The Moon

By Lilian St. Clair-Foster, TIWP Student I sit. My legs dangling over the branch I’m perched on as I wait,wait for the clock to strike time. I’ve always loved sunsets, the hot golden yellow of the sun melting away to seafoam blues and royal purples, looking like paint draped down a canvas.Like heaven at earth’s […]

My Wife

By Lilian St. Clair-Foster, TIWP Student I walk.My high heeled boots black in color, perfectly describing my current mood as I sway with each step towards the graveyard. My long tan trench coat is dirty and rough against my skin as I cough, my lungs ringing like a sponge as they try to reject the […]

Please, Don’t

By Lilian St. Clair-Foster, TIWP Student I see the phrase “Please, don’t be in love with someone else” a lot.And it’s never resonated with me,But yet I still sing it in each song I find it in,each poem that holds it,and think about it in most childhood memories with such vigor you would have thought […]

Parade

By Lilian St. Clair-Foster, TIWP Student Why am I here?No, really, why?I have nothing to gain from this except pain.And yet, I’m always back. Back here.Is it really that amusing?To watch me fall apart?Does it really entertain you that much?To watch me stutter and fall, trying desperately to fit together two pieces of a puzzle […]

A Teen’s Take on Managing the Patriarchy

By Sarah Hawkins, TIWP StudentIt is a hard realization to come to growing up as a female and slowly learning you exist for men, but that’s not true—at least it shouldn’t be. However, as I look at past events of not only my life, but also many other female’s lives, there seems to be that […]

The Snake

By Lilian St.Clair-Foster, TIWP Student A sleek body glides through the clear water of the river, its fur the color of fermented coffee beans and freshly potted soil. A twig snaps to the left of the water, The force of a heavy weight the cause of its distortion as the ferret-like creature dives under the […]

An Unlikely Tale

By Annabelle Kennedy, TIWP Student  Everything is not as it seems, in the end. The mask is torn off, the true nature is revealed, and the curtains close. The hero is arrogant and half crazy with a want for revenge. The hero is misguided. The hero is tempted by the dark. The hero is dead. […]

Radical Self-Acceptance

By Ava Moga, TIWP Student It’s hard to know who I truly am with everyone else’s lives swarming around me,constantly comparing myself to my friends, family, even the random people who I pass in the hallway. It’s hard not to compare,even knowing that at the end of the day we want different things. It’s hard […]

Chapter Titles in Your Average Sci-Fi Novel

By Sol Dente, TIWP Student Chapter 1: Shit Goes Down  Chapter 2: You Can’t Prove Anything Chapter 3: Turns Out They Can Prove Something  Chapter 4: My Father is a Dick (But What Else is New?) Chapter 5: Emi is Once Again the Only Sane Person in This Household Chapter 6: stOP BeInG sO oVeRdRaMaTIC […]

Starving

By Audrey Lambert, TIWP Alumni bite me down to the bonei’m starvedcanine’s shark-sharptear into raw fleshi need my mouth to feel fulli need my stomach to feel fulli need to feel full. fill me upextinguish this empty furymake it stop fill me upi need to feel full. there’s a bear in my stomachshe paces in her […]