My Mother Dislikes My Sister and That’s Okay
By Amy Cincotta (’23) A person can only take so much before their heart shatters, just like the back windshield did when my mother smashed...
Where Is He?
By Julie Getchell (‘23) The doctor kept her hand on my neck at my checkup appointment. My ten-year-old self wondered if she was trying to...
I Have Hope, Not Faith
By Grace Phipps (‘22) “Linda, can I call you my step mom?” “Now, why would you do that?” “Because I look at you as my...
People See Me
By Emmett Perkins (‘20) Do you ever feel like your brain is ever-changing? The connections I harbor between body and brain, and mouth and brain,...
Butterfly Girl
By Elena Sidropoulos (‘21) (Previously Published in Hemetera 2019) Did you have to rip off her wings? Small, frail, delicate, such an innocent thing.A face like the...
The Cracked Seed
By Jacob Pardo (’23) Once upon a time, in the long ago when tall creatures walked in herds among the earth, a small seed fell...
American Made
By Karina Gomes (‘21) But summer shades farther away.My mind knows my mother tongueas thoughts flow freely here.My head is lightweightlike it has finally touched...
A Mausoleum of Feelings
By Rob Hardy (Previously Published in Hemetera 2018) I wish souls could stretch from our bodiesAnd touch between us.Uttering secrets we may not have known...