New Times For Old
By Lynn White — It wasn’t the first pandemic and, as in all the ones before birds sang an opening chorus for the pollen laden bees to hum
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literary
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Expressive
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The
Premier
online
literary
journal
for
Expressive
Writing
JOURNAL OF
EXPRESSIVE WRITING
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.
Explore the themes by prompt below:
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Sep 22
Evolution
By Mona Mehas — When did I become a hermit? I loved city lights, music ringing from local clubs. I'm different now. Was it when I locked
Sep 16
A Day in the Forest
By Birdman313 — Watching and listening as the streams flow down, around and over debris in its path. Their destination is well traveled
Sep 1
An Omen From COVID
By B. Craig Grafton — When everyone went into a panic mode about the COVID, I did too at first. After all, we were told by our government
Jul 1
Anosmia
By Amy Mariaskin — Bloodhounds can smell history. Overlaying past on present: 300 million scent receptors and a face to gather them. My nose
Jun 20
RT-PCR test
By Sandip Saha — I saw how much you can take on yourself, untiring in the adventurous tour we ventured into. RT-PCR and Rapid Antigen tests
May 15
Purple Season
By Genevieve S. Aguinaldo — It was 4 am when you told me that you had the virus. How can you tell me not to panic? We are separated by nine
Jan 18
Dislocated
By Mona Mehas — In the beginning, there was panic, I took all the precautions, stayed home, wore a mask if I went out, had food delivered,
Aug 21, 2023
Lockdown
By Anthony John Ward — It was if the sky had become solidified and I was sheltering beneath a dark cloud, though the landscape stayed the
May 5, 2023
Make it funny—Covid Reflections, Dreams & Nightmares
By Wanda Potrykus — Like the comedy shows though, it seems the Covid-19 virus has no respect for anyone, and it's obviously also totally
Nov 14, 2022
A Nightingale Reaches a Crescendo
By Caroline Reddy — When our soil and soul began to fade, we trapped a nightingale in a cage. I stood stained in remorse forgetting about
Oct 9, 2022
Growing Pains
By Ashley Dayanara Campos — I was a professional translator by age seven, a lawyer by age ten, an accountant by thirteen, and on track to
Aug 13, 2022
Blurday
By Duane Anderson — Welcome to a special event the birth of the new word of the year. Welcome to Blurday, to a new lifestyle, where one day
Jul 5, 2022
Blood Red Moon
By Birdman313 — Regardless of your beliefs, it is often wise to pay attention to nature as it often gives us many signs large and small that
Jun 1, 2022
WINTER MAY COME
By Owolusi Lucky — To the undying locust, how deep your ugly belly. To those who said earth load was heavy, do you see the ocean smiling, or
May 6, 2022
Summertime Lost
By Richard Temple — Nearly eight billion sides to this story but we don't have time for that here. Paralyzed stasis:
Nothing is moving, not
Apr 4, 2022
On Reading and Writing during the Pandemic
By Joyce Bou Charaa — Since the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020, we have been trying to escape the news, the economic crisis
Mar 15, 2022
Inexorable Fate
By Gary Beck — Americans watched on TV as the police were overwhelmed by hundreds of attackers and no one sent reinforcements to defend the
Feb 18, 2022
At Forty
By Yulia Tseytlin — At three, I didn’t shove a thin stick in my mother’s nose, saying ‘corona-test’. At four, when I played school, a mask
Jan 31, 2022
Long Haul Year Two
By Rachel Baum — Another physicians assistant laptop. The doctor is MIA because you are not (ever) sick enough. Pull tight around you your
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