A good man
By Oye Scott — Two of my good girlfriends are dying. As I sit looking out the window watching the birds, squirrels and deer negotiate the
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literary
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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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- Feb 25
Until we can be who we are
By Clara Berut-Lhopital — I cannot continue to imagine a world where only some people are deserving of humanity, love and happiness.
- Jan 6
My TONGUE IS ALL I HAVE GOT
By Oteeyho Iro — I did not know
it's hellish to live on the other end of the gun, always on the target board,
that surviving is another
- Dec 17, 2022
They won't hear you
By Daun M. Wright — A life is in turmoil, cries for help in the deafening silence of the ignorance of others, in the avoidance of those in
- Nov 28, 2022
Drag Show
By Debbie Cutler — He came out as a man to perform in front of a crowd of those seeking inclusion all eyes upon him in his plain jeans and
- Oct 28, 2022
ROCK, RIVER, RAIL
By Sonali Gupta — Rock, River, Rail, On thy dry red soil, O Mother! And I would that my palm could feel the bareness arises within. O, well
- Oct 6, 2022
The Reason for Vases
By Ellen A. Grazioso — Humanity is a diverse bouquet. The less fortunate are no less worthy, no less beautiful. But for some, merciful
- Aug 17, 2022
“We The People”
By Abigail Flores — Rooted with time, and veins that sway the sky, I pray to go back. But every school makes me
Bleed white. And here, they
- Jun 30, 2022
Insoluble Mirage
By Thomas Piekarski — He handed over a brain of clay then left me sitting on a field of pink flame plenty teary. What meretricious waves
- May 23, 2022
If I knew then …
By Madge Kaplan — The woman at the typewriter, lost in thought, doesn’t know (or doesn’t care) that setting herself up in the front yard to
- Apr 24, 2022
Mexico's Missing Dead
By Hector Rodriguez — Hundreds of thousands have been murdered. Men, women young and old vanish. Drug cartels are merciless. Interference in
- Mar 31, 2022
Until You Are Prosecuted
By Hanan Kholoussy — How insecure must you be to gang up on her and take turns on her after you drugged her repeatedly. For despite all your
- Feb 21, 2022
Aesthetic Criteria
Santana Kamal — You can find murder ugly, but what if it saves you? An arc of abuse by precedented year - you turn into a beautiful monster.
- Dec 6, 2021
“Freedom Shadows” for Ahmaud Arbery
By Celucien Joseph — If freedom were a color, what will be its preference? Will it be brown, black, white, ultraviolet, or no color?
- Nov 26, 2021
Rather an Intermediate State
By Laszlo Aranyi (Frater Azmon) — In the doorway, the town dogcatcher, "Dogie" utters: "Gentlemen, I have told you before, you could learn
- Oct 6, 2021
Yahrzeit
Jeremy Nathan Marks — I discover that in his foresight he has paid for bulbs for my father my mother, my sister, and me. He tells me had I
- Aug 28, 2021
Rotate
By Gale Acuff — When my soul sails to Heaven like a kite to be judged, my soul's the kite, not Heaven that is, I'll close my eyes,
- Jul 30, 2021
The Stream of Contradictions
By Sarah Birnbach — Every time we start for the river of equality and justice, we deviate down a crooked jaded path, twisting and winding
- Jul 16, 2021
Reconciling Silence
By Philip Vassallo — You and I stand still, deep in the forest on the path toward the clearing, waiting for a tree to fall, but all we hear
- Jun 16, 2021
Dawns 21 Haiku
By Jake Cosmos Aller — 2021 Dawns. Politics are still uncertain. Thousands still are dying. The madness never ends it seems. Consuming us
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