FEMININE COLLECTIVE – Page 57 – Humanity: Raw & Unfiltered

Previvor

November 11, 2018November 11, 2018 Virginia Petrucci

Where do these women go when they die, these Women who are like me like how I used to be before I became rooted in stinkless rock? “Previvor” is for the catch of an early dusk before it settles, or the trespass of the moon before dark A champion equals Read more

Shulie

November 11, 2018November 11, 2018 Samantha Rose

When I tell you that she is a fireball, I mean to say that she fears not the charring of cultural silks and rods, burning up oxidized visions until her words are carbon-sealed upon the perennial page, her feminine veil forged in smoke. When I tell you that she is Read more

WAR

November 10, 2018September 13, 2019 Elizabeth Regen

I can’t keep Them straight in my head anymore- The shootings. The victims. The gunmen. The guns used. Vegas. The hotel. The windows of the hotel. From the window of the hotel. The concert. The nightclub. They were dancing. They were young. They were shot. Hiding in the bathroom. At Read more

We DID Overcome

November 8, 2018May 26, 2023 Dori Owen

It started with a sea of “Pink Pussy Hats” in cities across the United States. There were nonbelievers. Unsustainable, the right opined. Some even laughed and said none of the marches would ever make a difference on election day. But the anger and frustration of women appalled at the Trump Read more

Proxy

November 5, 2018November 5, 2018 Kristin Garth

Handpicked handmaiden, raven hair, a charm collected, jaunt in country air. Conveyed to castle, swift, by dainty, dirty arm, for sister, gift; he makes her mirror maid. A countess cloistered, brother bold, a lust rebuffed for years maturates manifold. No hunger for another face, she must be kismet: this twin Read more

True Murders

October 26, 2018November 26, 2018 Brenna Ehrlich

When Lin had imagined a murderer’s mistress, she had pictured leopard print and spandex, glittering baubles and high heels. She would never have pictured Eliza Hanson as she was now: kitted out in a soft pink cardigan, a puffy matching headband holding back her sleek, graying bob, serving drinks with Read more

Jenny Hates Me

October 24, 2018May 7, 2019 Shelly Lynn Stone

Jenny is a YouTube celebrity with thousands of followers. She’s also my roommate and spends most of her days in a ratty bathrobe, reading blogs and watching Fox News. She’s legit the best roommate I’ve ever had. She’s quiet, keeps the bathroom clean and pays her bills. Renting to her Read more

Imagination

October 23, 2018November 26, 2018 Krystal Beatriz Galvis

It was going to happen sooner or later. I couldn’t help it. I let myself imagine he was you. His hand on my hand. His lips on my forehead. His lips on my lips. I would believe that your arms are actually his and that they would wrap around me, Read more