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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:
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Plums
By Kimberly Rowe — A woman approached me and asked if I could give her anything for food. Uncomfortable, I told her I don’t carry cash,
Feb 22
Living in the Land of I Don’t Know
By Lulu Logan — Living in the land of I don’t know, waiting for direction for which way to go. Waiting for the voice of the One who will
Dec 30, 2024
Races
By Anita Nahal — I call my hair wild when it’s not set. The way I like it. Right down to each curl’s twisting bit. I fret and fume that I’m
Jul 22, 2024
Privilege
Craig Kirchner — In the third grade, public school privilege is knowing you are one of the teacher’s favorites. Of course, it cuts both ways
Mar 29, 2024
Prince Charming Speaks after the Divorce
By Linda Leedy Schneider — Some things are never meant to be Happily Ever After. Though now Julia’s incessant talk, her demand I dress for
Mar 4, 2024
Considering my essence
By Antonia Deignan — I was fixing a light bulb. It was a tiny one, no larger than my thumb. It lived in a salt rock lamp. The salt rock lamp
Nov 28, 2023
Bipartisan
By James T. Stemmle — Just wondering about my white privilege,
whether it’s needed to believe the universe is friendly. God loves everyone.
Mar 21, 2023
Love is starting to feel like a privilege
By Mia Maisha — We dream of being the first ones in our families to keep a partner. Love is starting to feel like the bench our ancestors
Feb 2, 2023
Erratic Orbit
By Gary Beck — The sun rises late,
sets earlier, but some of us hardly notice, bound to city cycles, wake, rise, hygiene, rush to work on
Jan 15, 2023
Police Pulling Me Over
By Karol Nielsen — I needed a car for my new job as managing editor of a weekly newspaper covering murders, drugs, schools, and communities
Dec 6, 2022
The Darkest Everything
By Taté Walker — am buried so deep
and dark in your glorious universe, the obsidian space around everything so rich with unexplored life.
Nov 12, 2022
My Strong Fingers
By Audrey Geliga — My strong fingers have held my children when they needed me the most and in times when I just wanted a hug and to feel
Oct 3, 2022
A Dawn with You
By Shalini Yadav — A striking crack of dawn at the parapet, removing the murk within one more day, neat and beautiful,
brightening further
Sep 4, 2022
Summer of (20)69
By Ian Willey — Imagine how that scene would have played out if Adams and his ne'er-do-well friends were Latino, Middle Eastern, or Black.
Jun 19, 2022
The Right Side of White
By T. A. Johnson — Understanding the complexity of being Black in America is hard for most White People to see, but it’s hard for anyone to
May 2, 2022
5 Tankas
By Sergio Inestrosa — Born among the poor. God himself. Serene night ... To guide shepherds, the brightness of a star. Very early in the
Apr 10, 2022
Roles We Play
By Jeremiah K Durick — Little more than a toddler he wanted to do the work we did – dishes, vacuuming, raking and
anything else we were
Mar 28, 2022
BABY BOOMERANG
By Mark Blickley — My Baby Boomer generation has been weaponized into a baby boomerang that cuts down all who are different then we are.
Mar 18, 2022
Overlooked Privilege
By Nicole Rhodes — The day he forgets me, the day he talks to me like just another waitress, like just another friendly stranger, I don't
Feb 5, 2022
When The Tables Turn
By Sydney Dabney — Imagine if you were in our shoes. Imagine if the roles reversed. Us, the oppressor. And you, the oppressed. The ones who
Dec 22, 2021
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