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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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Jul 4, 2024
Smile
By Sushant Thapa — I can smile with the sun. By the time the moon rises, I can still carry on the game of smiling. The thunder has the light
Jul 2, 2024
To the Boy I Saw Picking Up Leaves in the Park on the Way Home from Church
By Brittany Casselman — After watching you in the park on that chilly Sunday afternoon, I followed your example and found a leaf of my own.
Jul 1, 2024
Anosmia
By Amy Mariaskin — Bloodhounds can smell history. Overlaying past on present: 300 million scent receptors and a face to gather them. My nose
Jun 26, 2024
Passions
By N.T. Chambers — He knew her before she was born, in a way that drowning men know the sea - flailing without hope, surrendering without
Jun 23, 2024
Tomorrow
By Jennifer Trieckel — The stillness of the day, bright and clean, full of possibilities and opportunities, ignored and broken by a
Jun 20, 2024
RT-PCR test
By Sandip Saha — I saw how much you can take on yourself, untiring in the adventurous tour we ventured into. RT-PCR and Rapid Antigen tests
Jun 16, 2024
Target Range
By Holly Day — She held the gun in her hand and imagined she was the prostitute she’d read about in the newspaper, knew that if she was that
Jun 13, 2024
A CHEF OF SORTS
By Tim Suermondt — The noodles beginning to boil, meat simmering in the pan and the already made salad sparkles—as I remember my friend who
Jun 9, 2024
My Race to Self-Improvement
By Rowan Moskowitz — Whenever I look at myself, I can’t help cringe at my reflection, the flaws instantly popping out thanks to my already
Jun 6, 2024
Shadowing Friendship
By Rajendra Ojha (Nayan) — Friendship cannot be maintained like a nail and a finger by everyone, and cooperation with a living soul is
Jun 3, 2024
Stigma
By Brighid Aime — Stigma is a force in much need of recourse, drawn by the masses, carried through systems and classes. Sensitive. Soulful.
May 31, 2024
No One Noticed The Noise
By Lynn White — She lay there still, quiet in her flesh, and her covering of skin though her heart was drumming loudly and in her head she
May 28, 2024
CLICK, CLICK, CLICK (The Photographer’s Song)
By Vicki L W Graff — I photograph whatever I see. An insect, a building, a rock or a tree. Nothing escapes the lens through which I see, my
May 25, 2024
Shuffling to Fortune in Bombay
By Tim Campbell — Pilgrims shuffle in quiet grace, like a sentence of hope a thousand syllables long. They trek on a causeway over the
May 22, 2024
Soul Mechanic
By John Swainston — Visited many places in my life. There are those that I remember and some forgotten or wish I could. There is a place I
May 19, 2024
7 Quips from the Country Club deep in the South
By W.M. Odell — A pestering gold ringed bee finally rests, poolside…buzzing while sipping on a chlorine martini. Egotistic waves trade wind
May 15, 2024
Purple Season
By Genevieve S. Aguinaldo — It was 4 am when you told me that you had the virus. How can you tell me not to panic? We are separated by nine
May 12, 2024
Mom
By Carl Scharwath — Dim light paints the evening scene. She sits alone, a single mom with burdens akin to shadows, always behind her in
May 8, 2024
unclenching a fist
By Hannah Holbert — I opened my hands, finally and found that they are still soft like the morning. I accepted the gift of renewed warmth in
May 4, 2024
Alien in My Backyard
By Johanna Haas — It was not long ago when lawns were covered with clover instead of grass. It’s not that long ago when towns were covered.
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