By Margo LaPierre
When I say Orion watches over me, I mean it was the name I’d chosen for the baby. I mean Orion my unborn, whose fate was sealed when my bestie and a male stripper and I were kidnapped from Pink Pony Atlanta’s parking lot.
Read MoreAs someone learning to live with chronic and invisible disabilities myself, it has been an important goal of mine to further broaden carte blanche’s platform to include celebrating stories and artwork created by individuals who live with disabilities, however they may identify or define disability.
By Margo LaPierre
When I say Orion watches over me, I mean it was the name I’d chosen for the baby. I mean Orion my unborn, whose fate was sealed when my bestie and a male stripper and I were kidnapped from Pink Pony Atlanta’s parking lot.
Read MoreBy M-X Marin
Through the nascent storm, walk away from the river. It’s my first winter near my grandfather’s grave, on occupied territory first named Gespe’gewa’gi, seventh district of Mi’gma’gi, the ancestral and unceeded territory of the Mi’gmaq, later christened Sainte-Anne-Des-Monts by my ancestors. Seven-thousand inhabitants nestled along the south bank of the St-Lawrence 49° North.
Read MoreBy Vrnq Synnott
It's a familiar outline, life mouthing I want more.
She sat on the sofa, her hands on her knees—but for whom. There were days such as this one where she felt like someone had zoomed in on her. This impression was not new. As if the landscape disappeared and she now filled the entire frame.
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