 6, 2020
Hidden
By Donna Kmetz — I think too much, Processing every syllable, Certain there’s a hidden meaning, Desperate to understand
- Aug 25, 2020
Moving On
By Stephen E. Mead — I imagined perfect goodness an empty room completely one color. There anyone would be welcome.
- Aug 14, 2020
Falling
By Anita Kestin — Yesterday, it was the first time in my life that I fell at a time when I was not running fast. In fact, this time
- Aug 6, 2020
Loneliness
By Ojo Olumide Emmanuel — I lost my first tooth when I first learned how to stretch my cheeks in smiles & laughter.
- Aug 3, 2020
Myself, Again
By Maureen Sullivan Keleher — I am my mother. I am not my mother. I want to keep everyone happy. I want to speak up and
- Jul 18, 2020
Nobody
By Áine Greaney — Who am I here? Nobody. In fact, I have come here to be nobody. I have come here because I
- Jul 10, 2020
Late
By Gary Beck — Trump shut down the government,
so we’ve all been furloughed.
Now what do I do without a salary?
- Jun 29, 2020
Don't You Understand?
By Jenny Ham — Midday tides clashing against verona beaches, your ocean eyes, sand-colored skin, golden laughter
- Jun 27, 2020
Chrysalis
By Lynne Weatherill — Today I am a butterfly in the making. I am in my chrysalis. I am probably made of goop
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