Posts in non-fiction
12 Houses

By Yolanda Bonnell

There was always a sense of floating. Or running. Never touching the ground.
My personality was shaped by constantly having to adapt to new surroundings as I grew. I learned social skills to survive. Not fitting in was social death.

So youthfully dramatic.

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Rawr

By Juan Velasquez

Like a newborn, it took me a few seconds to adjust to the light. Through my cloudy vision, I could make out the word “rawr”… sent by… Warren?

I was hiding from the party.

“What?” I said out loud. I felt a pang of pride ripple through my chest. I was already speaking to myself in English, after only a couple of months in Canada.

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The Red Couch

By K. Zen’obia

The red couch looked like something that burst out of a tarnished lamp, or a genie's psyche, like a wavering third eye, when the number 1970 bubbles up on a Ouija. Not like a red Ikea in a dorm room, where two college girls, one Black, one white, are painting walls, and trying to outdance each other, freestyling, during a Calabria voice over commercial.

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