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id: genesis-23019
author: Ketchem, Madeline
title: The Fates and Why I Left Them
date: 2019
pages: 9
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  With you all? Madeline Ketchem 64 genesis spring 2017 The Fates and Why I Left Them genesis spring 2017 65 Why? When I returned home that night, I told my mother that I Elizabeth and I rode home each day, Elizabeth turned toward me and Why? Madeline Ketchem 66 genesis spring 2017 ever The Fates and Why I Left Them genesis spring 2017 67 Madeline Ketchem 68 genesis spring 2017 The Fates and Why I Left Them genesis spring 2017 69 Madeline Ketchem genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf genesis spring 2017 61 The Fates and Why I Left Them what is a ‘green day’?


id: genesis-23123
author: Harkins, Ronan
title: Dwarf Planet
date: 2019
pages: 1
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words: 101
sentence: 3
flesch: 67
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  Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Dwarf Planet Ronan Harkins You only saw me as a vagabond among the stars I made like Icarus toward any sign of hope I’d drown with you in Neptune’s waters We’ll swing amongst the debris of asteroids and tilt their orbit We can honeymoon on Venus They are the only two planets in your solar system without a moon I long for the day that you’ll reach out with burning hands To have never touched the ones you love


id: genesis-22974
author: Christoff, Claire
title: The Day After He Dumped You
date: 2019
pages: 1
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sentence: 4
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  The day after he dumped you, let’s-just-take-a-break–style you saw a dead bird on the sidewalk and took a picture of it and sent it to him and he didn’t reply but what did you expect like the dead robin you saw outside the library before it really got cold, sort of an avian miscarriage or maybe abortion, sinewy and sad and kind of like chewed gum, bird bacon and the snow that fell on your head under the singing orange streetlamp, rivulets of broken yolk through your hair. Except it wasn’t snow, it dried hard and purple and you used an entire bottle of Pantene to make you feel civilized again.


id: genesis-23097
author: Chopra, Natasha
title: An Ode to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Racist
date: 2019
pages: 2
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words: 423
sentence: 9
flesch: 45
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  Shashi Tharoor You orator, you historian and scholar, you Owner of honorary Air Force wings, you Not surprising chancellor of a PWI, you Nobel prize winner in literature, you Knight of the Garter, sir, you Prime Minister of England, you Prime Minister of Colonization, you Defender of Avoidable Famine, they Called you king of defending Exalted human values, do they See the irony in the white Of the paper they write that on, they Hired Mr. Oldman to play you oh I’m sorry, I think I meant the winners rewrite history, they Created an entire Wikipedia page Just for your lengthy list of honors, but they Didn’t make one for your racism, I Find that interesting that I Didn’t learn about your racism until I Saw the sadness in my father’s eyes, did you Know that he inherited that glossiness, that distance From his parents – his parents that were born under A Union Jack, the amalgamation of imagery Representing other colonizers, Colored white from the skin of the supremacists, Colored blue from the droplets of the Indian Ocean, Colored red from the blood of my family.


id: genesis-23100
author: Baker, Krista
title: You're Going to be a Ballerina
date: 2019
pages: 1
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mime: application/pdf
words: 84
sentence: 5
flesch: 88
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  You’re Going to be a Ballerina Krista Baker Her body was cold, bitter like the winter wind, or the bile she could always taste. She looked into the mirror every day waiting for a swan to stare back.


id: genesis-23084
author: Williams, Gano
title: Sit with ME
date: 2019
pages: 2
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mime: application/pdf
words: 290
sentence: 11
flesch: 74
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  so I say it again Darkness, comes with Depression I See You look at the seat next to me Choose the one next to me Our eyes meet “Hello” Do I scare you?


id: genesis-23126
author: Marquam, Nathan
title: Paper Lanterns
date: 2019
pages: 2
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words: 187
sentence: 9
flesch: 83
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  the ghosts of the undead write themselves into the strangest Kate Marquam places, and when I say undead Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Paper Lanterns Kate Marquam the ghosts of the undead write themselves into the strangest places.


id: genesis-23092
author: Stone, Mario
title: Dove
date: 2019
pages: 1
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words: 125
sentence: 7
flesch: 97
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  - 23 - Dove Mario Stone Seeking solace in the thrill of shadowed skin, I culled warmth from eager necks, the ruder prey. But your lips, your song, with soft arrest you held me close.


