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  Mermaids in the Bathtub

  By Tara S., Portland, OR

  I want a house by the ocean like the ones in books where the people that live there can walk outside on the beach and find a mermaid comb on the sand before breakfast. We go to the beach on vacations when Mommy and Dad don’t have to work. We used to go a lot more, but now we only go sometimes. The...
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  By Tara S., Portland, OR

  Bras, skimpy underwear, and lingerie are tossed out of the dressing room, scraps of her rejection. High pitched giggles and Oooo!’s filter down the hall to where I slouch in an armchair, cheeks as red as the maraschino cherry lipstick she’s wearing. The sales woman glances at me. I ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Walking on Caroline Avenue

  By Tara S., Portland, OR

  Walking the strawberry lanes of Caroline Avenue in summer the honey air sets on your skin. You’re swimming in the golden luster, breathing in the warm sun, letting it fill the soul with hazy daydreams lost in clouds. Walking the strawberry lanes holding Caroline’s hand in summer....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Breaking Spring

  By Tara S., Portland, OR

  my pale skin sits idle, clean and smooth. the blood flows orderly in a circle through my veins. too long has it been kept in its narrow prison too long has my skin lay unbroken. the paint is drying it won’t be good much longer now. i itch to be broken open, to flow and breathe the air in...