IF ONLY MY MOTHER WOULD HAVE LIVED
By Lynn Davidman — If only my mother had lived instead of dying when I was barely thirteen, my life would have been easier in so many ways.
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The
Premier
online
literary
journal
for
Expressive
Writing
JOURNAL OF
EXPRESSIVE WRITING
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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- Apr 4, 2022
On Reading and Writing during the Pandemic
By Joyce Bou Charaa — Since the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020, we have been trying to escape the news, the economic crisis
- Apr 1, 2022
Trash Pandas
By Andrew Scott — People around here call them Trash Pandas. Visitors that come in the silence of the night so, no one can hear or see them.
- Mar 30, 2022
Until You Are Prosecuted
By Hanan Kholoussy — How insecure must you be to gang up on her and take turns on her after you drugged her repeatedly. For despite all your
- Mar 28, 2022
Roles We Play
By Jeremiah K Durick — Little more than a toddler he wanted to do the work we did – dishes, vacuuming, raking and
anything else we were
- Mar 25, 2022
Grateful Just To Still Be
By Loretta Iwaniw-Horne — I have lost a lot of friends abruptly. I've seen them in news feeds, missing pieces of their faces and torsos.
- Mar 23, 2022
First Dance
By John L Swainston — Remembered what my grandfather had told me: “Want a girlfriend, make the loneliest girl happy.” Walked up to her,
- Mar 21, 2022
Three Poems
By Debbie Cutler — Mary and I talk into the night, sip dessert wine from Alaska,
dance to the throb of country blues or rap, listen to
- Mar 19, 2022
A March Through Time
By John P Drudge — It clicks and clacks
through time like jack boots on government marble. New forms of idolatry and poisoned messages from
- Mar 17, 2022
BABY BOOMERANG
By Mark Blickley — My Baby Boomer generation has been weaponized into a baby boomerang that cuts down all who are different then we are.
- Mar 15, 2022
Inexorable Fate
By Gary Beck — Americans watched on TV as the police were overwhelmed by hundreds of attackers and no one sent reinforcements to defend the
- Mar 13, 2022
Your Reflection
By Rachel Gomez — Would it remind you to nourish yourself, after you promised to never eat again. Because of how guilty you felt after last
- Mar 7, 2022
I have heard her voice
By R. Bremner — I hear her voice at
the strangest times: at work, during a conference all; walking the dog on a bright sunny day; listening
- Mar 3, 2022
Metamorphosis
By Monalisa Parida — There was a girl
who lived in a querencia, a secret garden, where love, light surrounds. Enchantress soul uses
- Feb 28, 2022
Today's Me
By Lynn White — Maybe you’ll find me
in the language of my body, but not in the practiced gestures, the performance, the masquerade that
- Feb 26, 2022
BENEATH THE NOBLE TREE…
By Kahlil Crawford — See, one day Al realized he didn't have a point of view beyond what he was taught as a child, so he set out to develop
- Feb 24, 2022
Ask Me
By Britta Benson — The spray, the spit,
the grit of determination. These are the paperweights keeping the world in her place.
Add the fickl
- Feb 21, 2022
Aesthetic Criteria
Santana Kamal — You can find murder ugly, but what if it saves you? An arc of abuse by precedented year - you turn into a beautiful monster.
- Feb 18, 2022
At Forty
By Yulia Tseytlin — At three, I didn’t shove a thin stick in my mother’s nose, saying ‘corona-test’. At four, when I played school, a mask
- Feb 15, 2022
Playground Angst
By Elizabeth Jaeger — Yes, I watched my son hit your son. You thought I was standing off to the side reading a book. But I was watching
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