by CHRISTIAN SHERRICK - September 27, 2020 With empty streets and silent stores The birds all strum their somber chords The world...

by MACKENZIE PARTAIN - September 20, 2020 The recollection of her sweet, caring voice, telling me she loves me asking me to visit again....

by EMILY HAMADE - April 27, 2020 A rabbit, brown fur with a pink delicate nose, sat in the middle of a dirt road, surrounded by trees who...

by JOSEPH WOLFE - April 27, 2020 A warm bright day in mid-July A quilt of blue across the sky What a day for baseball I thought Getting...

by CECILIA ODENBAUGH - April 27, 2020 There was a time when I’d come home to read in the living room alone. Maybe I’d sit on the dark...

by REAGAN MOTSINGER - April 27, 2020 “What are you best at?” Nothing, he thought. There’s nothing. Try again. Think harder. Um… I’m a...

by KATIE MANBECK - April 27, 2020 The pines shoot from the ground like skyscrapers The roots strangle the stone buildings, reclaiming...

by NATALIE STIDHAM - April 27, 2020 I wish I’d said good-bye without shed tears When God decided that your time was near I know what was...

by ZOE EVANS - February 27, 2020 Creased and torn pictures that clung to the walls are now in a shoebox under the bed. Your wild grin and...

by HUNTER COOK - February 27, 2020 One fateful day my life was shook— Pure life was taken by a Crook. A Peace I’d known at once was gone—...

by Bella Clark - February 21, 2020 When the world starts to crack and constitutions begin to crumble and blood stains the bookshelves,...

by EVIE STOVALL - February 20, 2020 I’m obsessed with our starving marriage Our lovely dogfight wedding Where we shared a vicious kiss...

by REAGAN MOTSINGER - February 19, 2020 I perch in the treetop, bow pointed down at the dirt path below. There’s no sign of the king’s...

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By HUNTER COOK Jan. 10, 2020 embers flying scorching land trees moaning cracking under heat brush land smoking burning to ash, orange...

by ANNIKA KINTZEL Jan. 10, 2020 Riley owned a set of stuffed animals: a little dragon that she named Phillip, after the prince in...

by Cecilia Odenbaugh - January 9, 2020 Beneath a cold and lifeless window bones upon bones stacked up high as if they climbed upon each...

by GRACE LEBER - January 8, 2020 Soft, gentle flakes of snow, They fall from Heaven and seem to glow, Dusting your hair as we emerge Into...

by SARA HARMEYER - January 8, 2020 Let me tell you about Melting glaciers in our seas Burning forests on our land Dirty air in our bodies...

by HANNAH GILBERT - January 6, 2020 endless days laughing under the sun memories thought to last a lifetime had just begun innocent hands...