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Category: Prose

Subway Car Vignettes

Posted on September 14, 2016October 1, 2022 by Nicole Chavez

by Nicole Chávez (Staff Writer) STOP: WAKEFIELD – 241ST STREET MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME: $38,261 On a dull, fall afternoon at the northern edge of the Bronx, a subway car screeches to a stop at an empty platform. I sigh in content at the familiar scene. The subway stop is a mere ten-minute walk away from…

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For the Students

Posted on April 28, 2016October 1, 2022 by Contributing Writers

by Alex Zhang This is for the senior who will not have a college named after her: who feels the ghosts of slaveowner’s past yanking a rose stem out of her throat, who slit her tongue and watched the blood spill in October — how it flowed into the palms of a thousand newspapers, how…

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Living the Impossible

Posted on April 14, 2016October 1, 2022 by Contributing Writers

by Elizabeth Spenst  “Now since it is 6:10 in Brazil, most of my childhood friends would be here,” Daniel Lucas Alves da Silva tells me as we stare at a wall facing a street lined with trees on Google Maps Street View. People are getting off work and grabbing a coke to drink at the…

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First Kiss

Posted on March 4, 2016October 1, 2022 by Contributing Writers

by Agnes Enkhtamir We linked eyes across a crowd of gyrating teens and music so loud your bones vibrated. I didn’t want to meet the love of my life at a mediocre house party in a suburb of Las Vegas, but his eyes made the dusty, dreamy scene stumble into focus. It was like a fairytale….

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Saying No

Posted on November 20, 2015October 1, 2022 by Contributing Writers

cw: sexual assault the writer of this poem wishes to remain anonymous.   I swallowed my fear as he removed my shirt, Breathe in, Stay in the moment, I kept reminding myself that I was there, in my room, I was in control, It’s not the same, you chose this, no one is forcing you to…

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