Essai
Contest Winner Spotlight: “Baby Arjun”
“Be there in half an hour.” Pari read the message from Rachel several times. After graduating from their Master of...
Second Person
Artist’s Statement: This piece was created in an attempt to articulate the distance created between myself and the self I present...
I Don’t Have Twenty Dollars for Poetry
This essay is inspired by what I thought would be a late-night tweet, which I am particularly fond of, but...
Contest Winner Spotlight: “The Poetry of A Body”
Olivia and I are on my bed, all geared up to watch porn. My laptop is between us. We split...
A Wake County Resident’s Perspective on Why It’s Important Not to Ban “Gender Queer”
As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a...
Stories of the Earth
She’d first seen shadow puppets when she was five. They were told to sit “Indian style” on the carpet in...
Strangers Curled Together on a Bed
I sanitize my stories like I wash my hands–multiple times a day, scrubbing until they pose no risk to others,...
Butterfingers are Revolutionary | by Athena Dixon
Over the years I chastised myself for being naïve, for inviting him to stay the weekend. That second guessing is...
an open letter read aloud to my sexually-assaulted self while I stare at the floor and shuffle my feet
Click the ‘Read More’ link to listen to the author read her open letter – it’s to herself, and it’s...