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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

  • 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…

    1 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…

    1 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
  • 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
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