By ALAINA TRUMBULL, November 15, 2021 I don’t wash my dishes. When I put them in the sink I let them sit there and I stare at them. I sit...

By CARA MCMILLEN, November 14, 2021 your own little world— no lights, no life just you, boxed in Is it cold or does the soil insulate...

By ALLIE BEENE, November 12, 2021 narrow paths strangle me as my eyes dart back & forth a street etched with alleys, hoping you don’t...

Spooktober Winner!! By COLE BANGERT, October 31, 2021 Image by ALANA HALSTED With a pitiful scream, the man fell from the building, body...

Spooktober Finalist! By ADDYSON HALSTED, October 30, 2021 The definition of serene, he holds himself like a king. He cannot be more in...

Spooktober Finalist! By KENNEDY DARTS, October 29, 2021 Beware Beware the woman she stares With eyes full of black until they attack....

By ANONYMOUS, October 18, 2021 I am autistic. Not a “person with autism” for it is not something I own, it is me. I have been a social...

By STEVIE KILGORE - October 7, 2021 Even through the thick smoke of cigars, Jean knew she drew everyone’s attention. Perhaps it was her...

by KAELYN POSTON September 28, 2021 Friends in tears from endless slander, What did they do to deserve this banter? Memories haunting,...

By STEVIE KILGORE, September 21, 2021 It always felt damp in the putt-putt lobby. Not in a chilling or quietly ominous sense, but a...

by DREW COLLINS - September 14, 2021 Traveling, an endless fixture awaiting tracks not there— not all junctions need courses, but her...

by ALLIE BEENE - September 1, 2021 I gaze upon the patchwork quilt of land below me. squares and rectangles of soybeans, corn, and wheat,...

by JC HOWARD - August 30, 2021 The time read 5:27 when Joseph pulled into his circular gravel driveway after a long day of working at...

by GABE ANDERSON - August 30, 2021 I held a vase. A vase with a complex design. I analyzed its colors. I analyzed its lines. I ran my...

by ALLIE BEENE - August 22, 2021 I always encounter her at my worst when we’re all we have. she’s more splintered than I realize once our...

by HALEY HAMILTON - April 30, 2021 Clothes scattered Food smashed into the carpet Dishes days old How can someone live this way? Days...

by ISSAC MINDER - April 30, 2021 Like a safe haven in the middle of a storm, He made it easy to love him. The smell of his trademark...

by STEVIE KILGORE - April 30, 2021 Debbie’s knees were one more victim of faded scars from gravel sidewalks And although she was old and...

by STEPHANIE VON BULOW - March 31, 2021 Steamy, hot water trickles down, caresses the skin with a burn. It drips down the nose, follows...

March 31, 2021 When you gave me a small plant I didn’t know what to expect of it How it would grow, how tall or how fast How strong the...