“‘They needed to hear more about being with a woman. Thank you for sharing that,’ my friend, and the only other woman at the table, whispered to me.”
Read More“When I’d pictured you (yes, I pictured you / and me with you), it was dead-on: / you wear the expected eyes of exhaustion,”
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Read More“Raised by a mother who believed imagination was sinful, Mina was constantly punished and derided for her creative spirit…. And yet, her poetry breathes with transformative vitality. She dares to imagine a world where women exist wholly as themselves, their value disconnected from the preferences of men.”
Read More“The fire crept along the sides of her sleeping chamber. The blooming obsidian smoke choked the air from her quarters. Her screams for help were answered by a soot covered man with a receding hairline and ugly intentions.”
Read MoreTwo flash fiction pieces by Jessica Bergquist
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