Creative Writing

Take a walk through Lydia Host’s Vera- a dreamy speculative fiction filled with magic and mystery. Host’s beautiful prose gives us a look inside a young girl’s efforts to cope with a troubling home life by searching for help in the forest, where nothing is as it seems on the surface.

Nina Fosati’s fiction piece “Dirrty Gurl(z)” is a coming of age college tale about burgeoning sexuality, hypocrisy, and losing yourself in the unfamiliar ocean of young adult relationships.

Ashley Pearson’s fiction piece “Stork” glides between humor and despair in a striking narrative migration. A tongue-in-cheek look at the stork’s symbolic role in childbirth, what home can mean to each of us, and the fickle flight of destiny.

A look into how complicated relationships can be as we grow older, little deaths, wisdom, and personal evolution. Cook covers fascinating topics, including hemp legislations, alcoholism, and the complexity of parent-child relationships.

Lourdes Dolores Follins writes of love and strength in “A Warrior Obliges”, a personal look into the relationship between a granddaughter and grandmother during a time when hope is easily lost.

A satirical flash fiction that explores the struggles and humanity in all of us.

Hitchhike to Giverny, take a stroll through Monet’s gardens, and lose your rainbow shoes in Andrena Zawinski’s flash-fiction story.

Lois Bassen presents the story of ChiWing, his life’s journey, and the women who shaped his experiences along the way.

“Harriet Cycle” a fiction satire piece by Torey Akers. Meet our new best friend Harriet, an elegant back boob who takes no shit. Find out what makes her tick.

Over the Rainbow studies the reality of transgender lives in America in this funny, poignant, and tragic tale.

Presenting the short, absurd, and hilarious satire piece about a “man-hating cult” with all the well known distorted assumptions about feminism in a capitalist age.

Brown Feathers by Kim Gittens is an African American historical fiction piece.

Kristine Slentz writes about navigating modern love and finding balance.