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only 20
KC Marshall explores a turmoil-filled relationship in her early twenties and its impacts on her mental health both at the time and years later.
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For what it’s worth
‘For what it’s worth’ is a poem penned in a frantic reflection of the intoxicating and often nauseating sensation of falling in love when you are young.
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floodgates
‘floodgates; is a poem from kī anthony that tiptoes around self-actualisation, desire, and mutual destruction.
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Moonlighting
A piece by Dani Yourukova in which a dungeon-crawling, adventure game is also secretly about the relationship between value and time, the evils of capitalism, and the financial precarity that comes with being a working artist.
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An Ordinary Evening
Five people sit down together at the end of the night to play a game of truth or dare. Little do they know that something else is setting the rules.
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your shame
Overcoming your own shame is hard enough, but how long can we shoulder someone else’s?
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Icebreaker
Coco seeks to break the ice and find what lies beneath the surface. “I like the raw relief of the skies spit – I don’t like exhaust melting down my spine.”
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Scarecrow Season
Let your pretenses unfurl line by line in this disarming poem by new featured writer Casey Lucas.
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coming home for dinner
Around an Asian migrant dinner table, dietary restrictions, chronic illness and queerness become thorny subjects to avoid.
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Black Holes Where My Heart Should Be
A tender poem of gravity and gold by self-declared professional menace El Spurlock.