by Isabelle Rubio | May 19, 2025 | Creative Prose, Creative Prose 2021
Growing Pains Mom and Dad knocked briefly and rushed into my room. Half-asleep, I dug one foot, then the other, into the carpet. It was a bit too early to wake up for school, so I could only wonder why they had dragged me out of bed, or why they were so excited. It...
by Chiseche Mibenge | May 19, 2025 | Creative Prose, Creative Prose 2021
Who is Zooming Who? Rituals of Shame in the White Academic Institution An elite white academic institution in California has convened a virtual workshop on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) for a cohort of humanities faculty. The DEI workshop is facilitated by a...
by Claire Dee | May 19, 2025 | Creative Prose, Creative Prose 2021
You Stinker There were plenty of kids we made fun of in high school — the girl with the face tattoo; the foreign exchange student from Wales; Male Leslie — but Anna was different. Nothing ever fazed her. In fact, it seemed like she enjoyed when people pulled on her...
by Nicole Harkin | May 19, 2025 | Creative Prose, Creative Prose 2021
Excerpt of HOW I PLAYED MY CARDS The front yard of the house we bought in Lebanon, Illinois, needed a lot of work. The driveway wasn’t quite level. Every weekend for a month, Ed dug into the earth, replacing freshly turned over soil with gravel. He planted a maple...
by Noelle Marie Falcis | May 19, 2025 | Creative Prose, Creative Prose 2021
A Personal Transcript from the Samuel Oschin Planetarium Showing: OCEANS OF GRAVITY content warning: childhood sexual abuse Space is a concept that most can never understand; Autumn and I, we know it well. We tussled with it floating upon the endless sea, taken by...
by Alec Sandoval | May 19, 2025 | Creative Prose, Creative Prose 2021
The Unseen Nature of Learning It’s always difficult to see them when I log on to teach class. Crammed into a small room with one laptop, two of the five students are off-screen. Because I am unable to see all of them, I say each student’s name aloud to ensure they are...
