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From haiku to hefty memoirs - poems, stories and essays that break through the bullshit. Looking for pieces that go far beyond cliché to uncover a new realm of possibilities. Other Doors features writing that leaves the reader with genuine congenital reactions.

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Magna Mater (the Great Mother)

The earth coughs, whispers, dims the house lights, mutely
Allows herself to be discoursed upon
By…

Erin Ryan Burdette in Other Doors

The Only One Left

Poem questions Nature and Nurture through a flower that will not die.

Nicholas Petrone in Other Doors

A Badass Bitch’s Bullshit Free Writing…in hardcover (ain’t no Karen)

Nicholas Petrone in Other Doors

Other Doors — the Next Level

This past weekend Other Doors open up about mothers, motherhood, and Mother’s Day.

Nicholas Petrone in Other Doors

Other Doors Mother’s Day Till Midnight Prompt

Other Doors wants you to open up about mothers, motherhood, Mother’s Day, Mother…

Nicholas Petrone in Other Doors

mother’s day the haiku

there are no presents

to accurately convey

what you mean to us.

Nicholas Petrone in Other Doors

Left Behind

What did you leave for me? –

the empty wind that tosses leaves like impersonal playthings

Josie ElBiry in Other Doors

Six Degrees

By day, I was expecting my first baby. By night, I was murdering people and shoving them…

Rajesh Sake in Other Doors

My wife is the strongest person I have ever known. Period.

Liz Petrone in Other Doors

Survival Mode

No one told me how much of life was just survival mode. Some told me it would be amazing (and it is!) and some told me it would be…