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A Love Letter To My Writing Community
Written by Madeleine Minks Art by Lillian Anderson Picture: a girl, eighteen, moving out for the first time in her conscious life. As she walks through the parking lot and up towards the dorm that will be her home for the next nine months, a cat with a limp trails her. His hips sway back… Read more
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May Horoscopes
Written by Madeleine Minks Art by Lillian Anderson For my final set of horoscopes, I’ve decided to spare you all a little. Just kidding. There is no mercy in my heart, not even for finals season. Aries: It’s time to start living in the future and adding pockets to your dresses, Aries! Oh, you don’t… Read more
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20th Century Girl: My Life Out Of Time
Written by Audrey Orenstein Art by Eva Colabatistto A few months ago, one of my pocket watches developed a minor fault—a birthday gift from my grandparents that dates back to the 1880s; it’s my oldest and most treasured timepiece. I went to a jewelry store downtown that specializes in watches to see about getting it… Read more
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An Ode To Roadkill
Written by Sarah Chack Art by Hadley-Rae Balmes There was another dead animal in the road this morning. Two more appeared on the way home from my last day of student teaching. Maybe it’s the arrival of spring and the melting of the salt-filled road slush that’s drawn out the forest’s animals. Maybe they’ve come… Read more
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New York Pizza: Rat-Sized Bites
Poem by Sarah Chack Art by Seven Descheneaux A yellow line confines us to this place, keeps our feet racing across the cracks in the pavement; these are the ley lines of a small world, newly founded magic borders that not even the strongest of us dare to cross. We follow a familiar scent with… Read more
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Firstborn
Poem by Abriella Guertin Pictured: Abriella’s Mom, 2009 a month and five days after 9/11 fourteen days before her 21st birthday my mother had a son a miserable baby colic and constantly crying a list of allergies longer than her loan payments first gen but still stuck in the family curse of a firstborn before… Read more
