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  • A white person with short, light brown hair and black, rectangular glasses smiles with their mouth closed. They wear a black T-shirt. The background is cream colored.

    Hostile Architecture

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    In their first poem for Knee Brace Press, Taylor Kovach writes about self-hatred and passive ideation.

  • A white woman with short, brown hair gazes at the camera. She wears bright red lipstick, dangly silver earrings, and a black turtleneck sweater. The background is a white wall with yellow and pink tulips painted on it.

    Toothpaste

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    In Toothpaste, the essayist learns to live with PTSD as a result of illness, surgeries, and medical malpractice.

  • An interview with Tatiana Schlote-Bonne

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    “Without the doppelganger, I think Such Lovely Skin would still be an interesting (albeit less entertaining) story about grief and self-forgiveness, and those kinds of horror stories where the human component is still really compelling without the monster are my favorite. The monster just heightens everything that’s already there.”

  • Pilate Grimm

    Waves

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    You were a girl on Venus Held my hand through the hallway, then the exit of our School, then to the Venue with our dresses I said, “But I’m promised to a Man down on Earth,” Then I knew.

  • My Spring

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    It was the death of me I didn’t remember

  • An interview with Christen Randall

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    Christen Randall (she/they) writes Young Adult fiction that centers queer, fat, geeky kids. We spoke with them about the anxiety rep in her debut novel, the “not like other girls” trope, and their writing plans for the future.

  • CLD

    The Window

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    A funny thing happens when you’ve ‘failed’ a suicide attempt.

  • HPA axis dysfunction

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    My rabbit heart is in your hands, warm and pulsing, living, skittish.

  • Emergent Self

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    But like the sun, there is Something elevating About the depression Some perspective above.

  • Growth

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    Growth is an illustration by Melody Dover.