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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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Jul 19, 2020
Trying to Get Over While the World Drags Me Under
By Adrian S. Potter — Ask me for honesty and I’ll supply more truth than you could ever handle,


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 11, 2020
I Feel Like a Sandwich
By Arianna Sebo — How do you feel? I feel like a vase of flowers wide mouth clay vase, Muted mud colours


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?


Jul 6, 2020
Fear of Assault
By Dee Allen — I fear sudden weakness, I fear an assault, Worse than a hate crime, Worse than the occult


Jul 1, 2020
Warm Light Wandering
By Sylan Lewis — The tension starts in my jaw, as it always does. A clenched-teeth premonition of an


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


Jun 23, 2020
Coronavirus Has Nothing on Retirement
By John C. Krieg — This Thing is Getting Serious. In all seriousness, I know this is a legitimate National Emergency
And I must do what I c


Jun 19, 2020
The Patrick Hutchinson Photo
By Carol Keegan — Who are you, Patrick Hutchinson? How did your personal code of morality become so richly complex?


Jun 18, 2020
Migraine in 10 Movements
By Megan D. Henson — Sometimes I imagine I have swallowed a little yellow canary and he’s nesting in my larynx.


Jun 17, 2020
Black & White
By W. Jack Savage — It's funny how you remember the exact locations of where you were when you saw something or heard something for the


Jun 16, 2020
I Am Angry
By Michael T. Smith — I am angry, and I do not like being who I am. I do not like
more than I can list here or


Jun 15, 2020
Breath • 呼吸 • Respiro • نفس
By Erin Liana Johnson —
I am newly conscious of my breath. I am picturing how lbronchioles and alveoli look


Jun 13, 2020
Rapunzel
By Sarah Henry — At a museum, the guard said I had beautiful hair. The color and curl were natural.


Jun 11, 2020
Fossil F-Ups
By Gerard Sarnat — Perhappened portmanteau
of frenzy-fed megachurch’s hifalutin well as cavalier


Jun 7, 2020
Grateful in the Time of COVID
By Linda McCauley Freeman — I am grateful for the pause, the time we have asked for all our adult lives for nowhere to


Jun 4, 2020
Zoom Fatigue
By Beth Kalikstein — Setting in is the Zoom fatigue. Since all day technology is out of my league, professionals have


Jun 1, 2020
Managing COVID-19 Through a Notepad
By Susan Erickson — April 25: “Your Mom has a temperature, probably COVID.”


Jun 1, 2020
Not Drowing
By Melissa Fritchle — My friend texted How’s your breathing? I replied, I am ok. Are you ok? Yes, he said.
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