I blinked and there she was. An old woman wrapped in layers of clothes, a crumpled paper doll with a conductor’s hat.
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Xoxo510 reminded us that movements don’t start with spotlights.
sun-kissed monarch landing on freckled nose.the gentle whisper of willow’s wind. what it would mean to resign down […]
Edited by Alloe Mak, Oliver Francis Baker, and Annika Budhwani When I began to love her, I folded […]
Edited by Alloe Mak, Alyssa Zhang, and Sasha Rose Penwarden The start of the summer of my life […]
Even as a writer, there is not a word in the English alphabet to describe the pride I feel for BrainScramble.
This box is my means of vision and communication and a newfound, intrinsic piece of me. Others experience me through it – so why shouldn’t it be considered an extension of my being?
When I receive the same words, I take reprieve in the knowledge that someone, even if it’s not me, especially because it’s not me, knows that I will keep fighting.
My prevailing prayer and five star review: I will return again.
But I don’t fear what’s behind my door anymore; I don’t recognize the footsteps walking past it. The sound of my palace crumbling was once deafening; now it lingers quietly in the background. I look forward to silence, for once.
Both of us sitting, static, waiting to be cut open and consumed.
“You can’t keep doing this,” she inhaled, her breath shaking. “You’re going to die doing this, do you understand?”
When I first saw the Abounaddara Shorts Exhibit at BAMPFA early in the first semester, it was a […]
i. We patterned the sky with our spit, bellies down on the linoleum floor, to the rhythm of […]
I step in at N 52nd Street Station. The fluorescent lights flicker, then settle into a steady hum, […]
It is winter break now and we are together, listening to nine people play nine different instruments in nine different rooms, all singing one song.
A tall oak tree shifting in the sunlight of a distant memory.
Sickened smog trembles on the horizon, smelling of brimstone, same as always. They sip and wait, slowly, slowly sip and wait.