How I Learned the Meaning of Ableism | Rebecca Riley

It was my first week of grade five at a new school when I learned the word that would haunt me for years to come. One morning, I got off my bus and walked around the school to the back. A girl approached me and said, “You know, you’re in…

Steal This Book if You Need To| Vivian Underhill

I once heard a poem about a middle school librarian who, in big block letters, wrote on the wooden shelves of the LGBT section: Steal This Book If You Need To.

Fuck The Life Abundant | Marnie Bullock Dresser

Take from me my bitter, grudging, phlegmy gift
Of abnegation, obligation, shit
That’s hit the fan and been reconstituted
As talc to make me sneeze and get all rheumy.
“God bless you,” someone says. “God bless yourself.”
Take my grim enthusiasm…

Featured Friday | Meet Amy Butcher

Amy Butcher is a talented author with much ahead of her. Check out our interview with her and be…

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Tampon | Alexandra Neuman

At age seven I found one in my mom’s cabinet. I sat cross-legged on the icy marble flooring of her bathroom and eagerly stripped the plastic wrapper off of what I thought was advanced candy. What I found inside left me quietly stunned; the shiny plastic bullet was the symbol of a…

Arkansas I-40 | Dennis Milam Bensie

9:00am, Kingsbow, Arkansas: a beat up truck pulls into the parking lot at the Cadillac dealership.

“We can do this,” Becky Collier says to her husband.

Featured Friday | Meet Gurkeyrith

Gurkeyrith uses poetry as an outlet to write about her experience as a brown immigrant woman…

The First Six Meters | Vidya Panicker

Every day, I wake up at the crack of dawn and find my way to the pond 100 meters away from the house. I pinch my nose and take three dips in the chilling water, eye the sun for a few seconds through the hazy mist of dawn and chant the words of God that could bless…

The Fairy Sword | Laura Madeline Wiseman

The fairies insist I seize their sword. I don’t own a sword. My family wasn’t the sword keeping type, none belted at a hip, none crisscross on the wall, none lifted in war. My family lived on the wrong side of town, ran around with the wrong kind of crowd…

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