The Coil

Hannah Huff responds to our monthly historical photo prompt with the poem ‘A Routine Groundbreaking.’

R. J. Keeler responds to our monthly historical photo prompt with the poem “Trade (Among the Equilibrists).”

Rommel Chrisden Rollan Samarita responds to our monthly historical photo prompt with “What Can a Woman Do.”

Krista Hanley, a survivor of the 1999 Columbine mass shooting, lists how she prepares for the trauma and scars 20 years later.

Nicholas Powell writes an ode to coffee, quality time, and the gender-assigning of objects, and it all might just be a metaphor.

Jake Camp relives the trauma and uncertainty of his son’s battle with the rare vascular disorder Kawasaki Disease.