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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.
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Feb 5, 2021
Some Days
By Abha Das Sarma — I ache, for voices. Angry, academic, anguished. To drown in, to hear myself. Some days, I ache for age, that I could
Feb 2, 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
Jan 30, 2021
I Won't Lose Myself
By Mark Tulin — Despite everything, I’m still here. I know because I can hear my breath, feel my pulse, see with human eyes. I know I am
Jan 28, 2021
Dear Me
By Julianne Carew — I know you think your life is over. It even looks like it’s over. You’re on the floor of a hotel room, covered in dried
Jan 25, 2021
Religiously
By Gale Acuff — I'll go to Heaven when I die to be judged saint, or damn-near, or sinner and then be kept up yonder or booted be-low to the
Jan 20, 2021
Walk
By Philip Berry — A murdered tree throws splayed roots in welcome, the grain revealed in a lightning rent swerves and curls in ways that
Jan 16, 2021
The Sour Cherry Tree During Quarantine
By Claire Doll — For a few several months, I watched the world from my window only. If I woke up early enough, the sunrise waited for me, a
Jan 13, 2021
Vocal Exercise Under Pressure
By Madge Kaplan — When it’s my turn, I’m at a loss for a tragic story so make one up. I falsely proclaim that my vocally talented older
Jan 10, 2021
The Bridge
By Maria Adeola Sheey-Adekale — You probably think that ‘white privilege’ doesn’t belong to me. How could it when my skin is brown? But I
Jan 5, 2021
I Refused to Wear a Mask
By Priya Patel — High risk, low on practical common sense, I would strut around, basically a spokeswoman for COVID to attack. It took many
Jan 2, 2021
Overdue
By Anne Mikusinski — All my borrowed books have had their dates advanced again,
affording me more time to get to know the people who
Dec 29, 2020
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 23, 2020
African Society and Achievement
By Josiah Ikpe — As much as I tell a story about how relegated Africa is, I also have to tell the story of how she inspires us to spread and
Dec 20, 2020
Covid Christmas
By Samuel Strathman — Haven’t seen a tall stack of Christmas trees all year,
just their shadows looming, miserly watchmen scrutinizing the
Dec 17, 2020
Fear
By Sergio Inestrosa — The persistent fear of contagion has robbed me of sleep, and the hours in my bed have become a torment, a sea of ​​
Dec 15, 2020
Contaminated River of Politics
By Bhuwan Thapaliya — Despair peeped through
the forehead of Mt. Everest, spreading marooned fluid
through the skies. The vultures
Dec 13, 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 9, 2020
Today, I am the Girl who is Free
By Linda M. Crate — Being a woman and a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, having Black family members and friends, having friends of
Dec 4, 2020
Many Things
By Robert Knox — I am grateful for the nurse who told me her name and who then asked me to tell her my birthdate, which I managed, and
Dec 1, 2020
She's No Longer My Best Friend
By Dipti B. — We asked and we claimed we were fine, however, I am pretty sure we both knew we were not really fine. Seriously, no one is
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