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Category: Rage

March 18, 2018
2016

2016

by Lina Khodor  Azzah Sultan He’s President. The leader of the “free” world. But it was 2016 This shouldn’t be happening Not in 2016, they say. The left is shocked. I call Mama after the Florida votes are in. But it’s 2016. This shouldn’t be happening Not in 2016, I say again. She tells me …

March 18, 2018
Memories with Gaslighting

Memories with Gaslighting

by Brigid Flanagan Right in my face, a great breathing threat to my personal space: my father. He’s the antithesis of fatherly love. With his angry face, scrunched up nose, and teeth flashing, he blasts word after word. I stand like a deer in headlights, thinking, “Oh god he’s gonna hit me. Any second now. …

March 18, 2018
Deer In Headlights

Deer In Headlights

by Arlinda Fasliu It’s never your fault. It’s not. Even when he says “I think we didn’t work out because you’re too happy” Maybe it was the way that he called you baby Maybe it was the twist of his wrist when you slid his hand down your body Maybe when you said no And …

March 18, 2018
(Un)Changing Room

(Un)Changing Room

by Jim Baker I shoulder open the door of Rosemont Middle School’s boys’ locker room for the first time in seventeen years. It swings inward with an oxidizing metal-on-metal screech. By now someone has probably replaced the ancient hinges that used to make that noise, but that sound is indelibly etched in my memory. I …

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