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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:

Apr 1, 2022

Trash Pandas

By Andrew Scott — People around here call them Trash Pandas. Visitors that come in the silence of the night so, no one can hear or see them.

Mar 30, 2022

Until You Are Prosecuted

By Hanan Kholoussy — How insecure must you be to gang up on her and take turns on her after you drugged her repeatedly. For despite all your

Mar 28, 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 25, 2022

Grateful Just To Still Be

By Loretta Iwaniw-Horne — I have lost a lot of friends abruptly. I've seen them in news feeds, missing pieces of their faces and torsos.

Mar 23, 2022

First Dance

By John L Swainston — Remembered what my grandfather had told me: “Want a girlfriend, make the loneliest girl happy.” Walked up to her,

Mar 21, 2022

Three Poems

By Debbie Cutler — Mary and I talk into the night, sip dessert wine from Alaska, dance to the throb of country blues or rap, listen to

Mar 19, 2022

A March Through Time

By John P Drudge — It clicks and clacks through time like jack boots on government marble. New forms of idolatry and poisoned messages from

Mar 17, 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 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

Mar 13, 2022

Your Reflection

By Rachel Gomez — Would it remind you to nourish yourself, after you promised to never eat again. Because of how guilty you felt after last

Mar 7, 2022

I have heard her voice

By R. Bremner — I hear her voice at the strangest times: at work, during a conference all; walking the dog on a bright sunny day; listening

Mar 3, 2022

Metamorphosis

By Monalisa Parida — There was a girl who lived in a querencia, a secret garden, where love, light surrounds. Enchantress soul uses

Feb 28, 2022

Today's Me

By Lynn White — Maybe you’ll find me in the language of my body, but not in the practiced gestures, the performance, the masquerade that

Feb 26, 2022

BENEATH THE NOBLE TREE…

By Kahlil Crawford — See, one day Al realized he didn't have a point of view beyond what he was taught as a child, so he set out to develop

Feb 24, 2022

Ask Me

By Britta Benson — The spray, the spit, the grit of determination. These are the paperweights keeping the world in her place. Add the fickl

Feb 21, 2022

Aesthetic Criteria

Santana Kamal — You can find murder ugly, but what if it saves you? An arc of abuse by precedented year - you turn into a beautiful monster.

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

Feb 15, 2022

Playground Angst

By Elizabeth Jaeger — Yes, I watched my son hit your son. You thought I was standing off to the side reading a book. But I was watching

Feb 12, 2022

Where is Home?

By Pankhuri Sinha — Getting fixed in that infamous question,‘So where are you from?’or that question, asked somewhat more pejoratively, ‘So

Feb 8, 2022

Frozen Time

By Duane Anderson — The video board displayed that the NYSE was down 10.90 points, the NASDAQ was down 12.68, and the S&P 500 was up .076.

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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