Children of Screens
/…are children of screens now
Who came out of the womb with face ID registered on their phone,
Who post selfies with their little baby friends…
By Sinéad Mears
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I Can't Save You
/A woman mourns the loss of her wife.
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…a girl scout today. Well, I ate 5 boxes of Samoas and 3 boxes of thin mints. There are 3 boxes of thin mints left in the freezer. I showed some restraint. The Samoas were her favorite; perhaps that was why I couldn't stop eating. I couldn't wait for her to wake out of sedation. The truth is I didn't want to…
By Leah Holbrook Sackett
Read MoreThe Lost Connection
/Loss of Faith in Technology
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…connection was lost in the wood.
In sorrow, I cursed an angry oath,
And turning in place as I…
By Ken Gosse
Read MoreMuriel Calls the Neighbor
/…was the time of the pandemic. On most days Muriel Blenkinsopp did not venture out of her house on High Street in Ashleyville, Ohio. She lived by herself, her husband having died five years before, and her children were now at home in another state a few hours away. She didn't even have a dog, though she would have liked one, but they seemed too much trouble to take care of. She didn't like cats very…
By Anita G. Gorman
Read MoreChildish Thoughts
/…looked down at my grandson, and a tear had filled his eye
He looked up and said “Papa, why is it things must die?”
His pleading eyes sought wisdom and I stammered just a bit
And tried to think, before I spoke, of proper words to…
By James Geehring
Read MoreSplendid Isolation
/…teeming crowd withdraws
Or I from it
Each shrinking from the other
Retreating down a long…
By Mike Turner
Read MoreDining Table
/…dining table in my house,
a battlefield as it has always been,
with four worn out chairs and a table adorned with scratches
rests in an often visited yet gloomy corner of the…
By Tamanna Malik
Read MoreGeneration Snowflake
/A piece on Generation Snowflake
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…term adopted for the new generation of young people, specifically those who are prone to take offence in discussion. It is argued that such young people lack the emotional resilience of previous generations in their tendency to get upset at having people disagree with…
By C.M.C Martin
Read MoreFighting Myself
/Dealing with disorder of pandemic and mental health issues
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…is no lead up, or warning signs, maybe being centre of this whirlpool; dealing with social distance, no job, not being able to see my family, meant I couldn’t see eddies nor feel how my world went further eschew. Looking back, I wonder if I was a different person, who fell into a hole, unable to craw…
By Karen Lethlean
Read MoreHuman Nature
/…the bombardment intensifies, she curls in the fetal position, hands clamped over ears. The bunker shakes, concrete walls quivering like paper, shockwaves vibrating through her bones. Screams catch in her throat as, all alone, she endures it. But when the onslaught eventually ceases, she crawls determinedly from her sanctuary to survey the wasteland she once called…
By Helen M Merrick
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