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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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Mar 11, 2021
Paths
By Robert Tosi — No one noticed that the lights were on. No one noticed that the plumbing worked, the supermarket was stocked, the church


Mar 7, 2021
Gratitude
By Jeremy Nathan Marks — When I was about to turn thirteen I was bullied by a classmate. Since we were the two tallest kids in our seventh


Mar 3, 2021
Another Lockdown
By Richard LeDue — My window is dirty:
tiny smudges that tried to get in are gone to bug heaven, where the insect god is the size of my


Feb 28, 2021
Making Ourselves Better
By Rose H. Wharton — Because our whole reality is energy-based, when one person starts to shift their inner-self for the better, everyone


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


Feb 22, 2021
Notes from an Agnostic
By Susan Hand — god: I’m going to strip you of your capital letters, if that’s ok with you. If only god would reveal himself, in the flash


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 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


Feb 13, 2021
Birthday Eight
By J Snow — No presents, no birthday cake, no streamers or balloons, I push scraps of last night's boiled chicken dinner around in my bowl—


Feb 11, 2021
Let's Start Here
By Thomas Elson — He saw his daughter decades later, when she - now a grandmother was asked the same question and emerged as the woman who


Feb 9, 2021
Tick-Tock Clocks
By Áine Greaney — The clock on my kitchen wall is starting to drive me mad. Oh, I’ve had tick-tock clocks before. In kitchens and bedrooms;

Feb 6, 2021
The Night
By Pawel Markiewicz — If it becomes darkly in me, the meek dream comes into being almost never, the mind sleeps in,
the Dark the night


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


Feb 2, 2021
If Only I Moved by Instinct
By D.R. James — Life has been a grand migration to where you are today! Well known wisdom. I didn't know! Otherwise, when those raggedy

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 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

Jan 25, 2021
Religiously
By Gale Acuff — I'll go to Heaven when I die to be judged saint, or damn-near, or sinner and then be kept up yonder or booted be-low to the


Jan 20, 2021
Walk
By Philip Berry — A murdered tree throws splayed roots in welcome, the grain revealed in a lightning rent swerves and curls in ways that


Jan 16, 2021
The Sour Cherry Tree During Quarantine
By Claire Doll — For a few several months, I watched the world from my window only. If I woke up early enough, the sunrise waited for me, a

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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