Movement 1 Home has a song. The first time I heard it I was standing outside of Incheon International Airport. I was surrounded by people...

Dr. Gevvie Stone Meeghan Ford My Taekwondo teammates and I practiced our backflips, kicks, and sparring runs for four hours straight. My...

Metamorphosis My metamorphosis began when I was a little girl unafraid to express all emotions with my tongue stuck out, and one hand on...

Shithole, she’s thinking, probably. Marie watches as her mother takes careful steps around the small dorm room. Her mother wouldn’t dare...

Predator and Prey I envy the zebra, with her eyes plopped on the side of her head. She sees the lion coming, and she runs. I am a human...

If I Were A Boy then people would not comment on the color of my clothes. Red is too provocative, Yellow is only for the spring, and...

Eris first met her when she was fourteen. She doesn't remember much of that day now. It was the first day of high school, and the entire...

Medusa They called her a monster, transformed from fair maiden into foul creature A girl whose beauty rivaled that of the gods...

imposter syndrome on worse days i look at myself in the tall blurry mirror and i can’t recognize the person staring back at me like a...

No one gets away with a plain life for long. At some point, the unusual will crash in with no benefit of preparation. No forethought. No...

There were entire clots of them in the vines, glowing like velvet lanterns. Sam flicked one in the air, caught it in his mouth with a...

Paramount The death of a star, mutilated in space, seethes from the ruins of its own fuel It convulses into itself laughing and...

George wasn’t a thief. Her sticky fingers usually only applied to pilfered cookies and midnight snacks, but her nails were already...

Glass She is glass. Skin clear as a cloudless sky, no rainy red spots on her cheeks— She needn’t cry for weeks. Not in front of me. Like...

Heart It lay there Broken into pieces Like a shattered chandelier All of the light drained from its chamber Crimson red, bathed in blood...

Ashley Hall, Paleontologist Sophie Cushman, Archaeologist When Inspiring Girls USA learned that one of their young ambassadors had a love...

Vagary Time fleets. From the yards of Nicosia, she made her way to the stars. The sky holds her journey through the timeline. It feels...

P: How much do you like Tiffany? H: I like her 38%, what about you? P: I’d say 56%. P: Sometimes she’s just so annoying and weird. H: I...

Midnight Delusions It’s midnight / I stand in the downpour of rain / on the corner of 94th / drowning in my misery / the rain is nothing...

Dear Icarus Tell me you loved the sun so much that you gladly burned for it and that each feather on your wings fully embraced the...