Writing is an act of resistance
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Clutching at the Last Straw
By Dini Armstrong After consulting with the elders, they chose to buy Oideacha, approaching life on this tiny Scottish island with all the naivety and determination of youth. Quaker values still rang true to them when they signed on the dotted line: peace, simplicity, integrity, stewardship of the earth. Hamish had years of experience…
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Indian Doll for Sale at the Thrift Store
By Heather Johnson A middle-aged woman, orange hair tightly permed, bones jostling within a threadbare corset, manhandles the wide-eyed Native doll—hands pet imitation-buckskin fringe dress, sewn with plastic beads. A smile parts lips like the sheer cut of a razor as she rubs her thumbs over the doll’s sprayed-on brown skin—as his fingers explored…
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Nuclear Family
Chris Vannoy, a San Diego-based poet, believes that art is essential to the advancement of society. As a poet and a visual artist he has strived to release his imagination into the world for its enjoyment.
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Two poems by Cheryl Dumesnil
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First Day of College Classes, 2036
By John Sheirer “Good morning, everyone,” the professor said looking out at the enthusiastic room full of vibrant young people. She pulled up a class roster on her palm-sized tablet. “When I call your first name, please raise your hand. Okay? First up is Ashley.” “Here,” a woman in the back row called out.…
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Subliminal and Unanimous Dreams of the Future
By Kimberly Kaufman In the shadowy, damp cities of our eon no Martian parent will guilt their children into eating their slimy green protein crumbles with stories of the starving Children of Earth As the dust storms rage above no Martian child will flick internal game consoles, the giant screens their only chance to…
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It Looks Like Dancing
By Otis Fuqua The moon is not out. Deborah is not in bed. A stranger’s silhouette is not rolling toward her like a panther. “Mish Deborah?” a child’s voice asks—Ricardo, at the front of the classroom. The esses catch on his braces. There is no face like a saber-tooth tiger. An eely stripe of…
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Wealth of Nations
By Gemma Cooper-Novack Jeff Bezos wrote a capitalist haiku and we all live in it Gemma Cooper-Novack’s debut poetry collection We Might As Well Be Underwater, a finalist for the Central New York Book Award, was published by Unsolicited Press in 2017. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in more than twenty journals,…
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what’s happening with the boys
By Lou Ella Hickman what’s happening with the boys our prayers & thoughts bullied? bang, bang you’re dead a moment of silence easy access? what’s happening with the boys new laws won’t help video games? bang, bang you’re dead our prayers & thoughts absent fathers? what’s happening with the boys a moment of silence…