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THEMES by PROMPT
We publish writing using a series of prompts as an entry point for exploring emotions, personal histories, shared truths, joy, grief, shame, and those themes that matter most to us in our hearts.
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Words that Burn Bright
By Daksh Bajaj — Don't bottle up the pain in your heart. Cry it out, let feelings play their part. Don't hold the fury burning bright. Weave
Feb 3
In Just One Sleep…
By Audrey Geliga — 2023 was going to be a good year. My dad’s cancer was in remission. My kids were doing well in school. My husband and I
Dec 2, 2024
My Path to 100 Years of Age
By Dr. Sidney Trubowitz — What it’s like to be almost 100. At this point in my life, I have a tendency to fixate on the physical—my trouble
Oct 1, 2024
WHITE HAIR
By Grzegorz Wróblewski — The old mare no longer fit in the expensive stables. She was gray and lame, so her owners sent her to a
Aug 17, 2024
It’s in Our Nature
By R James Sennett Jr — Nature found the humor today. Tripped over it. Trickster! Tickling the soft belly of the babies. Baby animals.
Jul 12, 2024
Underscore Cool
By Benjamin Nardolilli — I went in search of prospects, found leaves, golden and ruby red, then ended up in a wild containment where I
Apr 5, 2024
Pain
By Judith Gray — Her son lay limply on a tiny hospital bed, his tanned, muscular legs protruding from beneath a rumpled bed sheet.
Feb 1, 2024
In the Wind
By John P Drudge — Over the ridge, where we came of age, where we saw the end of forgiveness and the slanted wind scratching tracks across
Sep 19, 2023
Whose Life Is It, Anyway?
By D.R. James — A dingy ladybug just slammed into this split-ended web of grass as if shot from an organic cannon for a miniature net.
Aug 19, 2023
Ask me. About today.
By Barbara Simmons — Today I have breakfast with my friend whose new haircut I praise, knowing that it comes from her chemotherapy meds
Jun 21, 2023
A POEM KNOCKS
By Noelle Sterne — A poem knocks, born in distant chambers. Embryonic words swim, wind through curving caves of mind, break through curving
May 3, 2023
Massachusetts
By Robert Knox — I am ready to forgive Florida, forgive Texas. They know not what they do, though they sure as well ought to, but I cannot
Feb 15, 2023
The broken soul in my homeland
By Pawel Markiewicz — When I first read about a wartime-labor-camp in Bielsk Podlaski on the Internet, it was an autumn day a few weeks ago.
Jan 2, 2023
THE TRIATHLON
By Judith Morgan Gray — I am standing knee deep in the open water of Lake Washington in a roped off area close to the shore. It is 6:30 am
Dec 24, 2022
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Caregiver
By Madge Kaplan — The long-distance caregiver always worries. About the home aides coming in and out of her father's home, most of whom she
Nov 16, 2022
Children's Reaction To Killings
By Hector Rodriguez — Children are watching the news. They see, feel and fear danger. There are killings in neighborhoods. There are
Nov 2, 2022
LOFT BED
By Noelle Sterne — In the two-room, graduate-school apartment, one-eighth of a brownstone whose only virtue was eleven-foot ceilings, my new
Sep 14, 2022
MMIW
By Casey Yasuda — Meet me in November, when everything is red, to the only time when my sisters’ names
aren’t unsaid. MMIW. But only in
Aug 24, 2022
Hybrid Prose with Syd Barrett
By Mimi Bordeaux — If I chose prose to express myself would you want to be close? Dream on a lake shimmering gold is light flashing drake
Jun 26, 2022
Spring’s Song
By Rupsingh Bhandari — The stream inside the jungle carries the messages of festive spring, singing its nursery rhyme heads to grow down.
May 13, 2022
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