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Plain China

National Anthology of the Best Undergraduate Writing

Poetry, Volume X

The Art Journal I Kept Back When I Loved Jesus

Fiction, Volume X

Stokvis

Poetry, Volume X

117 Million

Nonfiction, Volume X

Quarantime

Poetry, Volume X

The Heart Braid

Poetry, Volume X

The Austrian Alps

Poetry, Volume X

SBF, or Why I am No Longer Discussing Sex With Straight People

Poetry, Volume X

The chair

Fiction, Volume X

THE SHIELD MAIDENS OF HAFRSFJORD

Poetry, Volume X

Wall Street et. al.

Poetry, Volume X

just not you

Poetry, Volume X

Patchwork

Fiction, Volume X

Edgar Edgarson

  • Poetry, Volume X

    The Art Journal I Kept Back When I Loved Jesus

    A Very Long Party In Green, Li Anne Liew  Lives in a clear plastic bin below my childhood bed, neighbors with decades-old stuffed teddies and virgin candles gifted to me for…

    0 April 30, 2023
  • Fiction, Volume X

    Stokvis

    Eclipsed, Scott Gathright Early that day, clouds had rolled overhead and started to shower The Bulwark and the surrounding sea in a bout of rain. Kubo had watched the South African…

    1 April 30, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    117 Million

    Monochrome, Emma Lassiter Anyways, I’ve been thinking about going for a swim. I have been researching lakes and bodies of water. I am uncompromising and precise in my analysis of them…

    0 April 30, 2023
  • Nonfiction, Volume X

    Quarantime

    How to Survive a Pandemic, Ashley Webster A guided house tour: spring break, March 13-21, 2020, Prospect Heights, IL. FRENCH WINDOWS In the mornings I sit in an armchair in…

    0 April 30, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    The Heart Braid

    A Slow Decay, Ashley Webster My substitute mom massaged her threading hands As substitute dad typed religiously on his Blackberry She claimed I was finally ready for my soccer game and…

    0 April 30, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    The Austrian Alps

    Whispers, Emily Bryn Author’s note: In CMSCI  449: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, students were assigned to write a natural language processing program that would generate commencement speeches. The result was authentic…

    0 April 30, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    SBF, or Why I am No Longer Discussing Sex With Straight People

    2, Julia Broeker my ex-best friend told me her boyfriend ate her pussy, but it’s okay;, she’s still a virgin.  but oh i forgot, i guess that’s all sex is…

    0 April 30, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    The chair

    Untamed, Natalie Meador My flesh, a fixture In your sanctuary  Positioned strategically  For optimal usage; Your pleasure at its expense. Dents and scratches repeatedly Concealed by pungent lacquers; The handyman covers…

    0 April 30, 2023
  • Fiction, Volume X

    THE SHIELD MAIDENS OF HAFRSFJORD

    Winter Afternoon, Evan McGrew Part Three (continued from The Shield Maidens of Hafrsfjord, Part Two) TW/SA, mentions of suicide Astrid has not stopped thinking about what Eira fears. Whenever Eira has a…

    0 April 30, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    Wall Street et. al.

    The Complexity of Detail, Olivia Offutt Oh America, you bad bitch  I picked the cotton that made you rich -Kendrick Lamar, “For Free? (Interlude)” i. new York was once new…

    0 April 30, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    just not you

    Livelihood, Liza Ashley I didn’t see anything at first  but I felt every bump  and crack of the dirt road, the sudden jolt and sharp turn of the wheel  as…

    0 April 30, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    Patchwork

                                                               …

    0 April 30, 2023
  • Fiction, Volume X

    Edgar Edgarson

    Fever Dream, Emily Bryn Edgar Edgarson wore a Victorian overcoat to school, and when I mentioned this to him, he did not hear me. We walked along the hallway together, his…

    3 April 30, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    Witness

    Lady on the Platform, Adam Foster I can’t watch  without a bile of blood and bones inch up a throat choking on the knee of circumstance. The black of my closed…

    0 February 4, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    Two Words

    Midnight Blossoms, Sydney Walker The emptiness you left is there every day, The pillow sheets are often drenched, My eyes stay shut to keep from the truth, My ears still wait…

    0 February 4, 2023
  • Nonfiction, Volume X

    The Storm Chaser Within

    Lettuce Hug, Christina Guzman She was a flying fist of fury hurling hate, that faint tinge of red flaring beneath the yellow flesh of olive skin. A stark contrast of her…

    0 February 4, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    January

    A Very Long Party in Green, Li Anne Liew I miss  having your head at the  foot of my bed  Sleeping off the pain of loss  my  living room fan  hasn’t…

    0 February 4, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    Lately I’ve Been Running Out of Words for Falling

    Phoenicopteridae Urbana, Jaxon Ke’anoi Bonsack lately, i’ve been meeting my supposed-to-be-stranger on city streets, looking for him on the edges of days and finding him in familiar hallways. but when…

    1 February 4, 2023
  • Nonfiction, Volume X

    Jasper

    A Slow Decay, Ashley Webster I come across her near the water. She is sitting on top of a picnic bench, her slippers and a couple cans of Monaco strewn beside…

    1 February 4, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    Cancer

    Heat Wave, Rachel Ikins can • cer not an elephant — sickness is the swarm of bees in the room / you want to talk about it but they’re stinging you…

    0 February 4, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    Static

    Dorothy, Ciera Land IThe numbness started after her silhouette faded awaywent from trading sly smilesand dancing as fairiesin secret gardensand on dimly lit sidewalksto the longest ache I’ve ever feltI keep…

    0 February 4, 2023
  • Fiction, Volume X

    THE SHIELD MAIDENS OF HAFRSFJORD

    ano nakikita Mo?, harana Part Two (continued from The Shield Maidens of Hafrsfjord, Part One)   TW/SA   After two weeks of not seeing him, Astrid sees him in the…

    0 February 4, 2023
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