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Plain China

National Anthology of the Best Undergraduate Writing

Poetry, Volume X

Witness

Poetry, Volume X

Two Words

Nonfiction, Volume X

The Storm Chaser Within

Poetry, Volume X

January

Poetry, Volume X

Lately I’ve Been Running Out of Words for Falling

Nonfiction, Volume X

Jasper

Poetry, Volume X

Cancer

Poetry, Volume X

Static

Fiction, Volume X

THE SHIELD MAIDENS OF HAFRSFJORD

Nonfiction, Volume X

How to Host a Funeral

Poetry, Volume X

The Land We Lived On

Fiction, Volume X

Red’s Maintenance

Nonfiction, Volume X

I Go Back to the House on Grandon

  • 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…

    0 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…

    0 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 great…

    0 February 4, 2023
  • Nonfiction, Volume X

    How to Host a Funeral

      Meditation on Postmodernism, Jaxon Ke’anoi Bonsack Most importantly: food. Good food. Some families think those bullshit little hors d’oeuvres will cut it, but they won’t. You really think Lisa…

    0 February 4, 2023
  • Poetry, Volume X

    The Land We Lived On

    My Happy Place, Makeda Wells We lived on a patch of infertile land,                           a place where they tried to…

    0 February 4, 2023
  • Fiction, Volume X

    Red’s Maintenance

    After the Impact, Sarena Pollock We regret to inform you that starting on 10/02/4519, the color red will be undergoing maintenance, and will be temporarily unavailable. We apologize for any…

    0 February 4, 2023
  • Nonfiction, Volume X

    I Go Back to the House on Grandon

    The Japanese House, Effie Jia (Imitation of Vincent Scarpa’s “I Go Back to Berryman’s”) All the Chevys were from different eras—a candy-apple ‘63 Impala, a wine red ‘85 Monte Carlo,…

    1 February 4, 2023
  • Fiction, Volume X

    You’re Not From Around Here

    Rust Rorschach, Timothy Embertson “You are excused. If you don’t know certain things, I know you are not from around here,” Dementria Martinez told the man politely.  She could tell…

    0 October 20, 2022
  • Nonfiction, Volume X

    i long for the me i was before i met you

    Skin Mask Replica, Hunter Louis i am drinking earl grey tea even though it is slightly bitter because i miss my mother and she always drank it at home and my…

    0 October 20, 2022
  • Poetry, Volume X

    Dream Girl

    Poppies and WD-40, Chloe Moulin Mania tastes like a Monster Smells like cigarette butts Bleach gasoline And gripping the clutch Infidelity shows up too Grows in Tindr swipes right Purging sweating…

    0 October 20, 2022
  • Poetry, Volume X

    Daddy Issues

    Whispers, Emily Bryn Sylvia Plath would call me a spic. In the light  my eyebrows almost pass for a Spaniard’s. In the darkness,  Pablo Neruda would call me a gringa. What…

    0 October 20, 2022
  • Poetry, Volume X

    Search History

    Pink Creek, Louise Rossiter s stages of sleep stages of grief symptoms narcissism symptoms hypochondria symptoms cancer stomach ache small tits states where you can buy fireworks states where you…

    2 October 20, 2022
  • Fiction, Volume X

    A Shadowy Figure

    Demonology, Jack Hoye I lay down on my bed and pull a photo out from under my pillow. A family photo – the last one too. I close my eyes and…

    0 October 20, 2022
  • Fiction, Volume X

    The Shield Maidens of Hafrsfjord

    Bright Nights City Lights, Jackie Phuong Ta Part One TW/SA The Northmen are all standing and sitting together in the hall of the great Jarl Thigurd Sigurdsson to await his announcement…

    0 October 20, 2022
  • Poetry, Volume IX

    Precarious Weather

    Rust Rorschach, Timothy Embertson The day I call the day my hair fell out, no hair actually fell out. Several bouquets simply gave   with a small tug, and slipped…

    0 August 31, 2022
  • Fiction, Volume IX

    Fox Studies

    “junior year prom, mom had to unzip my dress because i was having a panic attack and couldn’t breathe”, Evelyn Staats On the day that Miles turns into a fox, I…

    0 August 31, 2022
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