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Posts published in “Literary”
Trees full of beautiful leaves resting still, thousands of leaves rest on the ground undisturbed. Once the wind trickles in and tree branches begin to…
The Waiting Room
By ACE DUFRESNE on September 2024
Ting-a-ling. The room smells like a hospital–like the desperate attempt to cover up birth, death, and all the pain in between with cleaning supplies. A…
mother tongue
By ZADIE WANG on September 2024
i felt a burning in my throat when i cut out my mother tongue. i let the blood pool in my gums before i spit…
Dreams of the Dead
By CAEDMON SETHUPATHY on September 2024
And then it stopped. The mind slowly fading, The heart not palpitating. And then he went. His body destroyed, His fall from grace was his…
big far away
By TARAN KNUTSON on September 2024
the stars in the sky don’t know we admire them; but they would appreciate our centuries our generations of pointing up and saying look, look,…
The Station
By JULIA KLEINBERG on September 2024
Allison didn’t like this place. The tiles were strewn roughly beneath her feet, almost parallel with each other but not quite. She didn’t like the…
Haikus
By RUBY ZAWEL on September 2024
Summer came and soon it will leave us in its dust But the water stays Waves gently lapping One difference now exists forty-three hour drive…
The Rich Man
By CAEDMON SETHUPATHY on September 2024
God bless the rich man dying on the floor, The chains of corrupt governance drag to Hell his soul. Say goodbye to the life known…
Beings of the Mind
By CAITLIN STRONG on June 2024
The creature who followsand the one who hides.For the two of youcan never standside by side. I call and I callbut you never come. My…
A Dialogue
By JULIA KLEINBERG on June 2024
“Let’s play two truths and a lie.” “Excuse me?” “Let’s play two truths and a lie!” “Do I know you?” “No, but you will if…
The Waves from Plastic Cliffs
By TANIA HAO on June 2024
Yellow skyover endless horizonMonochrome backdrop for silvertongues of ocean, dancing wild and alive.With no land to surge into,the waves are ripplingflat plains. No seabirds fly…
Frozen
By ELLA AVGAR on June 2024
It was only summer for the rabbits. They stuck out their cracked noses from the yellowing bushes, ears twitching rhythmically. Heat battered their soft fur…
When The Last Snow Falls
By K MCNAIRN on June 2024
It doesn’t really.It’s always some small storm in February; Everyone rejoices and puts away all the winter things. Then March comes around,And everyone remembers why…
Stockholm
By THEODORE DUFRESNE on June 2024
Never pull the knife from your flesh.It was the first rule of first aid.The first rule for puncture wounds, that is. You put the knife…
The Ramblings
By ZADIE WANG on June 2024
I listen to the ramblingsof an unhappy man.His words slur into incoherent sentencesas he tiptoes between benign topics and those that strike chords.I feel my…
Ending Things Does Not Mean You Gave Up
By TIN CHO AYE on June 2024
Throughout your life, you are going to meet all kinds of peopleYou are going to meet good people and bad peopleYou are going to make…
I looked out into the dark overcast outside my window. The birds sang to a strange, syncopated tune, and the leaves were covered in rain…
Today is the Day of My Sister’s Wedding
By TANIA HAO on May 2024
My mother and father will not be present, not really. They will sit in the velvet-lined rows clutching plaster masks, perfectly sculpted, performance-ready at a…
Today I Wade
By ACE DUFRESNE on May 2024
The current’s force Roars my name Used to call to me Now I look away Blink twice My ears still ring Questions that Used to…
Lifeline
By ACE DUFRESNE on March 2024
On our timeline It feels like days ago That I held you last Not long ago When we last fell together In loose laughter What…
No Time To Spare
By ELLA AVGAR on March 2024
in a room no time to spare the heart awakens a pulse laid bare look for me what do you find a teasing, dancing, lonely…
House of Birds
By TANIA HAO on March 2024
There was a girl whose mother was a bird. Her mother’s mother was one, too, and her mother before that. In her mother’s stories, they…
Breathe in
By ACE DUFRESNE on March 2024
Trace my smile With open eyes Breathe it in And don’t look down Feel my grip Trust you won’t fall Know I’m here When you’ve…
We were thieves Starlight on our backs, the dark in our eyes The taste of the wind on our lips Your hands gripping the wheel,…
Mirror
By ACE DUFRESNE on March 2024
Tippy toes on tile floor Jump for a glimpseOf messy hair, but perfect skinRemember those days? Pose like you saw on TVWiggle your eyebrowsStick your…
What is Water?
By RANI SETHUPATHY on March 2024
I am placid and serene A Midsummer Night’s Dream, an oasis in the desert of your mind. I am quiet and secure modest and demure…