id: genesis-23106
author: Rikkers, Christina Marie
title: My Daughter, This World Will Not Consume You
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 29
sentence: 1
flesch: 63
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  genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 36 genesis spring 2017 My Daughter, This World Will Not Consume You but they hold you here now, like a bear mad with rage, •


id: genesis-23143
author: Bondar, Iryna
title: Myself and The Irrational Fear (of Insects), 2017
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 17
sentence: 1
flesch: 40
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  genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Myself and The Irrational Fear (of Insects), 2017 Iryna Bondar Black Colored Pencil


id: genesis-22981
author: Keller, Kyle
title: Intact
date: 2019
pages: 1
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words: 51
sentence: 4
flesch: 87
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  Another new trot across the meadow as my moon waltzes coyly with clouds, to the music of wind. Intact Kyle Keller


id: genesis-23080
author: Baker, Krista
title: Voiceless Toasts
date: 2019
pages: 1
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words: 137
sentence: 3
flesch: 51
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  - 37 - Voiceless Toasts Krista Baker I’ve become an overflowing glass of water My emotions have drowned themselves In an ocean of numbness and so when I hear The vote is 50-48 I don’t feel it It doesn’t register in my body or my mind I simply nod Understanding the lack of understanding That this country seems to have I look at the person beside me The persons beside me I look at my sisters My mother, my friends I look at my future The future I potentially carry And I wonder if they’ll look up at me With big, wondering eyes And question the world the way that I do


id: genesis-23086
author: Warner, Joseph
title: Punk Rock Sestina
date: 2019
pages: 1
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words: 302
sentence: 22
flesch: 90
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  - 42 - Punk Rock Sestina Joseph Warner A group of people come close enough to fall off the stage they’re paid to play on. A mass of people sprinting towards one another at full speed falling down, picking themselves up and heading right back into it.


id: genesis-23037
author: Cole, Corey
title: A Summer's Night on Skid Row
date: 2019
pages: 1
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words: 102
sentence: 7
flesch: 82
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  promise good times desperately strutting like feral cats on the prowl. by the orange glare of street lamps. Fall 2017 final digital.pdf A Summer's Night on Skid Row Corey Cole outside the service station at 10th and Rural like moths to a gaslight.


id: genesis-22960
author: Harrison, Kali
title: Far Below
date: 2019
pages: 1
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words: 108
sentence: 12
flesch: 82
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  Awaken, fumbling puddles of warm, Egyptian cotton. Far below, the corner of 28th and Jackson bustles.


id: genesis-23118
author: Niepokoj, Caroline
title: The Wooden Girl
date: 2019
pages: 7
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words: 58
sentence: 2
flesch: 59
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  Caroline Niepokoj 10 genesis spring 2017 The Wooden Girl genesis spring 2017 11 Caroline Niepokoj 12 genesis spring 2017 The Wooden Girl genesis spring 2017 13 1996 Caroline Niepokoj genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf genesis spring 2017 7 The Wooden Girl • 8 genesis spring 2017 The Wooden Girl genesis spring 2017 9 want me to leave my home.


id: genesis-22983
author: Perry, David
title: Blue
date: 2019
pages: 1
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mime: application/pdf
words: 96
sentence: 5
flesch: 75
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  It began with a plastic smile, and all we remembered was the television, digital rain, in dead brainless black and white, acid rain, not yet drained from us, and a color we’d never seen before. I remember thinking that he might die like this, with tinsel streamers of steaming red screaming from every pore, and a blinding white light beaming from his eyes.


id: genesis-23073
author: Léon, Tanner
title: Molly Made Me Deconstruct My Masculinity
date: 2019
pages: 3
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words: 380
sentence: 25
flesch: 82
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  There’s more power in holding hands Tanner Léon than there is in pulling yourself up. It takes more bravery to love, than to destroy.


id: genesis-22976
author: Turmail, Sarah
title: With Love, Steve
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 233
sentence: 9
flesch: 74
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  I drive in with the consolation prize of McDonald’s won with the change, thinking of stale dollar store air, and stale McChickens, ranch only. I look for some last minute love, printed and sold for a dollar and some change, matching envelope included.


id: genesis-23146
author: White, Anna
title: The Death of Great Aunt June
date: 2019
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 424
sentence: 29
flesch: 94
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  genesis 2018 final digital.pdf The Death of Great Aunt June Anna White Mark sat with his hands hanging between his knees, his back slumped. Mark shifted his weight.


id: genesis-23155
author: Hall, Ashton
title: How to Get Rid of a Hickey
date: 2019
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1489
sentence: 111
flesch: 93
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  You glance in the side mirror as she drives you to Steak ‘n Shake and see the necklace of hickeys she left behind. She laughs and says, “Only get hickeys below the shirt.”


id: genesis-23032
author: Ketchem, Madeline
title: The Mirror Sister
date: 2019
pages: 2
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mime: application/pdf
words: 54
sentence: 1
flesch: 26
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  genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 38 genesis spring 2017 The Mirror Sister “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -Eleanor Roosevelt Hamilton, Wicked, The Book of Mormon the media our nation in unison poor bone structure sunken eye sockets small lips short eyelashes unpronounced eyebrows • genesis spring 2017 39 One day


id: genesis-23008
author: Spaulding, Brandon
title: Ode to a Mug
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 82
sentence: 4
flesch: 65
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  genesisFall2016.pdf genesis fall 2016 21 Ode to a Mug Brandon Spaulding O, exalted mug! To the multitude you may appear humdrum, even dreary; your smooth porcelain stained like walls of a deserted dollhouse and brunette rings of Saturn circling your cavity into infinity.


