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A Slow Decline Farmers wake, farm their fields. Their wives tend hearth and home, chickens, pull milk from cows, slop the pigs. Fishermen...

She dressed herself in the warmest earth tones, leaving the scattered cardboard on the floor. Pulling the screen to her face, she watched...

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My best friend killed herself. Jumped off a bridge on the 13th. Just like that. She rang me beforehand, she sounded happy, too happy;...

I hold the entire room in the pools of my irises. Light fills every part of me, brushing the backs of my knees and caking underneath my...

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To My Handsome City Boy Mr. Jeremy Wittletoo 14 East Hemmingway Road From Ms. Victoria Lee Under tree laden with fruit I write you this...

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Throughout history, brilliant minds and their world-changing discoveries have shaped the course of science. However, for many women in...

“Jan? Jan!”  There was too much to pack. Jan stood in her room, hands clutching her kool-aid dyed hair, staring blankly at the...

Sitting at my desk, I steady my hand and press down on my brush pen, forming the curvature of a lily petal blowing in the wind. I lighten...

I am sitting on my sofa, cocooned in what I have deemed the world’s softest blanket, with a bowl of Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food ice cream in...

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Westernization has managed to penetrate through various cultural spheres, worldwide and its influence can be felt to a great extent....