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As our first contribution to The Nightingale’s monthly prompts, this piece is a wise retelling of “The Girl With the Wooden Helmet,” originally of Japanese

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It’s an empowering decision to be open about an experience of sexual violence for the first time. Ann Casapini contributes to the narrative of so

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In this piece, Taylor Finn explores memory and forgetting, forgiveness and acceptance. How can the forgiveness once directed towards the partner now be redirected towards

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Sometimes, simply watching a movie can be interrupted by sudden confrontations with a past trauma. Katie takes her readers through one of these tough, quiet

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Agnieszka Krajewska is a poet, essayist, and combat epistemologist. She received an MA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University in 2004, and was

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T.m. Lawson is a poet and a writer living in California. They are currently attending UCSD, working on their Creative Writing M.F.A. They’ve been published