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Writing
Here you'll find every piece of writing in every style that we publish.
"I hate writing. I love having written."
– Dorothy Parker


Pareidolia
Image ID: A grid of circular images on a dull yellow background, identical except for a small dot that moves locations, changing each...
Yutian Liu
May 30, 20231 min read
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untitled libel
Image ID: A 5 panel comic with the logo for The Cigna Group that reads “this is a threat & a promise!!!!!!!!!!”
Elton Connell
May 30, 20231 min read
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Sorry About The Worms
Image ID: Text on an off-white background that reads “SORRY ABOUT THE WORMS” in thick, curved black lettering. The words are surrounded...
Ceilidh Birkhahn
May 30, 20231 min read
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you dont belong here
Image ID: A crocheted rectangle that reads"You Don't Belong Here" in black and red text.
Kit Montgomery
May 30, 20231 min read
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twenty and some change
Image ID: Black text on a white background in the style of typewriter print. Occasional words in red ink are overlaid on the rest of the...
Lauren Kingsley Schoepflin
May 30, 20231 min read
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TV Guide
Image ID: A collaged image against a black background. There is a photograph of a waterfall behind a plastic armchair, which has an...
Mead Thorpe
May 30, 20231 min read
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Disco
Image ID: A collaged image of a black and white dance hall, halved by the face of a young girl. There is a banner across the center that...
Mead Thorpe
May 30, 20231 min read
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Iconoclasm
Image ID: A gridded comic depicting marble statues, peacock feathers and jellyfish, with text in speech bubbles throughout.
Magdalene Ma
May 30, 20231 min read
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if i wave to your memory
Image ID: An illustration of a person with their back to the viewer. They are holding a yellow envelope. A pile of envelopes are on the...
Ceilidh Birkhahn
May 30, 20231 min read
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The Gouger
Image ID: A 12-panel comic depicting a cat and human character, and their interactions with an ink knife and a tub of ink.
Cam Collins
May 30, 20231 min read
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hello hello my sweetness
Image ID: There is an illustrated pink colored girl to the far left laying on her back. She is laying on grass under a dark blue night...
Daniela Loza
May 30, 20231 min read
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Most of the Time
Image ID: A quilted banner with black text and screen printed notebook paper patterns reads "Most of the time I forgive you, it's easier...
Isabel Steffes
May 30, 20231 min read
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and it’s not up for debate
Image ID: text reading, "trans men are men, trans women are woman, nonbinary people are, and it's not up for debate," over a digital...
arthur arthur
May 30, 20231 min read
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2.6 million times
Image ID: text reading, "in the last 3 months, the word 'faggot' has been tweeted 2.6 million times," over a digital collage of myself...
arthur arthur
May 30, 20231 min read
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Heaven Descends on America
Content warning: sexual content Image ID: A blackout poem and a photograph, centered on a white square surrounded by black. The blackout...
Alex Bortell
May 30, 20232 min read
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Unidentified Woman
Image ID: "Unidentified Woman" is a poem based on a photograph from the Lorraine Hurdle papers. The photo was likely taken between 1942...
Teddie Bernard
May 30, 20231 min read
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White Sky
Right now is the sweet beginning It hasn’t come in yet It’s all descriptions of light, land, branches, I’m oblivious to posture,...
Eleanor Wardlaw
May 30, 20231 min read
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Untitled
From the start, they urged me to see, "To believe is to know. Perception is truth." But then they silenced my curiosity, "Hiding is...
Aurora Huang
May 30, 20231 min read
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two pieces
i have the overwhelming urge to move away, but the problem is that i don’t know where to, and i don’t know where from i can’t move by...
Molly Kouzes
May 30, 20232 min read
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Excerpts from The Found Journals of the Angel in Black (Part Four)
Trigger Warning: Violence, murder, manipulation, depressive themes, and drug use ENTRY XXI: I’ve returned from the most deadly trip: one...
M. Lyne
May 30, 20236 min read
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The End of Her Golden Age
The moon was too big the night Mei got the letter. She unlocked her mailbox and pulled out a stack of coupons, letters, notices. She...
Teddie Bernard
May 30, 20235 min read
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Snowbird/Sunbird
I was born during the time of year where all the love and warmth from Christmas fades away into winter. Where the light of the sun nearly...
P. Rasmussen
May 30, 20231 min read
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radiator
i think that the radiator in my house may be broken the temperature gauge is way off, its either much too hot or much too cold; cold air...
Molly Kouzes
May 30, 20232 min read
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Possession 1981
Bloody on the blanket And bleeding out Sopping wet and pathetic And you want to hold it You want your arms With cuff cuff muscle Muscle...
Ethan Allen
May 30, 20231 min read
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Excerpt from Nightguards
The Devil clapped his hands together, the sound louder than a gunshot in the still night as a grin sprung up on his mouth, bathed in red...