id: genesis-23111
author: St-Victor, Jeanyce
title: History: Boone County
date: 2019
pages: 1
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mime: application/pdf
words: 80
sentence: 8
flesch: 83
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  genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 22 genesis spring 2017 History: Boone County Stay quiet…pretend you are still asleep. 8% of adolescents, aged 12-17, abused pain relievers in the year 2009- 2010. RUN! 66% of rape victims know their assailant.


id: genesis-23009
author: Johnson, Victoria
title: Waitressing and Us
date: 2019
pages: 6
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words: 2716
sentence: 236
flesch: 94
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  genesisFall2016.pdf 14 genesis fall 2016 Waitressing and Us Victoria Johnson I met Donald toward the end of the night. Many people were new and most “You know, Donald, maybe it would’ve worked in another life.”


id: genesis-23083
author: Hendricks, Elijah
title: When Death Danced with the Ocean Blue
date: 2019
pages: 1
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words: 320
sentence: 8
flesch: 74
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  As Death danced with the Ocean Blue Your lips meet mine in crashing waves which echo cries throughout the cave that I have lived in all this time Where I had hid till you were mine And then the spots of light appear My vision breaks and balance veers You’ve turned to mist and slowly faded Your lingering kiss has left me jaded I stumble then along the line For sleep has wronged me to feel right I was the boy who fooled his pain with visions of the falsely gained The Prince of Ghosts, I am the same - 41 - When Death Danced with the Ocean Blue Elijah Hendricks I search for solace, all alighted So consumed and unrequited For the sea to turn tides in my arms, erode my heart I meant no harm The wounds have opened up again Your salty skin poured over them While I tremble as I pine for you


id: genesis-23094
author: Kinder, Nick
title: crocodile
date: 2019
pages: 1
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mime: application/pdf
words: 57
sentence: 1
flesch: 48
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  - 8 - crocodile Nick Kinder with a cry the world shot itself in the heart and the bullet flew through classrooms and theaters and ghettos and concerts and churches and daughters and sons and uncles and aunties and mothers and fathers and the crocodile choked on his tears and said, “i wish there was something we could do.”


id: genesis-23099
author: Christoff, Claire
title: Superstar
date: 2019
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 997
sentence: 87
flesch: 89
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summary:
  Karen Carpenter was born on March 2, 1950. Todd Haynes directed, wrote, and co-produced Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story in 1987, while he was still a film student at Bard.


id: genesis-23015
author: Smith, Megan
title: G-R-A-N-D-M-A
date: 2019
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 56
sentence: 1
flesch: 38
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  genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 78 genesis spring 2017 G-R-A-N-D-M-A Megan Smith • genesis spring 2017 79 80 genesis spring 2017 G-R-A-N-D-M-A genesis spring 2017 81 Megan Smith 82 genesis spring 2017 G-R-A-N-D-M-A genesis spring 2017 83 Megan Smith


id: genesis-23018
author: Bennett, Emily
title: The Sickness
date: 2019
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 59
sentence: 1
flesch: 30
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  genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf genesis spring 2017 71 The Sickness Now that I am eight, I know a lot more about the world, •Best of Non-Fiction 72 genesis spring 2017 The Sickness genesis spring 2017 73 74 genesis spring 2017 Not long after that Mother told me I better be good The Sickness genesis spring 2017 75


id: genesis-23134
author: Kinder, Nick
title: Gen.
date: 2019
pages: 1
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mime: application/pdf
words: 127
sentence: 5
flesch: 62
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  genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Gen. Nick Kinder We, the generation that sheds others we deem to be “dead weight,” We, the generation We, the generation with chains on our ankles and the world on our backs, as our parents live stream our missteps to their Facebook groups. We, the generation one younger and one with more regrets, and both grinned, and both knew this was a lie.


id: genesis-22978
author: Keller, Kyle
title: Yeah, No. Nothing Serious
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 130
sentence: 6
flesch: 82
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summary:
  In a light sleep, she stirs & dreams once more of restless folk-strings on a worn stage, in orange -aura, outdoor summer symphonies, amid the hazy evening hum from hidden swarms of cicadas. Nothing Serious Kyle Keller


id: genesis-23096
author: Chopra, Natasha
title: DOES GRIEVING EVER END OR DO ITS INSTANCES JUST GROW FURTHER AND FURTHER APART
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 277
sentence: 4
flesch: 34
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  i did not realize that choosing this dupatta led to such a strict cleaning regiment, did not realize i had to ration out my laundry, dirty it only so much before it started fading, slipping through my royal blue nails, the weight of commitment rests heavily on my lungs; i wonder if dadi ever cringed when i called her sarees dupattas or the other way around, but the more i think about her, the more she fractures, the more she fades, i didn’t realize i had to ration out my grief, didn’t realize i had such a strict schedule to mourn her, i wonder if she’s even there at all or if she washed out over time, becoming only a ghost i wish i could be haunted by. - 62 - DOES GRIEVING EVER END OR DO ITS INSTANCES JUST GROW FURTHER AND FURTHER APART Natasha Chopra the indigo dye of my new dupatta rubs off on my fingertips, turning the white strips of my nails a faded royal blue; i wonder if dadi ever wore this color, wonder if her hands ever looked like mine, wonder if she knew the last time we spoke would be the last time we spoke; i remember in college, i learned that every time you think of a memory, you only think of the last time you remembered it, you remember only its ghost.


