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Sanne Bergh

"The phase of deliberation: the most spectacular fact I know about Earth is that she’s resilient."

Judith Skillman

"I admit he was a provider for sister yam / & brother spud, snot-nosed children / who went off & had their own children"

Brittany Ackerman

"How many labors until I can untangle these invisible threads of pain I cling to? I wish I wasn’t tied to them. I wish I could rid myself of this ordeal, find the road back, seize an elixir, be cast among the stars, no longer a burden but a shimmering glow above."

Nick Gregorio

"A follow-up to Hellfire Girl’s last text never came. It was a relatively quiet night crime-wise. And there was only so much static and police code one person could listen to in a single evening. So Doom Boy fired up the Doom Mobile and began heading toward home."

Shannon Frost Greenstein

"in Heaven I could forget how I drink Diet Coke to fill my stomach, to quiet / my ravenous hunger, to fill the hole in my core I am still too broken to fill with food."

Shannon Frost Greenstein

"what do spiders dream about/succulent flies/the perfect web/early-morning summer breezes drifting over an exoskeleton dotted with dew"

Ava Hedouf

Step 1: Gather your ingredients This is the way my story starts. Not at 1pm on a Saturday afternoon, fetal,…

Francesca Della Bona

"Her son-shaped thing never answers. It looks back at her with pits instead of eyes, black and bottomless. She digs deeper and deeper into them - clawing, searching - and she knows that one day she won’t be able to re-emerge."

Janice Odell

"This big love, like a / clear, meandering / stream in the canyon, / has faithfully shaped us."

Edith Friedman

"Turning a mother voice on and off. Slow at saying some things / in America. Regret never singing in a rock band."