Sam Donnell
May 30, 20236 min read
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My Grief, My Transgression
Sometimes grief looks like a vase¹ of flowers² from your well-intentioned friend when your grandfather finally dies. Don’t take finally...
Cieneca Cooke
May 30, 20234 min read
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My Dear Oneirologist
They met at a formal occasion in fall. It was half a week ago. On their way back to the city, they introduced themselves through those...
Yun-Shen Li
May 30, 20232 min read
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The Wait
The man chair is in great pain waiting for the arrival of a loved one The boundaries are set and no one can come close At night, blood...
Mingzi Ma
May 30, 20231 min read
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Bring Your Umbrella
It’s raining. ’. ’. ’. ’. ’. ’. ’. ’. ’. ’. ’. ’. ’. ’.
Mingzi Ma
May 30, 20231 min read
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Sundays Pass Quietly Now
There is cooking, and washing dishes, and every afternoon the bed gets fresh sheets, crumbs from the past week swept off the surface of...
Melanie Juarez
May 30, 20231 min read
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WHEN THE DOG DIES
The girl and the dog awaken in the same room. The light coming in from the small window is cold, the blue-gray tones of Midwestern...
Melanie Juarez
May 30, 20232 min read
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Love
Love in triangles Love in pairs Love in opposites Love in equals Love retroactively Love the future Love in circles Love in waves Love in...
Nathalie Rozanes
May 30, 20232 min read
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Lessons From Beneath the Soft Dirt (Autumn)
Autumn 1. The leaves are far more interesting than the house. From the front yard, the house seems grand. But from your fixed position in...
Sidne Kate
May 30, 20231 min read
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⋆。°✩ Stars ⋆。°✩
Dark cumulus clouds were scattered across the night sky. I could hardly see the twinkling stars, though I was sure they were peeking...
Kristen Lee
May 30, 20233 min read
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The Orbiter
Two minutes had passed even though it felt like a full night's sleep. Your motoric functions begin to come back online. Moving your hand...
Jack Andrews
May 30, 20233 min read
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A discussion between artists
She asks me What do you do and I tell her Pick a word from the library of everything you know and make it real and Find the greatest most...
Hazel Meerson-Hendrie
May 30, 20231 min read
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Garden in the Wild 野外的花园
The concept of “Self” is an incredibly fragile one, resembling a wool-soft slime with a hint of vitality. Just like a newborn, it blinks...
Xiran Sunny Sun 孙熙然
May 30, 20232 min read
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If this is the end
if this is the end, then when did it start? Life is eternal – infinite I am the sun the soil the water the air purify what is unclean and...
Ezra Agustin
May 30, 20231 min read
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Stuck on a Ship
It was late in the nebulous night when The Herakles was stopped in the middle of its charted course through the near unending inky black...
Fae Myers
May 30, 20235 min read
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Envy For The Trees
I often find myself feeling envy for the trees Their roots reach down, deep down into the earth — Grounding them to one place forever I...
Molly Kouzes
May 30, 20231 min read
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Cirrus
Pinching lightly Against my head Your head pulses Against you I lay softly With you I fall Clenching you tightly Against your chest My...
Kira Palmer
May 30, 20231 min read
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Cicada
When I was younger I lived in an area Where the cicadas sang loudly and vibrantly The trees seemed to vibrate and buzz during the summer,...
Molly Kouzes
May 30, 20231 min read
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Brick and mortar
I wonder about your shoes Did you save for them Bit a fingernail, clicked purchase Were they a present from your mom Practical, wink wink...
Ethan Allen
May 30, 20231 min read
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Beautiful Decay
3:00 pm: Still no signs of resurrection It has been so long since you last departed. Another hard battle fought and won A professed evil...
Adia Cupid Davis
May 30, 20231 min read
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AM / PM
Sometimes I wake up and I’m empty, ribcage hollow, And I take a pill and I think I should be able to hear the capsule clattering down, a...
Ceilidh Birkhahn
May 30, 20231 min read
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a salt shaker for so many past unkings
It is that I should learn so much of a soul backwards, snow rising off the mountain trembling air sprung and singing, singing, shoulders...
Els Deitz
May 30, 20231 min read
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Stages of Sainthood
candle wax dribbles Finish the last box of multiplication as the sound of howling gets louder. A man’s muffled screams and a dog’s...
Isabela Ortega
May 30, 20233 min read
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Don't You Worry
Floor loom weaving Two panels each measuring 22" x 36" Cotton warp, glow in the dark thread, various synthetic weft yarns Text is from...
Mol Stucko
Jan 22, 20231 min read
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Specimen Poems
A drawing of three poems pinned into the wall: each follows the structure for labeling insects in collections, with a species (or title)...
S. Mark
Jan 22, 20231 min read
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An excerpt: PPP
Clockwise from top left: 1. An image taken from above of a pigeon sitting with its wings tucked in. 2. dissatisfaction and dis-...
Bird
Jan 22, 20231 min read
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