Poetry: 

In the north, the leaves began to change to their seasonal saffron and scarlet as the trees were nearing their inevitable abscission....

I couldn’t wait to wear gold. I had bought this three layered, gold snake chain necklace from TJ-Maxx, with the encouragement of my mom....

Of course, it all starts with a funeral. An end that brings a new beginning, a closing door with blood-rusted hinges that somehow opens...

if an alien from outer space landed in the middle of the ocean at midnight - armed with nothing but its space tech, and the human...

7/9/2010 When my little head reached the bottom of my mother’s hips, the willow tree was still singing in the backyard of my...

Level 8 In December of 2020, two weeks before Christmas, my father died of Covid-19. The numerical rating scale is a pain scale that is...

The boy down the road had barely finished blowing out his candles before they came knocking. His sister screamed as they hauled him away,...

-The Ballad of Pedro: Summer Camp wasn’t the best experience for me, but it could’ve gone a hell of a lot worse. I guess if you want to...

Everything had all happened so fast. Her entire life passed her by in a second, barely giving her time to process one moment before she...

My high school has always had problems with the ceiling. Being a low-rise concrete slab in the middle of what was once rustic farmland...

My mother’s delicate hands shape the dough into a sort of rounded position, leaving a deep opening for the filling. The maseca mixture...

This is where she was killed, we are told. The story smells of leaves on the ground in their death throes; children calling out to each...

Dear ****, Here’s a concept of love that I’ve always wondered about: would you love someone else if they treated you the same way as your...

“It’s only fair”, said the president as he announced the remaining ARK would be decided by a lottery. It was a culling of the lucky ones,...

“Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud...