Plague i. Always there has been this hunger & this need to disguise it. In the invisible background of Van Gogh’s Cypresses is a son...

cooking lessons my mother brings only a plastic bag to California. for you, she says, handing the miniature kitchen equipment for playing...

Too Much to Ask I can fix him, they say. I can fix her, they say. Why is it that people always try to fix other people? Do they look like...

Childhood self portrait with bike, Twinkle Toes and a little Paul Simon First swimsuit, a cousin’s, that clung like an old woman who’d...

Stop The Time Everyone around Salyn can't wait for the future. Many can't wait for what it brings. Salyn can wait. You see, when she...

As a carefree little girl with a fondness for gargantuan hairbows, I didn’t used to worry about desperate thieves or madmen. But that was...

Sometimes, when things get particularly boring, I like to float way up high, perch myself atop a cloud, and gaze at the world below. It’s...

I am by no means an expert on nature. I’m a naturalist, but not a nature-ologist. I see the world for its intrinsic value, not for the...

This morning’s shimmers trickle from the icy sky and pool in the garden, their golden hands gently prying open basil leaves as they...

Movement 1 Home has a song. The first time I heard it I was standing outside of Incheon International Airport. I was surrounded by people...

Dr. Gevvie Stone Meeghan Ford My Taekwondo teammates and I practiced our backflips, kicks, and sparring runs for four hours straight. My...

Metamorphosis My metamorphosis began when I was a little girl unafraid to express all emotions with my tongue stuck out, and one hand on...

Shithole, she’s thinking, probably. Marie watches as her mother takes careful steps around the small dorm room. Her mother wouldn’t dare...

Predator and Prey I envy the zebra, with her eyes plopped on the side of her head. She sees the lion coming, and she runs. I am a human...

If I Were A Boy then people would not comment on the color of my clothes. Red is too provocative, Yellow is only for the spring, and...

Eris first met her when she was fourteen. She doesn't remember much of that day now. It was the first day of high school, and the entire...

Medusa They called her a monster, transformed from fair maiden into foul creature A girl whose beauty rivaled that of the gods...

imposter syndrome on worse days i look at myself in the tall blurry mirror and i can’t recognize the person staring back at me like a...

No one gets away with a plain life for long. At some point, the unusual will crash in with no benefit of preparation. No forethought. No...

There were entire clots of them in the vines, glowing like velvet lanterns. Sam flicked one in the air, caught it in his mouth with a...