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Jesmyn Ward’s Let Us Descend
Let Us Descend follows Annis, an enslaved girl from a Carolinian rice field, as she is sent away by her sire to New Orleans, Louisiana. During the year she spends fighting for her life on the sugar plantation, Annis encounters various nature spirits who both serve as help and adversaries. One of these spirits is…
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I Press Decline
My words once poured like rivers, soft, honest, unafraid. I wrote you in verses, in whispers, in the spaces between what I said. You heard me, but you never listened, held me, but never stayed. Now you call, like I’m still waiting, like my heart still beats the same. But I have learned the weight…
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A Bird’s Migration
I almost moved to the coast, shrouded in roaring ports. Where time traversed slower, trees pooling their early-vibrancy as memories come and passed. I almost moved the fireflies from their hometown in twilight-dew, a flicker of light caught by few. I almost moved mountains and rivers and storm-clouds and constellations, but that chance was taken…
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Cute Spring Photoshoot Ideas
Many of us love taking photographs, whether of ourselves, with our partner, our family, or with a group of our friends. As the weather warms up, it’s the perfect time to get outside and have a fun-filled spring photoshoot. The joy of capturing these moments is what makes them feel truly special. There’s nothing I…
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For Simona Filiposka, Publishing Blood-Soaked Words Is Like A Dream Come True
Photos courtesy of Simona Filiposka Five years ago, Simona Filiposka turned to poetry as a way to navigate her emotions—now, that passion has led to her debut collection, Blood-Soaked Words. I caught up with the rising poet to discuss her journey, creative process, and what it’s like to see her words in print at such…
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Farewell Wish
When my hard gray heart breaks at the open wet bend, you venture twenty steps to my glen. With the plunk of a coin sunk deep in my depths where I’ve wept ten thousand tears, your lips whisper wishes in my skin. Your knees hit the earth, head heavy in your hands, as you plead…
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Ode To My Goddess
If toxins taste this good I want to kiss you forever, My thoughts are swimming in you Just you and nothing else So why would I want another When everything I ever dreamed of Is all with you. If love was poison Then I’ll gladly die, I heard venom could kill But in this case…
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Our Day Will Come
she had struggled many times in life. some struggles had been easy to handle, some had been a pure nightmare. but with each one, she had learned that there was always an end date, a day when things finally turned, the air feeling a bit lighter, a bit more hopeful and a bit more easier…
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Gothikana By: RuNyx
RuNyx takes us into a dark and mysterious world with the gothic romance, “Gothikana.” This story follows Corvina Clemm, who has been deemed an outcast her whole life. When Corvina arrives at the University of Verenmore, there are many mysteries she finds herself caught up in. Why are there so many secrets and tragedies that…
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Dial My Number
If one day you’re feeling sad, Dial My number. I can’t say I will turn your sadness into laughter, But I can sit with you all day. If one day you’re crying, Dial my number. I can’t say I can stop your tears from flowing, But I can give you my shoulder to cry on.…
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Always Covered Behind His Hat
Keke carried the weight of his dark life everywhere he went. He was raised by parents who were notorious criminals. Keke’s family had almost everything they wanted, but he knew it and never liked it. He was infamous in both the community and at school. Rumors circulated about his toxic and erratic family.” He was…
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A Feeling Of Helplessness
Whether right or wrong, this is purely my perspective or, as Tony Robbins would call it, my hallucination. And as my father, who is crude in his humor, would say, opinions are like assholes; everyone has one. Women are supposed to be strong. Whether it is the truth or not, that is what society says…
