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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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Aug 23, 2021
Sparrows, Daddy
By Kunal Mehra — You may never read this letter, my unborn son, but I still want to write it. You were never expressed. You never came to

Aug 21, 2021
Keeping Cool
By Eric Burgoyne — Fred was washing his new Subaru in the driveway in front of the house. A meteorite crashed down in his backyard before he


Aug 18, 2021
Walking Stories
By Kahlil Crawford — I initially wrote because I was enamored with the idea of poetry and later hip-hop. However, my first meaningful

Aug 15, 2021
Electrocuting the Ants
By David J. Bookbinder — I did terrible things to insects as a child. Like many other boys growing up with nothing better to do, I tore the


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 9, 2021
Kindness
By Deb Casey — Kindness has transported me through this arduous journey. The genealogist, in her soft voice, carefully explained her

Aug 7, 2021
Hatred Wraps the World in Blindness
By Vanessa Jakse — No one noticed the rainy day, the sky’s dark wrath, the lightning’s shaft, the rain that pelted down in anger. No one


Aug 5, 2021
First Wave of COVID–19 through the Lens of a Child from a Middle Class Family in Kerala, South India
By Maya M — Agasthya understood that something serious was happening around him. Dad and Mom stayed at home and they did not send both his


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..."


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 28, 2021
Let’s Talk About Fat
By Susan Anmuth — What if the hours I’ve consumed with diets, food plans, new bright starts, still missing the mud pie at Henry’s End in

Jul 24, 2021
Daniel Sklar Likes
By Daniel Sklar —
Did you know that Daniel Sklar likes drifting in a canoe on Chebacco Lake? He also likes riding a bicycle, especially to


Jul 21, 2021
I Just Need My Hand Held
By Christine Carpenter — I am in one of the final prenatal appointments of my pregnancy and because I have something called marginal cord


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

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,


Jul 12, 2021
Falling in Love
By Abrielle — June is a special month. I feel summer setting in. Falling in love is like summer. Watching the sun set, saying goodbye to the


Jul 7, 2021
Aftermath
By April Boyington Wall — During Covid 19 I learned that the term aftermath was apparently originally an agricultural one, referring to an


Jul 2, 2021
Five Vanilla Cones
By Linda LeMoine — My mind flashes a memory of a mini me. I’m about five years old and we are on our weekly drive to visit cousins. Dressed


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

Jun 26, 2021
The Problem with Chivalry
By Alan Cohen — There are more scars on my heart inflicted by women than there are days in the year. It is better not to love them.
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