id: genesis-22975
author: Dimitrova, Kalia
title: Neruda's Roselets
date: 2019
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 183
sentence: 11
flesch: 88
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  You want me sweet and light I am torta caprese, you go back to in that corner café in Capri where you write me in hot evenings when I wait to be born over and over. genesisSpring2016.pdf 34 genesis spring 2016 In your palms I dissolve, you want me tender, I am seawater disappearing in your warmth.


id: genesis-23103
author: Leonard, Rachel
title: For the Freckle in Her Eye
date: 2019
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 223
sentence: 12
flesch: 90
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  I hadn’t seen your face so soaked since the night that yellow house turned singing that Postal Service song: I am thinking it’s a sign that the freckles (Although we have never kissed except for one Halloween, and what could be real between a mere mermaid and an elf queen?) For the Freckle in Her Eye Rachel Leonard genesis fall 2016 9 wrapped gifts you got that year. genesisFall2016.pdf 8 genesis fall 2016 You said, When I’m dead, do my hair like Madonna.


id: genesis-22979
author: Turmail, Sarah
title: The Lesser of Appalachia
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 200
sentence: 12
flesch: 84
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  They hum the Southern battle cry with the cicadas, while closing screen doors keep the rhythm steadied. genesisSpring2016.pdf genesis spring 2016 31 strips of new wheat sway in the sand like planted chorus lines.


id: genesis-23088
author: Léon, Tanner
title: Our Time
date: 2019
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 702
sentence: 34
flesch: 81
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summary:
  So it’s no wonder we chant in the streets for more fun and less work. Raised on meat and Republican bias but still cast our first votes for Bernie: hope never died, it was born into us.


id: genesis-23051
author: Harkins, Ronan
title: Soft Boy
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 123
sentence: 1
flesch: -14
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  Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Soft Boy Ronan Harkins You pray at night to gods thought long dead One day, they will answer but you don’t know when In the morning, In the afternoon, they teach you grace on your feet You wish to walk the earth with no fear and the gods behind you You are a rabid wolf trapped in the body of a child This skin is too tight This skin is an unrelenting snake with endless coils of muscle No, I will be a man worth fearing You are as a rose, they say Yes, but that does not make me weak I am not what you make me Only I know me Only the gods can make me


id: genesis-23031
author: Cole, Corey
title: Dr. Lector on the Lam
date: 2019
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 38
sentence: 1
flesch: 48
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  genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf genesis spring 2017 45 Dr. Lector on the Lam • 46 genesis spring 2017 watching her grace in dealing with an unruly bunch of teenage cre Dr. Lector on the Lam by Corey Cole


id: genesis-23145
author: Kinder, Nick
title: Tired
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 123
sentence: 4
flesch: 80
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  Maybe it just won’t come back to me I’m just tired, is all Can’t forgive anymore Forgot to eat again Haven’t talked in months Forgetting faces of them I’m just tired, is all My alarm broke the emptiness I feel the need to write Why am I not asleep? genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Tired Nick Kinder


id: genesis-22980
author: Rowley, Piper
title: She
date: 2019
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1240
sentence: 107
flesch: 98
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  We looked at each other for a long time, eyes, and then she nodded, ever so slightly. Sometimes she steals my boxers, rolls the waist- She Piper Rowley genesis spring 2016 25 ly breathless.


id: genesis-23030
author: Rowley, Piper
title: 7095
date: 2019
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 51
sentence: 1
flesch: 37
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  genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf genesis spring 2017 41 7095 track, • 42 genesis spring 2017 The faith that failed him, The kitchen where he told me I am the evidence why are you crying, 7095 genesis spring 2017 43 I lay my head down and think of unknowing neighborhood, Piper Rowley


id: genesis-23081
author: Northcutt, Moriah
title: Tankas for Runaways
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 140
sentence: 18
flesch: 108
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summary:
  Paper cup in hand. - 54 - Tankas for Runaways Moriah Northcutt When is it my turn to be able to say mom or dad?


id: genesis-23152
author: Léon, Tanner
title: Stand Like the Bull
date: 2019
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 289
sentence: 13
flesch: 78
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summary:
  exhumed into the lap pool, you could see the apparition Tanner Léon of energy streaked through like squirts of Mio in your bottle, dragon claw marks left behind. at his royal departure from the water, his kingdom, as though Neptune rose again. His hair is all tucked up into a swim cap, a ball of fury and warping potential energy.


