Writing is an act of resistance
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Welcome to Writers Resist the Fall 2025 Issue
With autumn upon us, many have been on the streets peacefully rioting against the man who would be king and keeping the intersections clear, while many others have been waxing wonderful, proclaiming our right to say mean stuff about others and hold board seats in our regional Antifa chapters, treading in the anti-fascist footprints of
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Two Poems by Margaret Bleichman
Poetry, white supremacy, Margaret Bleichman, Indigenous people, indigenous genocide, Boone Hill PLantation, history erasure, Black history, Nipmuc NationA Fresh Take on Historic Integrity Boone Hall Plantation and partnering architectsare proud to share that the Cotton Gin House built in the 1850s for cotton processing will keep its original brick exteriorto maintain its historic integrity but will be completely renovated inside The remodeled Cotton Gin House featuresa new visitor center, gift shop, event
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Refugees
By Leah Mueller for Basel Adra Each morning, he awakensto the same gunfire, the same pain. He sees the enemy’simplacable face: square bodybundled into a gray flak vest,weapon clutched inside an outstretched glove.His home once more reduced to rubble. He moves his possessionsto a different structure,and then to another, eachmore remedial than the last.
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Ancient Alien Tour
By Wendy Vidlak The tour guide wears a freshly starched uniform of a popular blue zhongshan. She quickly assembles the group and starts the presentation from outside the building. “The 10th wonder of the ancient world is a 663-foot tower made of windows and a gold-colored metal. At one time, a giant sign with the
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Photography by M.R. Mandell
Upper photograph: “America” Lower photograph: “Bus Stop” M.R. Mandell is a poet based in Los Angeles. You can find her words in SWWIM, The McNeese Review, HAD, Writers Resist, and others. She is the author of two chapbooks, “Don’t Worry About Me” (Bottlecap Press) and “The Last Girl” (Finishing Line Press). She is a 2024 Pushcart nominee.
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Divertissement
By Candice M. Kelsey I run the country and the world. –Donald Trump Not only able to make guards bendto her will, she also brings Creon slow madnesswith one swoop of her wand. A seductionat the end of Act IV from Charpentier’s opera,triumphant scene from Eurpides’ Medeawhere royal henchmen fall to a woman, powerfuland
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Week One
By Christine Junge A rally the night before the inauguration is “laced with exaggerations and outright falsehoods.”* I come home from a weekend away to find water leaking out the side of our house. Inside, water is pooling beneath the dishwasher. One more thing that’s falling apart. An executive order instructs the government to end
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The Ministry of Truth
By Tara Campbell The Ministry says it’s no joke: todayI broke the law. I was too woke today. They claim I denigrated our great land.Its sacred trust is what I broke today. They feel it would be harmful to allowmy words to reach the common folk today. They say I poked too roughly at our
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The Revolution Will Wear Sneakers
By Sabyasachi Roy they said revolutionwould thunder in cavalry boots—epic, unmissable, majestic. we’ll come instead in well-worn sneakers,laces neon against cracked pavement,soles worn skinny from marchingevery forgotten block. our plans won’t fit in tidy briefs—they’ll be scrawled on café napkins,between kombucha sips and sideways glances,doodles of fists, flowers, flame. we’ll scent the barricades with jasmine,our