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• Nonfiction > Memoir
  My Liberated Body

  

  By Sarahhhhhhh, Malden, MA

  My body will be liberated when I can walk home without checking over my shoulder, keeping my keys in my hand, making sure 911 is on speed dial, and keeping my head down. My body will be unchained when I can walk to the corner store in broad daylight without men whistling, snarling obscenities, askin...
• Hot Topics > Pride & Prejudice
  The Sound of Acceptance

  

  By Sarahhhhhhh, Malden, MA

  This stage can't wait for me to fail. The spotlight glares at me, narrows its eyes. The floorboards whisper. I shuffle toward the apron, a jagged precipice. This is my first time on a professional stage, and I'm about to spill my guts to an audience of one thousand shadows. I shake. I've never been ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Church

  

  By Sarahhhhhhh, Malden, MA

  with lifted eyes she clutches that book of lies the pastor screeches "Hallelujah!," jazz-hands and all. never a woman upstaged not even by bright lights and dance numbers (the theatrics of worship) she squeezes out one tear, then another, until she is sobbing for the big man on...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Summer

  

  By Sarahhhhhhh, Malden, MA

  with one last bell, the girls are emancipated, but still chained to this destitute town. now they extend their summer arms, and throw their heads back, eyes closed and hearts open. with squinty eyes, the dazed boys wake and only half-remember the paths they traced through town last n...