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  • Heat Index

    Four girls were lying like crime scene bodies in a pink bedroom. A small fan whirred on the desk. “It. Is. So. Hot.” A girl fanned herself with a copy ...

    4 min read
  • Scattered

    Donna Platt pushed herself out of her car. She paused to touch her fluff of white hair and rearrange a turquoise sweater around her plump figure. A screen door screeched ...

    11 min read
  • Vacation

    What’s up with postcards anyway? I mean, who likes getting postcards? They’re just pretty pictures of places where you’re not, and a few meaningless words scribbled on the back, usua

    9 min read
  • To See the World Go Out

    “Listen up, folks! Maybe you shouldn’t fret over those gas prices after all. A man in Wyoming has predicted the apocalypse!” The newscaster’s bared fluorescent teeth could scar

    7 min read
  • Remembrance

    To go back to this place is to go back to a different me. Cutting through the layers of years like tree-rings to reveal something greener and softer. The place ...

    2 min read
  • Salt (edited)

    sunburnt grass prickles under / her early-roughened feet / coated in the coughings / of the dusty potholed road

    3 min read
  • The Day at the River

    Lately the sun had taken to warming away snow and waking up flowers. People slowly began to notice this, as their icy brains thawed, and they shed their woolen coatings ...

    6 min read
  • Birdsong

    Another poem I wrote for school.

    2 min read


Maybe what most people wanted wasn't immortality and fame, but the reassurance that their existence had meant something. No matter how long... or how brief. Maybe being eternal meant becoming a story worth telling.
— Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the Nectar of Immortality