FEMININE COLLECTIVE – Page 82 – Humanity: Raw & Unfiltered

Leakage: A Minor Problem

March 18, 2018October 15, 2018 Julene Tripp Weaver

women leak: we do not talk about our leaks: not acceptable dinner conversation: in youth I did not need extra protection, Depends, I had strong elastic muscle: now I’m told, do Kegels: surgery is an option: can we get more extreme? scientific? Pharmaceutical? when all the heart wants is a Read more

Night at the Improv

March 17, 2018October 15, 2018 Monica Catto

I needed a good scare. Something that felt like a roller coaster, but without the height. Entering my fiftieth year, I was contemplating my bucket list and my singledom. A wise friend had told me that “Doing something interesting will make you an interesting person,” so I decided that a Read more

Naked

March 17, 2018October 15, 2018 Ericka Arthur

I feel naked without you So very As if I have been exposed Others here have knocked on my doors, scaled my walls and attempted to climb my every hidden tower As if the gods who live under the earth has told them that my lover needs silence. I do Read more

Leakages

March 16, 2018October 15, 2018 Paakhi Bhatnagar

There is an open faucet under my bed, glazed over my body I am leaking into the people around me- I have never been this honest. In my head, my arms are outstretched draped across a bathtub, two toes sticking out like odd deformities. There is nothing aesthetic about Read more

So. I. Do. This.

March 15, 2018October 15, 2018 Elisabeth Horan

You don’t have to be lonely. I am right here waiting to light up your eyes. I am a dying sun and you are right, I am the realest danger around, but I had to become this white dwarf to learn – men would/will study my ways. So I do, Read more

Nest

March 15, 2018September 14, 2018 Paula R. Hilton

Even in her sleep, the girl knew the wasps were back. She felt one land on her bare leg. I must wake up, I must wake up, I must wake up. Her fingertips grazed her eyelids. They refused to open. She thrashed and kicked and yelled until she willed her Read more

It Happened

March 15, 2018October 15, 2018 Lidy Wilks

It happened on Pleasant street where echoes of laughter ring from three girlfriends living a Dream and birthday celebrations ushering a coming of age brokered by a smile in the dark and “Nice black friend You’ve got there.” Photo Credit: d26b73 Flickr via Compfight cc

The Dangers of Independence

March 14, 2018October 15, 2018 Robin Vigfusson

There was a one-room cottage in the woods that looked like a dollhouse, painted powder blue and shielded by willow trees. It was near the railroad tracks, where we were warned never to go since a classmate was hit by a train, there. No one magical lived there, just a Read more