id: genesis-23102
author: Smith, Rachel
title: The Song of a Sparrow Trapped in a Supermarket
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 185
sentence: 7
flesch: 72
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  genesisFall2016.pdf 6 genesis fall 2016 Amidst the melody of beeping registers and the harmony of whirring carts, I stand at a table of graphic tees in the men’s department, folding a shirt depicting a cat on the moon, dressed as an astronaut, stop to look at Ball State hoodies. The boy, bored with clothes not meant for him, zips between the racks, unaware of smears of bird droppings left on the metal frames like notes on sheet music, to the song of supply and demand.


id: genesis-23149
author: Lee, Nancy
title: Sharp Season
date: 2019
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 156
sentence: 12
flesch: 80
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  His rough magic curated the work of ample artists through thickets of gallery walls and career pitfalls. genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Sharp Season Nancy Lee He escaped his clan and insisted on a new name.


id: genesis-23104
author: Leonard, Rachel
title: Like Clay and Shale
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 70
sentence: 6
flesch: 86
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  Morning was rich with the scent of Parliaments and the gasps of matches scraping brick. Like Clay and Shale Rachel Leonard


id: genesis-23045
author: Stone, Mario
title: Nosferatu
date: 2019
pages: 1
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words: 119
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  Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Nosferatu Mario Stone I lurk in the black room with one frail light naked like a moon famished men with cadaver grins and sickle fangs beg at her feet. Their black veins glisten and throb, pulsing through taut skin.


id: genesis-23109
author: Rea-Hedrick, Eden
title: Passing
date: 2019
pages: 10
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words: 92
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summary:
  Passing genesis spring 2017 27 Eden Rea-Hedrick 28 genesis spring 2017 Passing genesis spring 2017 29 Eden Rea-Hedrick 30 genesis spring 2017 Passing genesis spring 2017 31 Eden


id: genesis-23000
author: Christoff, Claire
title: Free Falling
date: 2019
pages: 2
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mime: application/pdf
words: 802
sentence: 49
flesch: 89
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summary:
  The night rushed past in a blue haze as In age of less adept drivers and their cars struck Sam as being a sort of creepy memorial to something to stick his head out the window of Dick’s pick up truck like a dog and breathe in just one more taste of that deliciously thick air he had missed so much, but he had a feeling Dick wouldn’t like that. The cook opened the drawer, his stubby tents, Sam turned to Dick accusatorily.


id: genesis-23089
author: Walter, Ayla
title: My Name
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 169
sentence: 9
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summary:
  Rib cage over treetops, curling lips stretched like electrical wires across mountains over train track seas—I am swimming. Unafraid of softer darknesses speaking in second hand words and dreaming—I am just dreaming.


id: genesis-23116
author: Bennett, Blake
title: Restaurant of the Mind
date: 2019
pages: 2
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words: 26
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summary:
  genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 16 genesis spring 2017 Restaurant of the Mind Faulkner, Joyce, Vonnegut, • genesis spring 2017 17 In the daylight I look down


id: genesis-22994
author: Johnson, Victoria
title: The Bee Whisperer
date: 2019
pages: 6
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mime: application/pdf
words: 3150
sentence: 288
flesch: 99
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summary:
  I’d seen Danny pet bees a dozen times Victoria Johnson genesis fall 2016 45 The Bee Whisperer by then, but this time, when he ran toward the bee, he must’ve frightened it. I one of Danny coloring.


id: genesis-23066
author: Jefferson, Brelyn
title: Rita Marley and the Glitter Trail
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 145
sentence: 10
flesch: 88
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summary:
  the Glitter Trail Brelyn Jefferson I trudged back to my room in lead slippers, noting the glitter trail snaked down the hall.


id: genesis-23142
author: Dietz II, Cleveland
title: What Could Have Been
date: 2019
pages: 9
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1821
sentence: 135
flesch: 75
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summary:
  Journal of Molecular Psychiatry U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, 2016 November, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ International Journal of Bipolar Disorders, vol. 3, no. 13, 2015. Journal of Molecular Psychiatry U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, 2016 November, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ U.S. Food and Drug Administration 10 Ibid.


id: genesis-23130
author: Soderling, Trenna
title: Visiting Hours
date: 2019
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1217
sentence: 64
flesch: 83
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summary:
  I glanced over the pages, scanning for places to put my shaky initials. Not like what you see in those prison TV shows, the ones nonviolent criminals clumped together to wait out their sentences. in, wanting to hide more of my feet, but I found the chair wouldn’t move, stuck in place not only by bolts but by years of rust cementing it everyone around me, unsure of what to do now that I was stripped of my possessions.


id: genesis-22987
author: McMichael, Carie
title: That Metaphor Bullshit
date: 2019
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 263
sentence: 7
flesch: 59
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summary:
  genesisSpring2016.pdf 10 genesis spring 2016 All my classmates write important things to their ex-best friend, Jesus; they all seem deep and important, their nibs all too coagulated with ink to actually say what they’re talking about, so we coat it in waxy ambergris, terribly poignant, hyper-extended metaphor, something like, “I am a square peg in a round hole,” when what you really mean is I LOVE THE SENSATION OF ANAL INTERCOURSE AND AS A MAN, I QUESTION WHAT THAT MEANS FOR MY SEXUALITY, OR DARE I SAY, WHAT WILL MY MOM THINK? Perhaps the solid tangle of copper wire is not spool-able, which is what I scribble casually in some hollow margin when what I really mean is I AM TOO TONGUE-TIED, MY BRAIN IS TOO FRIED to eloquently convey my fractured being.


