Jess Woolford where began it? this sense: safety stolen? was it back there? schoolyard where boys tracked took you down ...

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...

Ron Blake

Tracy Grinstead-Everly *Dedicated to my abusive ex-boyfriends and others like them, To those of us who, despite them, are still here, And...

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...

Shaillee Juneja She traversed the darkness Those paths filled with Muted and forced silence Aching heart Violated body And a broken...

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...

Tracie T. Nichols choked on unsought moisture forced through every mucus-lined threshold a small girl body forms in trusting fetal...

Wendy Jensen I don't necessarily like the taste of tea. It's the enforced break from my rushing inner world that rewards. Once the tea...

Beth Thunk, thunk, thunk. She's slamming her body into the wall. Bouncing off and slamming into it again and again. A voice, HER voice,...

Tayler Simon Every 68 seconds someone in this country is sexually assaulted. This, of course, is a conservative number, since so many...

Wendy Jensen I accelerate onto the freeway trees flashing by and my assured solitude tickles awake a memory. An unbidden flicker quiet as...

Tracie T. Nichols the unabashed truths etched across gray folds, cradled in brittling bone. Name the diminishment— the utter, unholy,...

Morgan Sullivan Monsters live in my head. Some monsters have smooth reptile skin shades of emerald jewels and then there is one that...