CONTENT WARNING: DEPICTIONS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT I remember you, my first and only masseuse, in your 30s or 40s, maybe children or a wife at home. Dark brown almost black hair shaved on the sides, letting it grow in the middle. I remember a sort of scowl that left a mark on your forehead, deep [...]
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Steinbrenner High School's super cool literary magazine.
My Body by Anonymous
CONTENT WARNING: DEPICTIONS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT he's prying on her innocenceundressing her as she walksa predator catching its preyplaying each string of her hearthearing the harmony of her laugh, he knows his goal a frigid desk meets the pleated skirt of polyestergripping her flesh leaving an imprint of deceitwriting on her like an essayeach body [...]
Red Nike’s by Anonymous
CONTENT WARNING: DEPICTIONS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT We were sitting in English, working on a book report. A few students found a box full of rubber bands and started to fling them at me. I asked them to stop. They did not. Suddenly there was a hand on my head and the words “I’ll protect you” [...]
Empathetic by Dylon Martin
Some part of me craves petulant empathy,which is to say being looked down upon is at least being seen at all. It’s too late for me;I’ve caged my pride and let my insecurity roam free,taking the form of self deprecating remarksripping and clawing their way from my mouth. There is no amount of reassurance that [...]
Tea Time by Sarah Boyd
Ghost Screen by Sarah Boyd
Identity Crisis by Nathan Pray
The word “half’ isn't something you would think would cause an issue, since there are many things related to the word half. Yet for me, the word half has caused me pain for 18 years creating an identity crisis. We all know classic battles like red vs blue, pancake vs waffles or dark vs light. [...]
Beauty by Lance Elliott
Your ancestors did not fight there way here for you to be ashamed of their faceOf their eyesOf their lipsOf their hairOf their skinYour ancestors did not die for you to wish you looked like white peopleFor you to be 9 years old and hate your thin eyesTo wish your nose was less broadAnd you [...]
If White People Didn’t Exist by Char Roschell
I saw this TikTok asking me what I'd do if white people didn't existAnd the truth is that like almost every equation there's infinite solutionsDon't get me wrong I love the white people around me now, but most of the ones I've met haven't treated me with respect, with dignity, because of the color of [...]
Poetry Collection by Jessie Nwokoye
He was new, different, maybe even intriguing.She was open, exposed, scared but hopeful.He was fun, and easygoing. He was sweet and kind.She was naïve, but it was okay because it felt right.He felt right, good, he felt warm, he felt right,until he didn’t.One excuse, two excuses, three excuses, four.How many more until she was out [...]
