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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

  • Nonfiction, Volume IX

    Reminiscing in the Land of Maple Syrup

    An Ode to Breakfast, Emma Lassiter   I was scared, that day. The last time I had been scared in that house was when I was seven, and my big sister…

    0 August 31, 2022
  • Poetry, Volume IX

    Refrigerator Door

    Dancer, Rose Horell and I can’t stop thinking  about how I’ve gotten so used to doing everything alone. so when I reached into the fridge for a dozen eggs for the…

    0 August 31, 2022
  • Nonfiction, Volume IX

    The Planets Move Without My Consent

    Poppies and WD-40, Chloe Moulin Morning consists of showering the body, donning the clothing, assembling the self. I wrestle into a tee shirt, and oftentimes a collared shirt atop it, a…

    0 August 31, 2022
  • Fiction, Volume IX

    The Churchyard Yew

    Catacombes de Paris, Elle Griffiths Granny always told me that the yew is the tree of death, and that I should never go under it. In college I learned that…

    0 August 31, 2022
  • Poetry, Volume IX

    ABC Haibun

    Gas Station, Oscar Zenteno I was born in the room where my mother ate her first hamburger, the room where my father sat at her bedside, licking every crumb off …

    0 August 31, 2022
  • Fiction, Volume IX

    The Day It Happened

    This Ain’t Belle’s Rose, Adriana Barker There came a winter that was not a winter, but the winter—the winter for which all the other winters had been waiting. The temperatures dropped…

    2 August 31, 2022
  • Poetry, Volume IX

    Communion

    Molten Medium, Chloe Moulin He kisses his hand through my stomach I am a butterfly display, mounted under glass  —pinned with a needle—  pleasure with an exit wound. My stomach…

    0 August 31, 2022
  • Nonfiction, Volume IX

    Entropy & the Irrefutable Nonsense of Being

    Immersed, Abigail Nasari “The people or countries that seem to have the highest happiness index seem to embrace the chaos of being human, meaning they don’t pretend that life is…

    0 August 31, 2022
  • Poetry, Volume IX

    The Nature of Time

    The Complexity of Detail, Olivia Offutt It rises And falls Like breath Between whispers It twists Turns upon itself forever  always will it swallow itself moment gorging on moment A…

    0 August 31, 2022
  • Poetry, Volume IX

    complex / complexion / complexity

    Opulent, Taharah Islam embodied stories pass me on the sidewalk & my head is a balloon / floating above / but I still cannot see through skulls to the thoughts &…

    0 August 31, 2022
  • Nonfiction, Volume IX

    Love Language

    Precious, Rose Horell   No one stays in Calcutta, India forever. Scan the headlines of the nearest copy of Calcutta Times or The Telegraph and you’ll almost certainly find an op-ed…

    0 August 31, 2022
  • Fiction, Volume IX

    Marrow

    Pink Creek, Louise Rossiter Laurel’s father was fired from his job at the end of August, a sure way to sour the remains of an already over-ripe summer. Its heat…

    0 August 31, 2022
  • Poetry, Volume IX

    The Pufferfish Limerick

    Demonology, Jack Hoye There once was a man from Nantucket  Who ate a pufferfish straight from a bucket. He said with a grin As he wiped off his chin, “The tetrodotoxin…

    0 August 31, 2022
  • Poetry, Volume IX

    Wild, Rough Blue

    Haku, Anna Hiltner My sister and I grew up between golden hills that glared against the rough blue sky of Tahoe country. Mom and Dad sat us down in a…

    0 August 31, 2022
  • Nonfiction, Volume IX

    Elise

    Rose-Covered Glasses, Margaret Wright   I know her like she’s mine. Little sister, little child, little rhyme. We float in the gray-between; one of my hands holds her as a sister…

    0 August 31, 2022
  • Poetry, Volume IX

    Raspberry Vapor

    Fever Dream, Emily Lawson I met a woman early August,across her skin I felt tearful years.It was written on her stomach and thighs.  A burning wish fired from her own tongue: …

    2 March 7, 2022
  • Poetry, Volume IX

    Corona and Therapy

    Dusk in the City of Angels, AJ Favorito i step into a massage chair designated for patients one man is distant enough we stare into each other   as plastic balls…

    2 March 7, 2022
  • Nonfiction, Volume IX

    Sisters

    Precious, Rose Horell TW: Child Abuse I. “Do you think I’d look good as a blonde?” I ask my sister Cassandria as we sit in parallel spa chairs at Grace’s Nail…

    2 March 7, 2022
  • Poetry, Volume IX

    while a professor pores over the enlightenment

    Cotton Candy Woman, Kiara Florez funny, isn’t it that Eve bit into knowledge and all of my citations slither their way back to sons of Adam funny, isn’t it that…

    2 March 7, 2022
  • Fiction, Volume IX

    I’ll Keep Checking

      The Unexpected, by Anastassiya Selezneva     Data Transition 40233-22  Unpacking…  World Jumper Yaniess,  It has been over 30 local solar days since your last check in. I have not…

    2 March 7, 2022
  • Poetry, Volume IX

    The First Philosopher

    Dorothy, Ciera Land novel is new, but The Novel is not. Poesis. Poesie? Poetry!  Glass shatters, I escape God. Forget the Book, I want to create, to produce something new–…

    2 March 7, 2022
  • Fiction, Volume IX

    The Lady of the Butterflies

    Flutter, Savanah Tebeau-Sherry The slow heat of summer was just beginning to roll in when the Lady arrived in Kittery. Our town was small so everyone, especially us kids, noticed when…

    2 March 7, 2022
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