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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.

Explore the themes by prompt below:

Keeping Cool

By Eric Burgoyne — Fred was washing his new Subaru in the driveway in front of the house. A meteorite crashed down in his backyard before he

Aug 21, 2021

Let’s Talk About Fat

By Susan Anmuth — What if the hours I’ve consumed with diets, food plans, new bright starts, still missing the mud pie at Henry’s End in

Jul 28, 2021

The Problem with Chivalry

By Alan Cohen — There are more scars on my heart inflicted by women than there are days in the year. It is better not to love them.

Jun 27, 2021

The Nectar Song

By Yuan Hongri & Translated by Manu Mangattu — A sieve of my soul I weave with lightning of time. And cast it into the interstellar sea of

May 31, 2021

Just Passing Through

By Madge Kaplan — I know we’re both waiting outside a hospital’s locked psychiatric unit. But I won’t be doing this more than once or twice.

May 8, 2021

The House

By Anita Kestin — I have not traveled that route in some time. That place belongs to a time when we thought we were all healthy and when

Mar 20, 2021

Notes from an Agnostic

By Susan Hand — god: I’m going to strip you of your capital letters, if that’s ok with you. If only god would reveal himself, in the flash

Feb 22, 2021

If Only I Moved by Instinct

By D.R. James — Life has been a grand migration to where you are today! Well known wisdom. I didn't know! Otherwise, when those raggedy

Feb 2, 2021

Cutting Loose

By Carol Keegan — Too many of us cut loose at the same time, so the bell curve inverted. Eccentrics at both ends of old norms became the

Dec 29, 2020

I am Purple

By Megan Snedeker — If only you could see that being bisexual isn’t half red and half blue. It’s purple. We’re a beautiful mixture of lost

Dec 13, 2020