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The Love Letter
By Tess VanbergThe second time I got married was the happiest day of my life. It was illegitimate and secretive. It was born of utter foolishness, but the joy that filled my heart that day was unrivaled by anything done before the eyes of the familiar.
The Life of the Party
By Catherine O'Connorthe purple lights start to fade, the crowd dying with them.
your eyes once hidden in the crowd glow vermilion,
failing to camouflage themselves beneath the shadows
of your white pupil, an outcast among the filthy onyx pupils
liberation
By Richard Georgespectra of light shine in and out of
view a rainbow of emotions envelope the
mind as the music pumps harder and louder and faster
computer static is in my ears like bugs
piercing my eardrum drums faster and harder and louder as tears
fall.