Posts by Thora Dahlke
we remember what it's like to be in love: 3 poems
Tyler Dempsey
i turned out alright
Connecticut
Nora Goodbody
The drive to Connecticut was easy. There were hardly any other cars on the road. It was foggy and grey and the highway seemed to stretch out endlessly in front of me. The governor had warned against
WHAT'S SO HORRIBLE
Amy DeBellis
“What’s so horrible about being able to take all the emotions you don’t want to feel and just vomit them out of you, and then you’re clean, you’re done with them, you’re numbed out and high?”
“What’s so horrible about being able to get high on your own emptiness, on your strength and your willpower, on your superiority, on how you’re able to get by on so little, you may as well be made of air?”
Last Friday Night
Odelia Wu
Feels like the hour before closing at Chuck-E-Cheese.
The World is Ending and So Are We: 5 poems
Ingrid M. Calderón-Collins
Love. That’s all I want. That’s all we want. These people. These dogs.
Ella Baxter on Woo Woo
Anna Dorn
What author’s (dead or alive) persona is aspirational?
I have never found any authors to be aspirational.
The Invisible Official
Tyson Duffy
The bullies, they made him feel young, alive. He would never admit this to anyone, but he was fairly sure the other teachers, after a glass of wine or three, would concur.
Submarines Don't Swim: A Conversation with Mathematician Kevin Buzzard
Audrey Zheng
Asking if a computer can do art or science is like asking if a submarine can swim...
The Rose of No Man’s Land
Benjamin Bond West
“...symbols of the divine show up in our world initially at the trash stratum. Or so I told myself.” – VALIS
“There’s a rose that grows on no man’s land, and it’s wonderful to see” – The Rose of No
notes from a recovering anhedonic
Rosalind Margulies
i keep love around like a shirt i hope i’ll fit into again someday
Midwest Suffering And Brainrot: A Review Of John Doe's 'Autumn In The Pain House'
Danielle Chelosky
Is John Doe a writer, or just a content machine?
Paper Doll
Hailey Danielle
I ignored it when he admitted he had cheated on all of his girlfriends, and I ignored it when he became quickly angry over something small. I ignored the red flags
LIVING ROOM CRAFT TALKS & DISCOVERY: A CONVERSATION WITH ELLEN BASS
Audrey Zheng
I am always talking about the quality of paying attention and the quality of being willing to go into the unknown, being willing to not know.
Three poems on our precious context
The Neighbourhood Coward
Destroy something for my sake.
Schadenfreude
Andrew Worthington
Okay, you know how I like to go to the bathroom. We’ve talked about it at sessions over and over again.