Writing is an act of resistance
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just-ice
By Samy S. Swayd don’t drink from this dripping cracked cup, for it’s my own heart— my beats poured into words for broken lines, making this page perplexing and pale. but if you take a taste, you must sail with a deep breath and an active mind, and paint a spirited sign to remind…
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Ode to My Reflection in the Mirror (on just one day)
By Kathy Kremins “I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.” – C.S. Lewis We are better than this No, we are this Always have been Columbus mission schools Tulsa Race Massacre Charlottesville La Operacion children in cages smallpox pipelines voter suppression We are better…
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Sunny Is Going Through a Depressive Episode
By Livvy Krakower “The Manic Pixie Dream Girl exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.” – Nathan Rabin When Sunny was eight years old her mother fell down the stairs. That doesn’t seem important now as you…
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Hollow
By William Palmer What happened January 6 was forgettably minor, the most popular Fox host claimed on June 9, the first night of the House Select Committee’s Report, so forgettably minor he did not allow any commercials during his show, decreasing the chances viewers might stray, or might consider the view that what had…
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Joelle Cantrell’s Fanfiction
By Holly A. Stovall Until the paper that Joelle Cantrell wrote made it to the top of my stack of To Kill a Mockingbird essays to grade for sophomore English at Jackson High, I had been eating clean and feeling good. I was slouching deep into the couch, a pint of Clean Cream sugar-free-non-fat frozen…
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Welcome to our September 2022 issue
Heather Dorn, Writers Resist news, Dia Calhoun, Laura Grace Weldon, Zoë Fay-Stindt, Penny Perry, René Marzuk, Holly A. Stovall, Flavian Mark Lupinetti, Howie Good, Morning-meadow Jones, Jennifer Swallow, Tracy StamperIt’s been hot. Everything’s hot. Global temperatures, national temperaments—even the bees that hover at the birdbath’s edge are plunging into its waters, only to find them warmed by an unrelenting heat dome. What to do? Writers Resist offers a cool escape: Don a wet t-shirt, flop before a fan, and read this issue. In it,…
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A Supreme Proposal
Roe v Wade overturn, reproductive justice, Narrative nonfiction, abortion rights, Katie Avagliano, SCOTUS Dobbs decisionBy Katie Avagliano I’m not saying cannibalism is the only option. If we’re talking animalistic magnetism—the old horizontal tango-—there are other ways to dispose of the sperm vehicles. Sure, arachnids control their own widowhood, and half of all Chinese mantises have copulations that end in the death of the male. In response, though, the…
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Love Songs for End Times
industrial farming, Poetry, climate change, climate crisis, mass extinction, pollution, Zoë Fay-Stindt, end times, superfund site, droughtBy Zoë Fay-Stindt I sing to the green anole in a made-up lizard language— fiddling tongue, whirlwinds and whistle- clucks. He curves his neck, ear hole craned to my porch perch. He pinks his bubble-throat. For years, I saw devil horns peeking from each human head. Yes, the chemical, the highway framed with fields…
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Predators
Poetry, Laura Grace Weldon, social media trolls, urban violence, anti-labor, political corruption, corporate violenceBy Laura Grace Weldon If a grizzly wanders into your social media don’t make eye contact or sudden moves. Abandon the sandwich you were eating, leave the small square of chocolate you saved for last. Sharks often appear in parking garages silent, stealthy, even as you confine your blood’s scent under a coat pulled…