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How to Bake a Star
By Quang Pham - 1st place
May 17, 20221 min read
The Least I Can Do Is Be a Good Daughter
By Hannah Johnson
May 17, 20221 min read
Life-Time Campaign
By Gabriela Leon
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An Abuse
By Lily Estrada
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Moon Fall
By Janet Childs
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Slow Rise of Seeds
By Janet Childs
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An Abuse
By Lily Estrada
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Dark Waters
By Lily Estrada
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My Neighborhood
By Melody Fuentes
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I'm Always a Poet
By Hannah Johnson
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Spring Equinox
By Liza Kramer
May 17, 20221 min read
First Gen Reminder
By Gabriela Leon
May 17, 20221 min read
Ink Salvarion
By Gabriela Leon
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I AM
By Quang Pham
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Twister
By Quang Pham
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Untitled 02
By Chelsea Rufo
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Pandemic Rebirth
By Huma Saleem
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Dinner Party
By Sam Scott
May 17, 20221 min read
In Person Again
By Sam Scott
May 17, 20221 min read
Patchwork
By Natasha Shirkhodaei
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Selene's Shards
By Ethan Le -- I wander empty rooms, mourning my beloved . I carry a glass mannequin, her fragile limbs trembling in my arms. I hug her tight, craving warmth, craving presence. I dropped her. I lost her again. Oh, Selene, why ? I plead. I do not care. I grab the shards, hugging them once more. They pierce my chest, embedding in my lungs, slicing through a heart still stubbornly beating. Blood mixes with sorrow, but I do not let go. I whisper apologies to no one. The glass we
Feb 11 min read
Prompts Instead of Bread
By Ethan Le -- The century teaches us to rely on robotics, playing friendly with an artificial being. We celebrate machines that string words together, while children in Gaza string empty water bottles across scorched courtyards, praying for a drop of rain in the barren wasteland. Knowledge once asked us to sweat, to wrestle with silence, to carve meaning by hand. Now we drift, weightless, our thoughts prefabricated, our days dissolving into the hum of servers. These machine
Feb 11 min read
To my mother, on the day of her retirement party
By DS Maolalai -- what will they do without you there tomorrow? likely the same things they'd do if you'd stayed. if the whole place were going to fall into pieces it would fall down then on you as well. go to athens – why not? they have reasonable fish at what I've heard are reasonable prices. go to italy too. we won't miss you because I know that you'll call. there is more in this world than a cleanly typed personnel document. I can't count the amount of times I've thought
Feb 11 min read
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