No neo-golden disguises here, you know this much. You’re silverish. If these were such sweet crimes, nobody could see it entirely. Creeping centrifuge robbery, ‘round every corner here or there. Sticks bundled with twine inside lockets intended to keep even…
Category: Oregon On A Dime
Love
They said nobody can love you like god can love you but how can someone know what love is if it can only be above you I think I seen it today coming in different ways I don’t think it…
Mary Jane
It was two in the morning and the streets were empty when we set out from Dan’s garage. It had been in the plans for weeks, months maybe, but tonight it was actually going to happen. That doesn’t even count…
How I Love You Can Be Said
Allie props her feet up on the dashboard as Laz hits the gas hard down the Interstate; they’ve been traveling along the blinding sun for five hours. Allie’s head throbs. The whole car’s filled with stale air and the smell…
Fire in a Barrel
We had everything we needed that night and it wasn’t the quarter oz. of weed in a small jar in Mike’s older brother’s backpack or the 24 pack of Coors Mike’s older brother got us from the Quikmart – we…
AN ODE TO SMOKING AND THE DEATH OF MY JOURNEY WITH IT
the first cigarette is lovely when you’re drunk, a new foreign thing, temptingly naughty and risky, pressed between your lips, in fumbling awkward fingers, harsh and unpleasant in your throat, in your lungs. you’re fifteen, a sophomore in high school,…
my subconscious is overly sentimental fuck you brain
last night i dreamed my first love was my last love and i didn’t feel the way it felt at 19 with the bitter used up emotions and the public stairs at 7 am maybe there was something purposeful in…
Featured Artist: Kate Burkhardt
Kate Burkhardt, a creative writing major at SOU, is our first featured artist. A fiction writer, poet, and photographer, her work pushes the boundaries in terms of subject matter without sacrificing an ounce in terms of lyricism and depth. See…