advice to my sister runners
Jess Woolford dress to suppress step into sack sweats hide inside hoodie no shape: too ugly to rape or so they say spontaneity? a...
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A Child’s Panes
Caroline Cottom Texaco Man Daddy’s footsteps on the stairs shake the house he flips on the bathroom light flushes the toilet hard...
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where began it?
Jess Woolford where began it? this sense: safety stolen? was it back there? schoolyard where boys tracked took you down ...
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Reflection
Michael Dufresne and the window speaks to the flesh in these clothes conveying a pulse a remembrance of what it was like to be against...
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I’m Still Here*
Tracy Grinstead-Everly *Dedicated to my abusive ex-boyfriends and others like them, To those of us who, despite them, are still here, And...
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How to Burn Down a Tree Fort
Joan Clare You are not a pyromaniac. You are merely an extremely unhappy 12-year-old girl who gets her hands on a real book of witchcraft...
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Look at her
Shaillee Juneja She traversed the darkness Those paths filled with Muted and forced silence Aching heart Violated body And a broken...
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My Sister's Brother
Clay Jones “Would you PLEASE set the table!” Mom laughed with a smile. That was our job. I got water for four and my sis Becky, four...
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It was years before I understood not all my playground friends…
Tracie T. Nichols choked on unsought moisture forced through every mucus-lined threshold a small girl body forms in trusting fetal...
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Every 68 Seconds
Tayler Simon Every 68 seconds someone in this country is sexually assaulted. This, of course, is a conservative number, since so many...
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Finally, at sixty, I see
Tracie T. Nichols the unabashed truths etched across gray folds, cradled in brittling bone. Name the diminishment— the utter, unholy,...
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Full of Monsters
Morgan Sullivan Monsters live in my head. Some monsters have smooth reptile skin shades of emerald jewels and then there is one that...
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