Every new hire must don the skin of a beast and perform a violent ritual daily at this family-friendly theme park.
Dark
Girl, missing, presumed alive
This microfiction charts the journey of a girl overwhelmed by expectations as wildfires rage around her.
He & She
One Girl… One Love… where did it lead her?
meat
This poem is a classic extended metaphor and an angry feminist poem about a woman’s relationship to food and the kitchen.
Scaredy Cat
My obsession with fear started with my cousin’s scary stories and turned into a competition with my brother. While convincing myself to enjoy horror, I created monsters that haunted me in the dark.
Letter to Myself
This piece was written to myself, and is a reflection of the self-hatred that I often feel as a teenage girl. It also depicts the enveloping and consuming nature of my anxiety.
<8 year old>
A poem about witnesses who have kept their mouths shut.
Blackout
This poem is a climate-change activism piece that follows mother nature’s crystalized tears as they pelt down on Earth, causing a blackout in a hospital where a guilt-ridden man awaits death.
The Princess
A broken Princess discovers a power that she held in herself from the beginning… But most importantly- Who Is This Princess?
Catharsis D’Être
This poem is dedicated to “re-becoming” during the healing process.
Disney Princess
Mia, a sixteen year old girl, struggles with body dysmorphia when her friends ask her to be a Disney Princess for Halloween.
The Corpse
The Corpse is a found poem based off of the Metamorphosis.
Hong Kong Blackout Poem
This a black out poem taken from pre-existing original prose regarding the failed revolution in Hong Kong.
oysters & ceviche
i am suffocated in it.
Subway Creep
An evocative piece of flash fiction meant to draw the reader into the author’s encounter with a so-called subway creep.