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…
Posts published in “Literary”
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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A Communist Capitalist
By CAEDMON SETHUPATHY on December 2023
I stole from the rich, And flipped a penny to the poor, Now watch as they cheer and shout. They forget that indeed, Right up…
Hello Child
By CAEDMON SETHUPATHY on December 2023
Hello child, You just opened your eyes. The light must be so bright in your mind. I can picture a day, When you’ll grow old…
Missy was an odd girl. Out of all the children Lily babysat, she was undoubtedly the most mature, but she could also be the most…
Hidden
By ELLA AVGAR on December 2023
shhh look up no, not there by the lemony sigh by the hesitant shout by the row of zippered lips and tempered rage and orange…
The Princess Visit
By ZADIE WANG on November 2023
CW: Death, disease. I don’t think I was given the correct address. I’m all dressed up in my Cinderella costume, as my Subaru Forester and…
Benches
By TARAN KNUTSON on November 2023
I didn’t need to sit— I could’ve gone on Soldiered forward folded my shoulder as it got colder and colder The bench didn’t need me—…
Do you remember the soft spring breeze? And how we sprawled on the grass and drank frosty lemonade out of chipped mugs, and how we…
I spend a lot of time thinking, about what’s yet to come. I spend a lot of time thinking, about what has happened in the…
Hobbies of the Illusive Cousin
By CORNELIA YE on October 2023
We all have that cousin, Oh, you know the type, Your parents tell you all about them, And it keeps you up all night, So…
A Few Hungry Pumpkins
By TANIA HAO on October 2023
The thick black mud clutched at Amelia’s legs as she hacked away at one particularly determined pumpkin vine and wondered why she’d ever agreed to…