id: genesis-23035
author: Bruszewski, Caitlyn
title: A Poem for the Next Generation of Women
date: 2019
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 305
sentence: 18
flesch: 89
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summary:
  hit, cheat, rape, or demean me because men do not want us to know that they are weak. Fall 2017 final digital.pdf A Poem for the Next Generation of Women Caitlyn Bruszewski I walk the streets at night hoping, wishing, praying That my clothing does not hug my body too tight.


id: genesis-23055
author: Knapp, Will
title: if lovin screw is wrong, I don't wanna be right
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 21
sentence: 2
flesch: 79
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summary:
  Fall 2017 final digital.pdf if lovin screw is wrong, I don't wanna be right Will Knapp Ink with Digital Color


id: genesis-23026
author: Ketchem, Madeline
title: For the Young Black Man with Heavy Footsteps
date: 2019
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 75
sentence: 4
flesch: 79
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summary:
  genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 48 genesis spring 2017 For the Young Black Man with Heavy Footsteps On my way home from the library I hear footsteps more often than not, They disappear at the stoplight on Blackford Or the crosswalk on Michigan. Today they fall heavy past both.


id: genesis-23069
author: Alcala, Joseph
title: Poppies
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 188
sentence: 14
flesch: 89
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summary:
  Thousands of miles away, his mother is making his favorite, hominy soup with potatoes. genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Poppies Joseph Alcala Here lies a ground soaked in blood.


id: genesis-23098
author: Thamba, Aish
title: babe
date: 2019
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 273
sentence: 15
flesch: 91
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txt: txt/genesis-23098.txt
summary:
  - 17 - babe Aish Thamba i called you babe, accidentally, of course... perhaps it was a slip of the tongue just as much as your fingers slip between mine or perhaps your shoulder: a steady warmth against the light of day.


id: genesis-23136
author: Moore, Taylor
title: All Peanut Butter
date: 2019
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 876
sentence: 65
flesch: 97
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summary:
  Miss K brings us out more peanut to braid it back for me. “No, Miss K, my mom will not be happy to pay that money.” All Peanut Butter My response did not seem to be wanted.


id: genesis-22996
author: Lieshout, Atelier Van; Johnson, Victoria
title: Funky Bones
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 197
sentence: 17
flesch: 96
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summary:
  genesisFall2016.pdf 38 genesis fall 2016 Thinking of Funky Bones by Atelier Van Lieshout Funky Bones At first it’s a mess of white blocks lying on an open, green lawn with people walking and jumping from block to block. The girl jumps from bone to bone with her father holding her hand.


id: genesis-23025
author: Flott, Caroline
title: Detachment
date: 2019
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 27
sentence: 1
flesch: 29
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summary:
  genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf genesis spring 2017 51 Detachment • 52 genesis spring 2017 Fast and Furious Detachment genesis spring 2017 53 54 genesis spring 2017 Detachment


id: genesis-23101
author: Turmail, Sarah
title: Lucy, I'm Home
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 138
sentence: 8
flesch: 84
cache: cache/genesis-23101.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-23101.txt
summary:
  He is Babylon, collapsed after a seven lapped walk, and if I fold enough socks, that I ever loved whiskey breath and bad teeth. genesisSpring2016.pdf 4 genesis spring 2016 Lucy, I’m Home Sarah Turmail Pal, I need to weep.


id: genesis-22984
author: Turmail, Sarah
title: A Butcher and His Family's First Christmas After Losing a Loved One
date: 2019
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 318
sentence: 24
flesch: 94
cache: cache/genesis-22984.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-22984.txt
summary:
  They’re like any knife pulled from the drawer of spare Mason jar lids and stained hot pads. Aunt Jane just looks at me and shakes her head.


id: genesis-23082
author: Marquam, Nathan
title: To my sister, the artist
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 198
sentence: 13
flesch: 84
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txt: txt/genesis-23082.txt
summary:
  I beg you, little sister, stay soft. clearance-bin fabric, leftover scraps of family cut at odd angles around a missing father, your own body.


id: genesis-23068
author: Carnes, M. E.
title: Ode to washing my hands
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 181
sentence: 6
flesch: 72
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summary:
  genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Ode to washing my hands M.E. Carnes Grabbing ahold of the metal knob I pull it towards me, unleashing a torrent of water— and thud against the skin of my arms as if the water can sense inside of me. I watch as the steam rises, and like a burner on an old stove my hands turn an angry red; the water searing through my skin the pain ignited in my hands a distraction from the bruise that hugs my left eye, I take hold of the bar of soap twisting it between my hands I rub my hands against each other, coating them in the silky white silt— scrubbing every inch of skin that stretches as if I could wash away the purple bracelets his hands left on me.


