Issue Fifteen

White on White on White

By Emmitt Barnes My Grammy’s house had wall-to-wall white carpet that ran to every white wall. We weren’t allowed in certain...

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Seismic Memory

By Karlo Sevilla The mother calls her little girl’s name through the megaphone, hopes that like Lazarus, the child will arise from the...

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JFK Was Here (Dallas, TX)

By Rosalie Hendon We were going to hike, but instead we go to the site where a president was murdered   We find the memorial first,...

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Storia’s Marks

By Ravindu Paris I stared down at my laptop, the words a dizzying mess. I took a deep breath, my nose immediately engulfed by the...

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Uncivil

By Isabelle P. Byrne Our history tells us how we built civilisation on top of the poor, That the west is the older brother you never wished...

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Orphan Train

By Helene Berton The children swayed back and forth to the train’s rhythm as it travelled through the countryside until it gradually...

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The Phone Call

By Fariza Farid Memon My document stared back at me in desperation for me to complete my given task, but my eyes and mind drifted to the...

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Saoirse

By April Stevens Auburn, like a winter’s flame a fierce tongue, a beautiful name. Her freckles a hundred kisses on her skin, Encompassing...

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Surveying the Border

By Matthew Davis Edward Riggs White                                                                    ...

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Letters Beneath the Floorboards

By Ravindu Paris I heard the floorboards creak as I stepped inside the house—my house. A part of me smiled, another part shuddered at the...

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Lexington Green

By Peter Kaczmarczyk I sit on Lexington Green Writing poetry as I did When I was sixteen A place of spirits Where soldiers died at early...

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A Fire at Susa, in the Year 323 BCE

By Wolfgang Wright He had studied under Aristotle, the greatest philosopher in Greece, and yet Kalanos, this strange old man from Taxila,...

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Spiritual Traces

By Peter Kaczmarczyk I enter the house just off the road, mostly hidden from the view of passers-by. Resting on land reclaimed by nature,...

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Things in Places

By Maria Griffin here, a thing. behind it: another. there, a third. three things sit, each in its place, as if arranged, pleasingly...

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Personal Growth for Anarchist Gremlins

By MK Zariel since middle school, when i’ve had an interpersonal conflict, i’ve handled it the normal way—talking to friends, to a...

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War Games

By Aimee Fletcher Mary stood at the counter with a warm cup of tea clutched in her hands, surrounded by the smell of baking bread, and...

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May 18, 1985, Duduza, South Africa

By Grant Shimmin It’s cup final day in dusty Duduza¹ east of Johannesburg Not that anyone’s playing football here in this place they...

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