Writing is an act of resistance
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An Implausibility of Wildebeests
COVID-19 pandemic, distance learning, online learning, physical distancing, hybrid learning, remote learning, Fiction, terms of venery, social distancing, Elizabeth EdelglassBy Elizabeth Edelglass “A pride of lions. A pod of whales. A wisdom of wombats.” Henry is rattling off something he learned from the zoo—not the zoo zoo, the online zoo, somewhere, Seattle? Omaha?—Isabel forgot which one today. If it’s Tuesday, there are pandas; if it’s Thursday, dolphins. Pandas are bears, Henry likes to…
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Encomium for the First Truly Epic Poem
By M. J. Lewis This is the best poem you have ever read. Everybody is saying it. Everyone. Other poems have tried to be as wonderful, tried to be honored with the best aesthetics, struggled to be as tremendous as this and to get away with things like that—believe me— but they don’t know…
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in memory of the coptic bus martyrs
who were murdered on their way to st. samuel the confessor monastery may 26, 2017 By Sister Lou Ella Hickman the wheels of the buses that went round and round came to a stop who was the first one to descend stepping into the hot sand then signed the most ancient of signs…
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Coming Home
By Nathan Porceng Another thing romanticized by media and movies, no banners, no kisses, no parades, and frankly I’m thankful for that. What I’m NOT thankful for is this 12 hour overnight layover in the barren Oakland airport. Air Force pains to foot the bill to fly its “brothers” home, so we go civilian.…
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I Turn 39 During the Pandemic and My Husband Asks Me to Buy a Gun
By Brianna Pike while we sit in our kitchen, our son asleep upstairs. Earlier, I sat on our back deck, the sunlight beating bold over the lawn as my son streaked across the newly green grass, falling over & over into its softness. It is my birthday & I did not expect this gift of…
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Responsibility
By James Scruton If they don’t treat me right, then I don’t call. Maybe Pence or someone else will do it. I don’t take responsibility at all. These governors want me to take the fall. But I show them who’s boss, tweet after tweet. If they won’t treat me right, I just won’t call.…
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Endings are beginnings
Hi, folks, K-B and Sara launched Writers Resist with the intention of shutting it down once Trump was out of office. Thankfully, he’s departing sooner rather than four years later, so our ritual killing is nigh. We birthed this baby on 01 December 2016, twenty-two days after Trump was elected, with Rae Rose as our poetry editor. You…
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Nobody Likes Spock
By Sarah Colón Spock scrolls through his Facebook feed in the early hours of the morning. He hasn’t been sleeping well, and the blue light from his phone shining upward reveals dark circles around his eyes. Today, someone is posting a long description of the origins of the virus. “PROOF that it was created…
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Post-Election Meltdown
By Marcella Remund I am 60 years old. In my lifetime, my mother’s lifetime, and all the lifetimes that came before, no woman has been president. Don’t tell me to get over it I have TRAINED blonde footballers for jobs I couldn’t get without a penis, jobs that paid ten times my single-mom salary.…