Under the Influence
by Yonder | June 11, 2023 | Spring 2023 | 0 Comments
by Merritt N Shaw It was the first day of school. Megan dreaded going back after having been away for so long. This was her last chance to move forward in life. She had to be strong and try to make this year the one that would make up for all the bad years in high...
Fall Comes Fast, Afognak
by Yonder | June 8, 2023 | Spring 2023 | 0 Comments
by Kellie Brown Someone once told me that love is a circle without ending, Never narrow, It's always bending. So cheers to tumultuous relationships and instantaneous friendships, To dangerous crimson plaid prints and mellifluous crews out in the midst, To...
I am Woman
by Yonder | June 8, 2023 | Spring 2023 | 0 Comments
by Genevieve Bingham This poem is dedicated to the women of Iran I am Woman My very existence is a threat to the system I can rise with the Sun But the Moon’s my religion There’s no way to erase My ancestral wisdom My blood carries the Codes Of...
Indigo
by Yonder | June 8, 2023 | Spring 2023 | 0 Comments
by Kyle Ratsch Joel’s muted footsteps brushed the sidewalk. Dallas stomped about. The heavy fall of his boots echoed between concrete walls and died. He recounted a story from the day, something about him flirting with a girl in class. It had gone...
Expiration Date
by Yonder | June 8, 2023 | Spring 2023 | 0 Comments
A Short One-Act Play by McKenzie Twine CAST OF CHARACTERS CECIL……………………………………………………A person of any age or gender MOMMA………………………………………………… Cecil’s mother and hallucination SCENE CECIL’s bathroom. There is a bright white sink and a bright white...
Jar Fly
by Yonder | June 8, 2023 | Spring 2023 | 0 Comments
by Elizabeth Fisher Jar Fly An estranged couple take a vacation into the wilderness for a last ditch effort at meaningful connection and end up confronting far more than their relationship problems. “Come on,...
Defeat
by Yonder | June 8, 2023 | Spring 2023 | 0 Comments
by Steve Bunting I never thought she’d shift the start of dawn Or focus pretty eyes upon my soul. Our weekly strolls along the Rubicon Did set my youthful sights upon a goal: To ply those sacred waters, dark as coal, And wade through distant reeds with...
Mom is manic at disney world
by Yonder | June 8, 2023 | Spring 2023 | 0 Comments
by Gabrielle Barnes You said when you and dad took me when I was five, I cried and cried on space mountain You sat behind me with your hand over my eyes even though it was already pitch black Even though it reminded me of the nights where I was alone and I...
Chasing the Wind
by Yonder | June 8, 2023 | Spring 2023 | 0 Comments
by Susan Klinkenberg At five o’clock I put down my pen and ordered a Pernod. It was good to stop writing when it was going good. I don’t think about it or worry about it until I start to write the next day. The café was crowded. I walked from my table on the...
Permission
by Yonder | June 8, 2023 | Spring 2023 | 0 Comments
by Emily Poole Laney Kate was maybe seven the first time we watched YouTube videos of kayakers running the annual Green River Narrows Race. Every year, paddlers from all over the world converge on the eastern escarpment of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina,...
Portal
by Yonder | June 8, 2023 | Spring 2023 | 0 Comments
by Audrey Adams Inside my closet is a portal to hell. It looks exactly what I expected it to look like, very lava-forward, and the heat that emanates from it is like a blast from an oven door and not entirely unpleasant. At night there’s faint screaming from...
Bound
by Yonder | June 8, 2023 | Spring 2023 | 0 Comments
A One-Act Play by Aimee Kling CAST OF CHARACTERS MONSTER………………………………………………………A person, any age or gender identity SHEA……………………A young grocery delivery driver, any gender identity PHILIP………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Monster’s father...