Kindness
By Deb Casey — Kindness has transported me through this arduous journey. The genealogist, in her soft voice, carefully explained her
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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 8
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 6
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 2
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
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
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
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 22
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
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 14
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
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 8
Aftermath
By April Boyington Wall — During Covid 19 I learned that the term aftermath was apparently originally an agricultural one, referring to an
- Jul 3
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
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 27
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.
- Jun 23
Embark
By Rose Loving — There was so much nourishment growing in that valley. The wild leeks we ate every day with eggs at dawn. The coltsfoot we
- Jun 18
I Ardently Feel
By Ashok Chakravarthy Tholana — A spiritual thirst, an unending quest lurks in the heart at the forefront. Neither can I resist, nor can I
- Jun 16
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
- Jun 14
I Am From
By Debra Dolan — I'm from the lonely and misunderstood. From the "I don't believe you" and "I hope you have a daughter just like you" to
- Jun 11
Living the Good Life
By Leah Bleiberg — To this day, I'm not sure what possessed me to answer the dentist the way I did. I think it was the feisty part of me