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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:

Jan 23, 2023

Sullen Joys

By Glenn Marchand — By twinges in twilight, suffused, bewildered, and aloof from pegs; rocket wings, severed from emotion, unable to grasp

Jan 21, 2023

Shadow Docket

By Mark Blickley — No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body. Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

Jan 18, 2023

To M.W.

By Gabriella Garofalo — Bad reps, twisty marriages, fractured families. These are the gifts waves left for me on the seashore last night

Jan 15, 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 12, 2023

The Only Time the World is Perfect

By Nolcha Fox — In miniature the world is perfect, once a year at Christmas time. The train runs round the Christmas tree, never going off

Jan 9, 2023

On reaching old age

By Colin Ian Jeffery — Time is fleeting in its passing and does jolt the memory, recalling images of long ago when life seemed to stretch

Jan 6, 2023

My TONGUE IS ALL I HAVE GOT

By Oteeyho Iro — I did not know it's hellish to live on the other end of the gun, always on the target board, that surviving is another

Jan 2, 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.

Dec 30, 2022

Northern Cruise

By Jeremiah K Durick — There must be something here worth the effort. The time spent. The foghorn goes off every two minutes reminding us

Dec 28, 2022

Bee–stingly sister

By Oksana Mauricio — I turned into the bee version, desiring to sting her for interrupting, my Niece and I's conversation. She was not

Dec 24, 2022

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 22, 2022

The Inner Critic Returns from the Dead

By David J. Bookbinder — Foolish boy, foolish boy, foolish boy, why do you torment yourself with ambition when you know as I have always

Dec 20, 2022

Definition of Romantic Love

By Dorothy Dorcine — The intimacy of hearing your voice in the dim lighting of my bedroom. My arms tangled around my pillowcase—I took my

Dec 17, 2022

They won't hear you

By Daun M. Wright — A life is in turmoil, cries for help in the deafening silence of the ignorance of others, in the avoidance of those in

Dec 14, 2022

Deep in the Unmowed Paddock

Kyla St Jaye — My body feels like an episode of hoarders. I’m always hungry. Stacked with debris and loading. Each scrap, bottle top and

Dec 12, 2022

Rebars

By Martin Schwarz — A vortex descends on me of shrapnel and hopelessness. Yet a hunger in my spine hauls me from the afterlife. Born in hail

Dec 9, 2022

Aging in a Time of Pandemic

By Dr. Sidney Trubowitz — This year, on February 4th, I will celebrate my 97th birthday and I consider what changes the ravages of time have

Dec 6, 2022

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 3, 2022

We Didn’t See It Coming

By Diann Logan — When I was Sweet 16, one computer was bigger than any of the classrooms I spent my days in. High School guidance counselors

Dec 1, 2022

The Setting Sun

By Rupsingh Bhandari — Cold breezes inaugurate their evening rally. Shadows gather to incubate night. The sun withdraws its light. Blankets

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THEMES by PROMPT

The Premier online literary journal for Expressive Writing

The Premier online literary journal for Expressive Writing

THEMES by PROMPT

The
Premier
online
literary
journal
for
Expressive
Writing

The
Premier
online
literary
journal
for
Expressive
Writing