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  • Corner stop sign with a painted message, I love you.

    Welcome to Writers Resist, the December 2023 Issue

    It's been a year that too often has left many of us without words—thankfully, not those who've made this issue possible. Their voices offer clarity, [...]

  • Painting of Black people, adults and children, crossing a river to escape enslavement.

    Slowcookery

    By Amy L. Bernstein   “Because when it comes to truly explaining racial injustice in this country, the table should never be set quickly” – [...]

  • Sculpture of a beached whale

    The Whale

    By Kerry Loughman                                    never budged becalmed she was bleached by sun & beached     on relentless rise of blue water liquid leeched from her [...]

  • Ladder and rope by a tree

    Two Poems by Linda Parsons

    How a Woman Becomes Herself When the neighbor’s weed tree drapes over the power lines and shades her garden, she contemplates going out by moonlight [...]

  • Repeating image of a child, distorted with each repeat

    Disappearing Into the Flesh Market VII

    By Mary Stebbins Taitt   Artist's statement: This painting, part of a series, is a resistance statement against the misuse of girls, boys, women, and others by [...]

  • Coyote standing in dry grass, looking skyward, howling.

    Wildness Unafraid

    By Tim Murphy   What if trees could talk? No. Of course they do. What if we could hear them speak just beneath our feet? What [...]

  • Photo of a sandal abandoned in the bushes

    Suburban Median

    By Myna Chang   We see the body on the way to drop our kids off at school. It’s in the median at the Parkway [...]

  • Front of a house painted in rainbow colors, with a grey cat sitting on the steps.

    Wrong Rainbow

    By L. Acadia   Describing our droomhuis for Dutch class, my worksheet filled with my dream house’s garden: Hollyhocks, hydrangea higher than I, wrought iron [...]

  • A flock of Ibis grooming in water

    Two Poems by Deborah Hochberg

    Congregation of Ibis    “A barrage of storms has resurrected what was once the largest body of fresh water west of the Mississippi River, setting [...]

  • Victorian image of a woman standing before mirrors wearing a corset and bloomers

    what happened before the good sex

    By Bryana Joy   for God’s sake no more games she said setting the last set of lace panties in the trash i am befuddled [...]

  • Ocean foam on sand

    that name

    By William Palmer   tide in— imagine waves scraping away that name and the lies upon lies that feed off it, dissolving them in foam [...]

  • An illustrated poem with text, image of a gun, and charts with gun violence statistics

    Point Blank

    An Illustrated Poem by Jane Muschenetz  MIT grad and former Bain Management Consultant, Jane Muschenetz arrived in the United States as a child refugee from [...]

  • Satirical

    What About the Men?

    By Phyllis Wax   A new drug for menopause is being hailed as a godsend for a condition many women endure in silence. Thing is, [...]

  • Curly-haired toddler holding a well-loved teddy bear

    The Last Revolution

    By Lorraine Schein   The Last Revolution was yesterday. It was so successful, that all future revolutions were cancelled forever. A lesbian and her lover [...]

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