id: genesis-23052
author: Coffman-Mackey, Elizabeth
title: Beauty
date: 2019
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 877
sentence: 52
flesch: 88
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summary:
  “I try harder than you,” she says in more words, words that sound like biting classroom insults, words like “lose weight” and “don’t be a slob.” Her waist is trim and her eyes are “You’re perfect,” I say, in more words, words that come out bitter and accusing.


id: genesis-23087
author: Northcutt, Moriah
title: Mama Never Cried
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 290
sentence: 20
flesch: 97
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summary:
  Then Mama began to sit around for days on end In her pj's with the messy hair. And Mama never let manners slide.


id: genesis-23133
author: Rowley, Piper
title: Birth Giver
date: 2019
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 154
sentence: 17
flesch: 71
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txt: txt/genesis-23133.txt
summary:
  Best of Poetry Piper Rowley carried by pink soles, cracked and calloused. hard drinking, childhood trauma, adult mistakes gray.


id: genesis-23154
author: Koenn, Jayce
title: Seven Ways to Come Out
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 406
sentence: 30
flesch: 93
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summary:
  Solution #4: Get a cake that comes out for you—with a lot of rainbows— in their favorite flavor. Follow the second part of Solution #1 if this fails.


id: genesis-23064
author: Rowley, Piper
title: Feminine Bodies
date: 2019
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 521
sentence: 49
flesch: 84
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summary:
  “Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.” these parts. Now, my body does not feel like my own. bodies.


id: genesis-23040
author: Marquam, Nathan
title: Metaphor
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 102
sentence: 6
flesch: 84
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summary:
  when people ask if I’m ok, I tell them that shit happens. Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Metaphor Kate Marquam the fall is not a metaphor for my father.


id: genesis-23128
author: Stone, Mario
title: My home is home to many
date: 2019
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 183
sentence: 8
flesch: 85
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txt: txt/genesis-23128.txt
summary:
  Fall 2017 final digital.pdf My home is home to many Mario Stone written @ Saint Matthew’s House, homeless shelter in Collier County, Florida Here time is sharp, cuts lights out at ten as the lingering chatter dies down like gossip found out. Jealous, the bites on my arms scream to the bites on my calves and the bites on my ankles, tearing skin add to the din, cough itch scratch itch itch cough itch scratch.


id: genesis-23063
author: Marley, Ethan
title: Greenwood
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 155
sentence: 8
flesch: 78
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txt: txt/genesis-23063.txt
summary:
  genesis 2018 final digital.pdf Greenwood Ethan Marley Greenwood stands in front of its shabby house, bragging about the paint job and smoking with a steaming cup of joe down your shirt. Greenwood laughs at the kids with rings in their noses, hotels a town over in early March.


id: genesis-23058
author: Schmitt, Isaac
title: Forever Moments.
date: 2019
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 15
sentence: 2
flesch: 63
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txt: txt/genesis-23058.txt
summary:
  Isaac Schmitt Photography 8.25 380 Isaac Schmitt accident pinned Fall 2017 final digital.pdf Forever Moments.


id: genesis-23004
author: Johnson, Victoria
title: First Sleepover
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 134
sentence: 7
flesch: 84
cache: cache/genesis-23004.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-23004.txt
summary:
  First Sleepover A Night with Van Gogh and Picasso Victoria Johnson She pointed at one of a woman with yellow lips who seemed to be in all places at once, and she laughed.


id: genesis-23158
author: Marley, Ethan
title: Back on the Horse
date: 2019
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2587
sentence: 172
flesch: 92
cache: cache/genesis-23158.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-23158.txt
summary:
  John jabbed his fork full of spiraled spaghetti at Eric. Eric stared into his cup, watching the last sip of almond-colored Folgers sway from side to side as he rolled the cup in his hand, thinking about his “single life” that he had built for himself, that John was trying so desperately to get him away from.


id: genesis-23093
author: Ryder, Dustin
title: Holy Grounds
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 323
sentence: 20
flesch: 86
cache: cache/genesis-23093.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-23093.txt
summary:
  I’m corrupting Holy grounds, spilling sins like wine. There’s a smashing of lips, copper and tiger lilies mixing.


id: genesis-23095
author: Léon, Tanner
title: Adam's Delight
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 110
sentence: 4
flesch: 79
cache: cache/genesis-23095.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-23095.txt
summary:
  I scrub you clean before I feast I could churn you into butter bathe your body in caramel— kiss your colors & caress your curves split you open on the table— eager fingers on your Fuji oh great gift your Grannysmith— horndoggin’ for Honeycrisp.


