Evening light ripped pink through the sky as Aisha ran up the hill with paint-splotched high tops that didn’t change from season to season. She made her way up the hill to the house overlooking the lake, half-expecting the blue tones of the house to fade, half-expecting the hill to be empty, like the old house withered […]

It was an easy ba-da-bum joke
Not so much funny as clever
A bubble in my chest burst into a million
So they flew out my mouth like a swarm
of butterflies, monarchs flying […]

Rocky Kitchen, a dedicated bodybuilding trainee, had plenty of time to visualize his future chest development during the three hundred mile round trip he made from Vero Beach three times a week.
Several of our staff noticed […]

It’s terrible the sun has escaped.
We wait for it to come back,
to behave like a sun should,
keep us warm, grow our crops.
We freeze ourselves […]

Theoretically, if I were to put my hand against that tree
and kept it there for years and years, the bark
would continue to grow until it enveloped my hand
send leafy tendrils along my arms and under my flesh.
But if I were to stand here for a […]

Our poetry and prose editors Annabella Archaki and Orliana Morag are here with some recommendations for the coming school year! […]