Humanity: Raw & Unfiltered
We fight ourselves off every day The temptations for self hatred Gather ‘round for sentencing at the Crown Court We go into battle eyes to God, hand to Chest Young boys drum For the new citizenry Stopped in tracks by musket balls Worse bayonets Worse hand to hand combat with Read more
Maddie woke up around 10 am in a panic. She had totally overslept, and she was an hour late to sign on for work. She stumbled over to her laptop and quickly surveyed her emails and chats, figuring everyone on her team was probably looking for her and wondering where Read more
*Trigger Warning Swinging from a beam, I shudder, not in fear or fright, but glee, that I have the power (even in my state) to rub myself clean. On the cusp of my neck snapping, tugging as the coarse grains of the noose tighten further, against my pallid, exposed neck, Read more
On August 1, 1944, at 5 p.m., “W-hour” began in Warsaw, Poland. Taken from the Polish word wybuch, meaning “explosion,” W-hour was the start of the Warsaw Uprising, an underground resistance’s attempt to expel Nazi forces from the city. Horrific spoiler: despite its meticulous planning and herculean effort, the Warsaw Read more
The story of a West Virginia girl who missed her moment, survived the silence, and found her smile. Trigger Warning:This essay contains references to childhood sexual abuse, reproductive health, and survival. Please take care while reading. At 50 years old, I got braces. To reshape something as simple — and Read more
…burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge. In another moment, down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again. I am sitting Read more
like a basketball so high with every toss like a doll they throw (but scorn to hold or cuddle) up goes the baby girl laughing first then screaming up up again almost to the ceiling they feel their strength the power of deciding whether to play the hero to find Read more
