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I Know

November 21, 2022November 20, 2022 Elisabeth Horan

Using the crowbar on me — I am more tired than angry with you — endlessly waiting — I’m aware you don’t love me; the way you love the scarlet lady out your backdoor I’m shaking alone — only the veins in my forehead pulse – applaud my effort — Read more

Dating + Relationships, Featured, PoetryElizabeth Horan, erotic poetry, poetry, relationshipsLeave a comment

Ghost Knight

November 7, 2022November 7, 2022 Paula R. Hilton

We haven’t spoken for years, yet my wounds are fresh. Your sword’s point, it’s center ridge, the length of its groove, as if a ghost knight buried his blade in my chest. It’s no secret, I once loved you more than the rest, despite your duplicity, your sarcasm disguised as Read more

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Fat Tuesday

October 10, 2022October 10, 2022 Emily Nelson

Layla tells us that she was down to 500 calories a day when she saw God. We’re all at Bri’s house, the four of us knee to knee and shivering because her mom turns off the heat at nine. The basement TV is paused in the middle of an episode Read more

Emotional Health, Featured, Friends + Family, Women's Issues + Awarenessanorexia, eating disorders, Emily Nelson, mental health, peer pressure, religion, short storyLeave a comment

Desideratum – n. something which is needed or wanted

October 3, 2022October 3, 2022 Elisabeth Horan

On a Joplin trip Winding a string around my finger Oh yeah; sweetest hues and blue of Addiction, of love of words, pastel baby What’s the point, little girl-pink tastes Like anger to me — I need nothing But satin feelings — I understand nothing — the Presence of my Read more

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A Demi-God

October 3, 2022October 9, 2022 Margret Avery

If there was a joke attached to every lie you spoke or wrote I would laugh and laugh and never settle for your self adulation in your separation of the shallow wall in your heart that never lets anyone in but its the failed chagrin in the dailies of your Read more

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Girl Fight

September 19, 2022September 19, 2022 Erin Murphy

Last week, I sat alone at the bar in a family-friendly local pizza place. Only two miles away from where I live, this restaurant appeals to me for other reasons, like its theme. It is “galactic,’ with the inside of the building decorated with elaborate otherworldly creations. Paper mache planets Read more

Short Fiction, Women's Issues + Awarenessempowerment, Erin Murphy, short fiction, women issuesLeave a comment

twenty years

September 6, 2022September 6, 2022 Anne Leigh Parrish

twenty years you’ve been gone & that’s just how long you’ve been dead in life you were gone, too i was a pool you’d drown in if you got your feet wet you kept your feet dry how hard to hold the truth like a bitter seed under your tongue Read more

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Drowning

September 6, 2022September 6, 2022 Hannah Bagley

Pull me in and take me under. Throw me overboard—hold me under the waves. How I wish I could drown in the expanse of you.   Take the air from my lungs and give me yours. Let me paint you with care, turn your skin smooth as river rock— polished Read more

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