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Re-Origin

August 16, 2021August 16, 2021 Tia Fishler

you spat me out at the very top of the tornado where sky meets dust just high it was blurry-dizzying, nauseating most mornings chewing-gum- pin-balling between being wrong and being wronger, I know I was never wrongest I slithered, spiraled down that treacherous hole, it felt like years and honestly Read more

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Dating a Narcissist Eleven Years Later

August 9, 2021August 9, 2021 Anon Feminine Collective

It was our 11th anniversary on the New Year of 2021. Our daughter woke up early but wanted to go and play so it was just us two in bed on a late Friday morning. I was on my phone when he fully woke up and he snuggled his back Read more

Dating + Relationships, Emotional Health, Women's Issues + Awarenessabuse, narcissistic, toxic love, toxic relationshipsLeave a comment

Are you my mother?

November 27, 2019November 27, 2019 Catherine Zickgraf

—cried the hatchling, beginning to exhibit seeking behavior. Its mother gone silent because father— Was I, tongue-dry, just dreaming that time she pledged to leave me at the train station if I darted quick for the water fountain? He pronounced me dead in the punishment of banishment, declared they would Read more

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survivor

May 13, 2018May 13, 2018 Rebecca Kokitus

I never thought of myself as a survivor / just in the wrong place at the wrong time / don’t get in an elevator with someone who makes you uncomfortable, just take the stairs his first kiss, my first sexual assault / go home smelling like the teenager I never Read more

Emotional Health, Featured, Poetryabuse, emotional abuse, emotional health, MeToo, poetry, prose, Rebecca Kokitus, relationships, sex, sexism, sexual predators1 Comment

Sweetheart

May 7, 2018October 15, 2018 Hannah Poynor

I watched the sky fade from a pretty pink color to dark. I sat in my room dreading the night, as I always did. The front door opened and all I heard was the sound of heavy boots walking in the house. I sighed and left my room. I opened Read more

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Scars

April 29, 2018October 15, 2018 Carly Zee

Proud muscle Battered and bruised A child, proud of strength And power That came with skinned knees and bruised shins Launching – Into flight Or fury To all who opposed Her fierce will   But, they admonished If you have scars No one will marry you Unattractive knees Belied her Read more

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Blind Ambition

April 6, 2018August 29, 2021 Ruth Edgett

If Tina wasn’t so damn hard, I probably wouldn’t be doing this, but even a dog gets tired of being kicked after a while. In a year and a half, I’ll be eighteen anyway, so cutting out early’s no big whoop. Wonder if she even knows I’m gone. The manager Read more

Featured, Short Fiction, Women's Issues + Awarenessabuse, daughter, mother, Ruth Edgett, short story2 Comments

Sadist Prey

February 12, 2018October 15, 2018 Natasha Alexander

She whispered her secrets and he used them to cage her, making her believe no one will understand, she’s a freak for only him to know. He climbed into her anxiety, playing marionette with her insecurities, molding her for only him to control. Blinding her with conditions covered in praises. Read more

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