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Life Ends in Why by Emma Delicato
“A hym was sang at your funeral today, I know church wasn’t your thing, but you know your mother.” She tosses a cigarette butt out her car window and makes eye contact with herself in the review mirror. “I didn’t cry, and I took a shot of Fireball for the both of us in the…
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When the Universe Gives You Seashells by Chase Supensky
The night’s low tide and phone flashlights revealed dark sand and glittering seashells. Searching for a seashell worth keeping can take a while, though my mom is less picky about her shells than I am. Oftentimes, she will roam the beach and come back with multiple pounds of seashells, doing the same the next day.…
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A Rebel Character by Anne Wolfrum
When I was in high school, I spent three semesters with Mrs. Smith. She was my English teacher for my first semester of Honors English 10, and she was my AP Literature teacher. I think she chose to be a teacher because she loved books and literature, without much consideration for the fact that the…
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Neurodiversity by Madelyn Bush
When I think about what it means to be “human,”I don’t think of “normalcy”When I think about the word “autism,”I don’t think of “disability” No, what I think of with autism, or any other disorder,I think of a longing of acceptance, of a longing to belongOf finding a place in society that treats us as…
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Ghazal for Middle Earth by Nessa Hake
Lórien’s light is a golden-silver, shining through its leaves.Watching the world spin round I fear I never could, but she finally leaves the world, that thousands of years never dulled her love for,to go to rest in the land of her maker. But she’ll never forget her golden leaves. From Lothlórien she handed the wanders…
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Two Poems by Jill Ahlgren
Magnets A far off pole,I’m pulled to you through the air.Across a sea and miles,A part of me stretches from here to there. You’re in your place,And I’m in mine,But we are still sewn togetherBy this invisible line. Like a planet in orbit,I watch you from afar.You’re the shining sun,My favorite star. I’m the North…
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Discrimination by Amayah Walker
Two women looking, for a piece of love.Then be discriminated, unlike a man and woman looking, for a piece of love. We go out in pubic to show how beautiful we are — I will saythis will be our destruction if we don’t have a piece of love. Why do others care who we love?…
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Two Poems by Ace Hudnell
Category Five I feel it pulsing against my chestbuilding, pushing, threatening to burst and spill and it doesand I do Love pours from my body like a tropical stormseeping through my pores and pooling around Me it is purelike the Caribbean sea, transparent and bright I am drowned in it, blissfully suffocatingin this feeling I…
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My Little Friend by Eliza Boehmer
Eloise was scrambling down a junk pile filled with objects once loved that now lay forgotten when something out of the corner of her eye caught her attention. It was a half-buried dark wooden chest, with the most intricate carved details that Eloise had ever seen. The carvings were small shapes or letters that lined…
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Would You Like to Have That? by Carla Shoop Bender
It had been twenty-five years. Twenty and five fast years. Five and twenty short years. The last time I saw her was when Mamaw was in the nursing home. What in the world happened that I haven’t seen her for so long?! The whirring of her hairdryer was hypnotic in its simple buzzing sound that…
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