As I Held Lightning...
/…cloudless day, without spring shower
or monsoon, angels made their stand;
and conjured otherworldly power,
one cloudless day, without spring …
By Ngoc Nguyen
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Mysterious Meandering
/A weekly hike turns into …
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…an adventurous trio: two girls and a boy.
Our weekly treks throughout the woods generated joy.
One autumn hike brought cool…
By Debby Hackbarth
Read MoreOil, Always Oil
/…vibrant body of my
grandmother’s homemade sauce
lives in memory, I think
of her kitchen around …
By Melissa Lemay
Read MoreMissing Cigarettes
/…I took out one. Until then I had always given my father the impression that I never smoked. So, as he lit the cigarette for me, I went about the business of smoking like a …
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreDeath, The First Time
/…recall the first dead body you had to see? Mine was my great grandmother. That’s…
By Joe S. Thomas
Read MoreDouble Rainbow
/The legend says that who…
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…rainbow in the sky!
Two ends deep into the ocean,
The others are touching…
By Petrouchka Alexieva
Read MoreGod Bless This Family
/Thanksgiving gatherings…
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…up Thanksgiving morning with my mother knocking on my bedroom door to tell me to “Get up! It’s Thanksgiving! We have a lot of things to do before the rest of the family gets…
By Ken King
Read MoreI Ride In A Barrel
/…waterfall of regrets.
How do I return time I borrowed
from childhood to act older than my years?
Now that my future…
By Nolcha Fox
Read MoreA Little Girl
/…I was a little girl
I had no fear
I wore pink dresses and white pearls
I wasn't as fragile as…
By Brittany Benko
Read MoreObsessive-Compulsive
/…picture shows me wearing yellow sweatpants that are tucked into white socks; in it I’m sitting on some weird, satin, maroon-colored…
By Melissa Lemay
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