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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 12, 20191 min read

Photography by Belana Marie Labra

Belana Marie Labra is a first-year student at the University of San Diego. She plans to major in Business Administration with a minor in...

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 11, 20194 min read

Flash Fiction by Jacob Greb

Amanel As the trees make music, his head makes structures. So easy for him to bend the metal and form it to a weapon. So easy that in...

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 11, 20195 min read

Flash Fiction by Jacob Greb

Innocent Content My muse dances in front of the windows at exactly four each day after the final roll call of names before the channel...

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 11, 20193 min read

3 Poems by Mitsuko Takayasu

Spider Flowers By the time cottony fluffs in a mackerel sky fade into twilight, spider flowers come into bloom as if spreading their...

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 11, 20194 min read

8 Poems by Shreyaa Tandel

eye thou was sleep; and i was the eye who longed for thy. as i see the trees still, move by the faster grey browns blur.. as i see crowds...

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 11, 20192 min read

2 Poems by Omotoyosi Salami

lost In this city that breathes fire Of people who scamper up mountains but slide back down tragically And try again the next day with...

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 11, 20193 min read

4 Poems by Lucas Brown

Nature is a Language There is something stimulating about the experience of natural light caressing pages of a book read beneath an oak—...

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 11, 20193 min read

Mixed Media by Juliette van der Molen

Painting My World I was in an extremely abusive marriage for 10 years. My physical voice deserted me through all of those years. Though I...

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 11, 20192 min read

4 Poems by Juliette van der Molen

Shrink Me shrink me small until i cannot see the clouds. until the leaves become skyscrapers and the daffodil street lights bow over me...

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 11, 20192 min read

5 Poems by Tom Snarsky

Makeup Tutorial In a different orchard mouse sounds flicker below the ground, an idea of huge music is forged from the loose ribbon...

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 11, 20191 min read

1 Poem by Omotoyosi Salami

black women being good bandages i because every child is god—every child is sinless—every child can redeem its father from his sins, my...

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 8, 20192 min read

4 Poems by Josh Dale

What Comes Next For Grandad Richard the war is over and the good guys came home to spread uniforms among the acres of fertile plush they...

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 7, 20192 min read

5 Poems by Gustavo Barahona-López

Alternative Fact #1984 She says the niños were not put in cages The cages are the barrios and pueblos they came from. We give them food...

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 6, 20197 min read

Essay by Belana Marie Labra

Psychological Effects of Comics Many children might say, “I wanna be like Batman!” or “I want to shoot out webs like Spiderman!” A lot of...

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 6, 20192 min read

2 Poems by Adaeze I.

Childhood folklore we had our rituals each summer: hands sticky with neon color syrup running down our fingers from melted popsicles, our...

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 6, 20191 min read

Mixed Media by Belana Marie Labra

Belana Marie Labra is a first-year student at the University of San Diego. She plans to major in Business Administration with a minor in...

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 6, 201912 min read

Essay by Belana Marie Labra

Cinematics as a Superpower “I remember as a kid I would always watch a lot of sci-fi movies because I thought it was cool, especially...

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 6, 20192 min read

3 Poems by Audrey Bowers

explaining my queerness to my mother it’s been two years since i’ve told her & she still doesn’t seem to understand she calls my identity...

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 6, 20191 min read

1 Poem by Lisa Lerma Weber

Esperanza Her name was Esperanza— Hope But did she have any? Loving a faithless man full of fury and alcohol. A man who would give her...

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 6, 20193 min read

2 Poems by Marisa Silva-Dunbar

Spill for #becky You try to divvy up yourself so you seem like an enigma asking to be solved— you unravel so easily. I am a haruspex; let...

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