Be the Phoenix

At times it may seem like the world’s getting worse We’re watching our planet ride off in a Hearse Anathemas run rampant through the airwaves Thorny spells ensorcell and add to the graves Forests are burning and venom is spewing The Klan celebrates civil rights’ undoing We feel the fists of Hate and the plague […]

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Schools of Thought: Part One

Schools of Thought: Part One by Ophia Content Warning: violence, sex, traumatic brain injury            A strange animal skin hangs from the end of the branch acting as curtain rod over the window, displayed alongside a sheer white cloth. A washboard leans in the corner, with more obvious instruments tucked into […]

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Discussions of God, Part 2

Here is another piece of the puzzle for me, inspired by a conversation with my cousin: Recently, it’s been revealed to me through my personal connection with the universe that my concept of reincarnation was incomplete. I already felt that I am born each time as a different life. But what I didn’t put together […]

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She Waits for All of Us

She lives underground, of course, but feels the world above her through her hair that grows out as trees and flowers. Her eyes the oceans and rivers, where she watches you approach. You stumble down earthen paths, believing yourself to be lost. She waits. You trip and fall down ravines, and she catches you without […]

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Lessons from Behind the Wheel

     Due to a head injury when I was fifteen, I wasn’t allowed to drive in high school. So at eighteen, I was finally able to sign up for behind-the-wheel classes. I had gotten Dale as my driving instrustor. I’d heard stories about him buying everyone Slurpees at 7-11 and teaching you to drive […]

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Psychotropic Writer’s Block

Just can’t get this haze to leave; memories of my other mind make me grieve. The quakes won’t start, my seeds won’t grow; got stuck right here where the false winds blow. These lies in my veins, some thought they would help, but my imagination sends out no yelp, no explosions of passion, no well-crafted […]

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