Love Me Less
A short monologue about abuse and double standards

But do you really? Do you actually love me like you say? ‘Cause you’ve told me that before, over and over, but this isn’t a kind of love I’m familiar […]

Poetry: Cuffing Season

With every season   The Palouse hills show their true character.   Come fall, wheat yellows,  Soil is overturned and   The loan becomes a new.   Much like these hills,  People begin to turn […]

A puppy sitting on the dash of a car.
Adopting a paw-sitive attitude
Moscow residents turn to animal adoption during the pandemic

Bright orange fur, a little pink nose, and soft golden eyes. Jeremy Tamsen puts the furry cat named Tiger back into his kennel at the animal shelter as he debates which […]

The goodbye hike

It was early Saturday morning, and Cree stayed in bed an extra hour. He didn’t want to stop feeling her warmth at his side. Then he was in the kitchen, brewing […]

An illustration of two people playing football.
Letter to a lost love

One Month Ago Treyce Stavinsky is sitting in the hallway directly outside of the vice principal’s office. An officer in a blue uniform has escorted him from his home room. Mr. Patel, the vice principal, is currently talking on the phone with a […]

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Cornerstone

I thought I saw you in the Battleship the other week, nursing a drink. It had been so long since I last saw you. You were at the opposite end […]

tent and campfire
FIREWOOD

You never asked me how I felt about our camping trip. I was afraid to go camping, but I went with you anyway. I hated the cold, disliked bugs, and […]

someone holding the Pride Flag
More Than A Word…

The scene in “A Cinderella Story,” when Chad Michael Murray’s character runs up the bleacher steps to kiss Hillary Duff resonates with me in a different way. That scene was […]