- In the Morning – poem by Alissa McKinney
Waking up early in the morning Preparing breakfast and waking the girls With a good-morning Thoughts begin into swirls In mommas brain who is all alone She thinks about how she will make do How can she pay all of the bills Buy the groceries and clothes Will she need help from others Or can… Continue reading In the Morning – poem by Alissa McKinney - A Natural Cycle – poem by Gabryelle Fullen
The ink black sky appears almost like void Little white dots scattered astray A silver moon completes the heavens The faint white glow graces the land The pond below fractures the picture Bullfrogs croak and crickets chirp The sky shifts now to a baby blue Fluffy clouds float above the land The fiery sun casts… Continue reading A Natural Cycle – poem by Gabryelle Fullen - 6-word Story Contest (or a few more words)
A Very Short Story Contest (Deadline: May 31, 2024): The story goes that Ernest Hemingway won a bet by writing a short story that ran fewer than ten words (For sale: baby shoes. Never worn). We would like to make a similar bet with you. Write a great short story in ten words or fewer. See all… Continue reading 6-word Story Contest (or a few more words)
The Spring/Summer 2023 issue is here…
Wilder Forest – Amelia Achmad / Who Am I? – Tracy Parsons / Toyed With – Amy DeAngelis / Time – Kristen Booker / The Island Hard to Find – CSR / The House – Mackenzie Durand / The baby she once was – Josie Jacobsen / Old Room – Rosemarie Rodriguez / Making Sound – Shawn Mitchell / Life’s Paths – Timothy Roy / Haiku – Mystie Ford / four ways to find fall – Zoe Feydenkevez / Element – Karlie Moriarty / Dream Maven – Cassandra Cook / Death Carnival – AJ / Dear 20-year old Loretta – Loretta Rix / Cards – Charlie Mark / Breathe – Angela Tindell-Gula / A Rose for Homer – Fatima Bergman
Image by Briana Graves
The print edition is here! Look for copies around HCC…
Recent Issues
Spring/Summer, 2022
Poems: I Would Like to be a Forest – Miranda Brunette / Light and Dark – Madelaine Rondeau / Metapoem – Alina Antropova / Why Can’t I Be Something Else? – Miranda Brunette / The Night – Bryan Gonzalez-Palma / Always Going On – Eva Sweeney / Grey Love – Brandon Eldred / Deep – Melissa Rodriguez / Believing in Love – Jaysha Mejia / Fragments of your Lullabies – Mackenzie Renshaw / Family Psyche – Anonymous / Young, Inhuman, and Unsure – E.S / Past Lovejoy Road – Eva Sweeney Fiction and Other Prose: Why Can’t I Live in a Bob Ross Painting? – Molly Kenney / A Day that Used to Be Exciting – Maelene Zavala / Labwork – Kennedy Baxter / The Mirror – Calei Johnson / Saloon – Axel Bou-Montes / The Good Die Young – Anthea Kaplan / Grace – Aaron Brown
Fall, 2021 – Winter, 2022
Prose: Anthea Kaplan / Katie Nagel / Bianca Roncarati / Eric Duni / Emma Lipinski / Calei Johnson / Sophie Bennett / Chrysta Basham Poetry: Alina Antropova / Cameron Keating / Andrew Nichols / Monique Jesus / Melissa Rodriguez / Olivia Downs / Sara Davis / Sarah Toste Drama: Nexus Hannus
“Leave me flowers, leave me holly. Leave me honeysuckle and come and watch me cross over into the light.“
From “Flowers for Nobody” by Anthea Kaplan
Spring, 2021
Poetry: Alina Antropova / Morgan Rhindress / Andrew MacDonald / Jason Kelly / Melissa Rodriguez / Jess Prince / Tugc Caglar Prose: Sara Cowell / Piper Smythe / Nexus Hannus / Banen Mustafa / Michelle Melnik/ Melissa Mansfield / Abby Agron / Miranda Cuddy / Isaiah Colon / Annmarie Arduino / Erin Melvin / Dan Lavign / Emily Tan
“Do this at night, when you have little reason to be out and the pressure of purpose climbs your limbs like ivy.“
From “7 Places to Go (When You’re Young and Broke” by Alina Antropova
Fall 2020
Poetry Jillian Smith / Skylah Colon / Clara Boem / Machelle Kelley / Samary Ramos / Alina Antropova / Alex Suarez / Todd Cummings / Melissa Rodriguez / Piper Smythe / Erick Rivera-Gonzale Prose+Fiction Dominick Valentine / Kristen Booker / Morgan Orszulak / Annmarie Arduino Art+Design Sarah Riffenburg / Rachel Bellenoit / Piper Smythe
“Acid rain falls hard / soaking the broken and Poor / with wrathful eyes“
From “Dancing with Dante” by Samary Ramos
Spring 2020
Coriann Willingham / Melissa Rodriguez / Najy Knee / Emily Tan / Jordan Cooper / Todd Cummings / Patrick Olszewski / Machelle Kelley / Jillian Smith / Jillian Beach / Piper Smythe / Andrea Veras
“I spin tales with heathens, and have charmed a concrete rose”
From “This is Not a Love Story” by Emily Tan
Fall 2019
Brianna Kane / Alaina Henry / Jenna Langlais / A’knesha Davis-Darkwah / Veronica Meehan / Alan Meyer / Sierra Blake / EmilyRose Navarro / Piper Smythe / Luca Oddo
“The vibrations were overwhelming, like a blue whale singing in my skull, and I lost myself in an ocean of nothing. My thoughts, my memories. I couldn’t call them mine.”
From “I Cleared my Mind” by Piper Smythe
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