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Author: Erica Phelps

flowers on my windowsill

The sun set, my skin burnt red, the beetles had gone from my brain. A porch light turns […]

Posted on May 17, 2025May 17, 2025 May FlowersToronto

The Love I was Given

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When I was fifteen, I fell in love with a girl.

Posted on January 16, 2025January 16, 2025 Individual Drop

To Speak

“For someone so quiet, you seem to have a lot to say.”

Posted on May 31, 2024 Issue #12

Under The Snow

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I felt it next to me.

Posted on February 29, 2024 Issue #11

Could you tell that I am a body already buried?

By Erica PhelpsEditor: Alloe Mak Here I find my mindstolen from sleep and kept inmurmuring voicesand rooms full […]

Posted on November 30, 2023 Issue #10

Chasing Butterflies 

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Writer: Erica Phelps Editors: Amy Li and Alloe Mak I sit here with you on the grass, making […]

Posted on June 25, 2023June 25, 2023 Issue #8

Sit here for a while

Erica PhelpsEditor: Alloe Mak Have you ever found yourselfnestled between horizon and sun,thinking: I could sit here for […]

Posted on May 14, 2023November 29, 2023 Individual Drop

The Half-Human:

I have this dream. I am lying on the floor of my bedroom, my mind smooth, clear and […]

Posted on March 29, 2023November 29, 2023 Individual Drop

Sew my mouth shut

Someone keeps sewing my mouth shutwith stitches that match my skin. My nights are haunted by dreamswhere a […]

Posted on February 22, 2023February 22, 2023 Issue #6

Winter Waves

Oh, how I love the soundthat waves make in winter.A deep breath—a quiet roar,frozen in the depths of […]

Posted on December 20, 2022December 20, 2022 Issue #5

The Gravers

The Gravers arrived every November.  When the vibrant mosaics of October turned into stale and scattered browns; when […]

Posted on November 25, 2022November 29, 2023 Issue #5

Malevolence

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I cannot shake the feeling that someone is watching me.  It is half past midnight, and my window […]

Posted on October 30, 2022November 6, 2022 Issue #4

a beautiful plea

This beautiful plea knows the bounds  of this page. The blood that you gave me that flows Through […]

Posted on October 30, 2022October 30, 2022 Issue #4

Autumn Rain

In my room I wait, hopeful eyes turned up to a hopeless abyss. I sit at my window, […]

Posted on September 25, 2022November 29, 2023 Issue #4

Ophelia

Ophelia of the lonely lake, can you hear me as I do you? You are in my mind, […]

Posted on August 30, 2022August 30, 2022 Issue #3

The Undead

I knew I was undead when I looked in the mirror and saw that my skin was bare. […]

Posted on August 30, 2022November 29, 2023 Issue #3
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