Stories
Short stories and poems.
2023
- Island by Langston Hughes
- A Gift to Bring You by Rumi
- Midnight by Sappho
- The World's A Minefield by Iain Crichton Smith
- The Bridge by Kate Rushin
- Seeds Planted in Concrete by Bianca Sparacino
- My Mother Upon Hearing News of Her Mother's Death by Cathy Linh Chei
- Climate by Whitney Hanson
- Insomnia by Keaton Henson
- Untitled by Sappho
- Exit, Stage Left by Robert L. Penick
- Failed Essay on Repressed Sexuality by Patrycja Humienik
- Do not ask your children to strive by William MartinI especially love this poem because it took me a long time to realize that being average is ok.
- Fatigue by D. H. Lawrence
2022
- To the Man Standing on the Corner Holding the Sign That Said "God Hates Gays" by Rudy Francisco
- Adrenaline Rush by Rudy Francisco
- Skin II by Rudy Francisco
- Haunted by Rudy Francisco
- When People Ask How I'm Doing by Rudy Francisco
- Ouch by Rudy Francisco8.4/10. A beautiful symbolization of the fear of aging and losing talents over time. I experienced these fears myself.
- I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon by Stephen Crane
- I'm Going Back To Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense by Danez Smith8.2/10.
- How to Kill a Living Thing by Eibhlin Nic Eochaidh
- I want a dyke for president by Mykki Blanco
- I Confess by Alison Luterman
- Weep for Youth's Passing by T. F. Higham
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath7.5/10.
- Even if I now saw you by Izumi Shikibu8.0/10.
2021
- Fifty Years Apart by unknown
- I Wish I Wrote The Way I Thought by Benedict Smith
- Motto by Bertolt Brecht
- The Hardest Thing I'll Ever Do by Leal Ashae Sargent
- Not Even This by Ocean Vuong7.9/10. I love his style of writing. It has such a strong voice behind it.
- The Girl Who Was Afraid To Be by Nikita Gill
- If I Have to Die by Yu Xinqiao
- Hashtag Stopasianhate by Sherry Cola
- Alone by Maya Angelou
2020
- My Creative Writing Professor Told Me To Stop Writing About Love by Caitlyn Siehl
- I Loved You by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
- What Do You Do With the Mad That You Feel? by Fred M. Rogers
- A Sad Child by Margaret Atwood
- How I Became a Lesbian by Becky Birtha
- The Men That Don't Fit In by Robert W. Service
- The Morning After I Killed Myself by Meggie Royer
- When a Good Man Goes to War by Steven Moffat
- Blue Skies by Michizō Tachihara
- They'll Say She Must Be From Another Country by Imtiaz Dharker
- Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
- A Love Song by Gustaf Fröding
- The Human Abstract by William Blake
- Not a Silverfish by Bao Phi8.8/10.
- Detail of the Woods by Richard Siken
- We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar
2017
- If Only We Had Taller Been by Ray Bradbury8.6/10. I interpret it as a metaphor for racism.