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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…
suck in
By ZADIE WANG on March 2024
Suck in All the fat and the waste Learn when you take up too much space. Let your stomach become as small as you feel…
Now
By TARAN KNUTSON on March 2024
And I thought the tall people could no longer live And I thought life’d have no more to give And I didn’t ‘get’ accomplishment and…
Try and
By ACE DUFRESNE on February 2024
Shade them from the grating wind, The thundering of collapsing trees Warm them with a loving embrace, Newborn snow on the tip of their tongue…
Solo swim
By ZADIE WANG on February 2024
Content warning: Suicide Dip your toes in. Cold, cold, cold. Water kisses your ankles and rushes back into the ocean. Wade into the water. Let…
What I Didn’t See
By MIA CHO on February 2024
When I opened my lunch box, I saw a sandwich and a juice box. What I didn’t see, Was the time my mom spent making…
Grow up
By ACE DUFRESNE on February 2024
Content warning: Self-harm Battle with your gap-toothed grin Your rosy cheeks Your unkempt hair Battle with your unbroken heart Your open creativity and Dreams of…
Dinosaur Egg
By TARAN KNUTSON on February 2024
you say i’m not sure but i never wanted to be sure. i never wanted to know exactly who i was. if i surprise you…
Literary Issue 2024 – Reflections
By THE TATTLER EDITORIAL BOARD on January 2024
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