Category: fall 2018 lit
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A Sparkle In Time by Cindy Xinru Yan
1977 was an important year of Chinese history. Beloved chairman Mao passed away a year before, and the demise of the Gang of Four ended the most painful history of the Culture revolution. “This country changed every day and night,” the newspaper told people.[…]
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Sunshine and Rain by Brianna Joyce
Rain, rain, go away. Come again another day. That’s what all the children say. At least, the other children. But not Maggie. Quiet Maggie welcomes the rain. Throughout her school life, she was known for sitting in the rain for hours. […]
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The Hallway of Flowers by Brianna Joyce
I remember when my mom gave me five dollars. Even when I was six, I knew the importance of that amount. One time, my school had a festival and were selling these flowers called “Snap Dragons”. […]
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Daughter of Athena by Nick Grogan
She wiped the little droplets of sweat from her forehead. The steam rose tall like large gates trapping her behind it’s defense. The aroma was normal in her house. The grease popped and hissed against her olive skin and each jerk was a reminder she was stuck doing this until all pieces of chicken were…
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The Worst Poem Ever Written by Michelle Everette
Writer, a woman stopped breathing once. Because you couldn’t stop stirring your fucking coffee[…]
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A Dream Dismantled by Michelle Everette
drunk & black i enter your home, following my mother’s scent. i am the poet’s pretty wound. a man raised me this way- to move in metaphor.[…]
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Positions by Anna Nichols Cooksey
When we lay in bed, the crux of my body hinges on your soft edges; morphed together, tethered magnetism.[…]
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Vanity by Anna Nichols Cooksey
for their fifteenth anniversary, my father built my mother a vanity.[…]
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made of marzipan by Anna Nichols Cooksey
since childhood, my body has been a slave to the sweet. smoking candy cigarettes and snorting smarties.[…]
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