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 […]
Turning Point by Matt McGee
I came into the Carl’s jr, hungry and with a near-dead cell phone. I put in my order. An older man sat alone in the dining room, reading a book. I’d just sat down, plugged in my cell to see that magical, relieving lightning bolt on the battery icon. The old man kept reading. The […]
untitled by Des DeVivo
today i wear the colors of my country. red; of angry, bloodshot eyes. white; the stricken pallor of my complexion. and royal blue; bruises won by falling for hope. ~ https://www.desdevivo.com/
