Now, Now by Ashley Kirkland
This many years and you’d think I could do something other than press myself up against tomorrow with my eyes closed. I never used to be this way: laughing as I stare my problems in the face, all I’ll figure it out later. But then again, no one ever said this would happen. I was […]
Aubade by Jonathan Fletcher
The morning is no easier. Behind pinkish clouds, a solid red breaks through, blinding me with brightness. So tired am I of it all, having stayed hopeful the day before, which turned into evening, which turned into night, which turned into anxiety. And despair. And resignation. If there are birds serenading the growing light, I […]
I say this election feels like it’s all happening again and my husband thinks I’m talking about 2016 by Bleah Patterson
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The Morning After the Morning After by Lori D’Angelo
The morning after, my husband told me: Trump won. And I said no, this can’t be right. I just can’t do this again. Then, I said: we need to leave this country knowing we didn’t have anywhere we could go. My children don’t even have valid passports. And we don’t have the cash to pay […]
Acceptable Losses by Raye Hendrix
after the 2024 election Halloween in Texas and a mother dresses her daughter and her daughter’s stillborn daughter in the costumes of the living: beautiful dresses, gold jewelry, painful shoes to impress the unnecessary audience of dark. In Tennessee, the floodwaters are still receding, changing the map. Across the world in Palestine they draw a […]
