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Welcome to Writers Resist, the December 2023 Issue
It's been a year that too often has left many of us without words—thankfully, not those who've made this issue possible. Their voices offer clarity, [...]
Slowcookery
By Amy L. Bernstein “Because when it comes to truly explaining racial injustice in this country, the table should never be set quickly” – [...]
The Whale
By Kerry Loughman never budged becalmed she was bleached by sun & beached on relentless rise of blue water liquid leeched from her [...]
Two Poems by Linda Parsons
How a Woman Becomes Herself When the neighbor’s weed tree drapes over the power lines and shades her garden, she contemplates going out by moonlight [...]
Disappearing Into the Flesh Market VII
By Mary Stebbins Taitt Artist's statement: This painting, part of a series, is a resistance statement against the misuse of girls, boys, women, and others by [...]
Wildness Unafraid
By Tim Murphy What if trees could talk? No. Of course they do. What if we could hear them speak just beneath our feet? What [...]
Suburban Median
By Myna Chang We see the body on the way to drop our kids off at school. It’s in the median at the Parkway [...]
Wrong Rainbow
By L. Acadia Describing our droomhuis for Dutch class, my worksheet filled with my dream house’s garden: Hollyhocks, hydrangea higher than I, wrought iron [...]
Two Poems by Deborah Hochberg
Congregation of Ibis “A barrage of storms has resurrected what was once the largest body of fresh water west of the Mississippi River, setting [...]
what happened before the good sex
By Bryana Joy for God’s sake no more games she said setting the last set of lace panties in the trash i am befuddled [...]
that name
By William Palmer tide in— imagine waves scraping away that name and the lies upon lies that feed off it, dissolving them in foam [...]
Point Blank
An Illustrated Poem by Jane Muschenetz MIT grad and former Bain Management Consultant, Jane Muschenetz arrived in the United States as a child refugee from [...]
What About the Men?
By Phyllis Wax A new drug for menopause is being hailed as a godsend for a condition many women endure in silence. Thing is, [...]
The Last Revolution
By Lorraine Schein The Last Revolution was yesterday. It was so successful, that all future revolutions were cancelled forever. A lesbian and her lover [...]