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What Happens Later – Sometimes, Much Later by Shawn Aveningo Sanders

May 24, 2018 | All Authors, All Formats, Issue 6, Day in the Life of a Survivor, Poetry, Shawn Aveningo Sanders

  Shawn Aveningo Sanders is a globally published, award-winning poet who can’t stand the taste of coconut, eats pistachios daily and loves shoes … especially red ones! (redshoepoet.com) Shawn’s work has appeared in over 100 literary journals and anthologies....

The Men Who Didn’t Rape Me by AK Krajewska

May 24, 2018 | AK Krajewska, All Authors, All Formats, Issue 6, Day in the Life of a Survivor, Poetry, Uncategorized

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 ordained as an Adept in the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn in 2009. Her poems have appeared in two...

Like Every Good Boy I Look Forward to Meeting My (the) Rapist by Akpa Arinzechukwu

May 24, 2018 | Akpa Arinzechukwu, All Authors, Issue 6, Day in the Life of a Survivor

& suddenly yesterday I stopped being twenty. I am tired of being found alive.   It was night a minute ago. I keep losing my head —   Surprised it is always found in the refrigerator: Citalopram-stench, blueprints of L.   Last night I was so old I...

When He Asks Your For A Character Reference by Mary Panke

May 24, 2018 | All Authors, Issue 6, Day in the Life of a Survivor, Mary Panke

the nice guy who comes into your home to clean your windows the friendly doctor who brings mushrooms from the woods the puffed priest who eats your mother’s coffee cake drinks your father’s wine hears your confession the lonely softball coach who shows up at your...

untouched by Bina Perino

May 24, 2018 | All Authors, Bina Perino, Issue 6, Day in the Life of a Survivor

i will cleanse my body of unwanted fingerprints in a scalding shower. skin will split, melt, peel and water will run with the red, red, red of my blood until i am tissue and bone. and a blanket of flesh will hold me until i awake and become somebody you never touched....

Cover My Eyes, Cover Your Eyes With Dirt by Cris Iacoponi

May 24, 2018 | All Authors, Cris Iacoponi, Issue 6, Day in the Life of a Survivor

  Cris is a survivor of early and long term sexual abuse. It’s a relief for Cris to be able to write this so plainly to a literary/art magazine. Cris grew up in Texas, moved to New York, and has settled down in Philadelphia. Cris is queer, a poet, can...
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