id: genesis-23085
author: Léon, Tanner
title: These Rivers Run
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 156
sentence: 6
flesch: 82
cache: cache/genesis-23085.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-23085.txt
summary:
  - 15 - These Rivers Run Tanner Léon I am the veins of this world ‘Y’ and ‘V’ painted across your map my joints are foamy hiccups where the fluid falls in grace hopping the skips and dips of the landscape I am a true border— gravity the only king yanking the reins decreeing me forward to slip through the moonlight sonata of the moon’s fingers— wispy spindles trying to tickle me away from fate’s wading pool. There used to be shrines you don’t hear my pain


id: genesis-23156
title: genesis-23156
pages: 7
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3027
sentence: 220
flesch: 89
cache: cache/genesis-23156.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-23156.txt
summary:
  It was all in an effort to ensure we’d be providing them with a normal, healthy baby for a well-paying set of adoptive parents. I just needed more time.


id: genesis-25369
author: Christoff, Claire
title: Elegy for Mama
date: 2021
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 145
sentence: 16
flesch: 94
cache: cache/genesis-25369.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25369.txt
summary:
  Her last night on Earth was spent at a party thrown by Mick Jagger, just before her heart surrendered in a bed familiar with death. - 11 - The Times reported that “Miss Elliot” choked to death on a sandwich.


id: genesis-25443
author: Léon, Tanner
title: An Ode to Hot Sauce
date: 2021
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 231
sentence: 21
flesch: 83
cache: cache/genesis-25443.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25443.txt
summary:
  Léon Feeble bodies fumble on tasteless foods, causing grumpy moods: lost in the black and white world of culinary catastrophe, they search for any ounce of color... A smoldering whip cracks Louisiana Lightning Strike from the sky, 50 sauntering me into a slow sway, coiled with the snake of spice.


id: genesis-25374
author: Warner, Joseph
title: The Fog Rolls In
date: 2021
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 247
sentence: 15
flesch: 89
cache: cache/genesis-25374.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25374.txt
summary:
  I could hear the mice scurry by as I played land locked marco polo with fog bound friends. These days I’ve left suburbs far behind opting for alleys over cul-de-sacs and ditching the ball caps for a nine to five.


id: genesis-24023
author: Marquam, Nathan
title: Calavera... Calavera...
date: 2020
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 313
sentence: 25
flesch: 95
cache: cache/genesis-24023.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-24023.txt
summary:
  Bite it, swallow it and survive, Come out the far black tunnel of el Día de Muerte, And be glad, ah so glad you are… alive!” - Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree i. I’ll ride the wind like a bicycle over rocks, through ravines until I find you. iii. Shimmering, like swimming up from the bottom of someplace dark, I see you.


id: genesis-22992
author: Castoreno, Carolina
title: Recuerdos
date: 2019
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 347
sentence: 20
flesch: 82
cache: cache/genesis-22992.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-22992.txt
summary:
  for every nativity play and Dia de Guadalupe. Sorry Wela, the Virgencita doesn’t visit my house much these days.


id: genesis-23124
author: Cole, Corey
title: Standardized
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 105
sentence: 4
flesch: 65
cache: cache/genesis-23124.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-23124.txt
summary:
  What is education? a. of countless forgotten volumes, but the vulnerable gray of 56 million youth given few alternatives. b. Operation of gridded assembly line classrooms completing black and white and earn graduation pink slips.


id: genesis-26957
author: Freestone, Abigail; Hanquier, Zoe
title: Letter from the Editors
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 179
sentence: 8
flesch: 53
cache: cache/genesis-26957.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-26957.txt
summary:
  Abby & Zoe Managing Editors - 3 - genesis has been publishing student work since 1972 and is entirely selected, designed, and edited by dedicated IUPUI editors.


id: genesis-23010
author: Staublin, Kathryn
title: Cookies to Die For
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 114
sentence: 5
flesch: 68
cache: cache/genesis-23010.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-23010.txt
summary:
  Cookies to Die For Kathryn Staublin The jar is pumpkin shaped and made of glorious He lives within, wishing to smell the scent of Chocolate Chip Chewy Munchables Crunching with age.


id: genesis-26219
author: Kucaj, Shannon
title: Cobweb Words
date: 2022
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 82
sentence: 4
flesch: 80
cache: cache/genesis-26219.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-26219.txt
summary:
  Just a tiny opening for silky strands to crisscross between teeth a home for dewy egg clusters to hatch, craving warm juices to fill their little bellies. Cobweb Words Shannon Kucaj Hairy spider legs tiptoe over goosebumps planting on plump lips tip tapping teeth as she sleeps awaiting her moist mouth’s answer.


id: genesis-25440
author: Hunsinger, Zoey
title: The Impressionist
date: 2021
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 133
sentence: 8
flesch: 77
cache: cache/genesis-25440.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25440.txt
summary:
  His spectacles faltered as he studied the water and ignored the rusted hills of cavalry New Mexico. There wasn’t enough paint on his palette, so he marbled a pigment of his imagination.


id: genesis-25430
author: Hunsinger, Zoey
title: Throw Away Your Prozac (Best of)
date: 2021
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 813
sentence: 70
flesch: 97
cache: cache/genesis-25430.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25430.txt
summary:
  Throw Away Your Prozac Zoey Hunsinger Stay in bed. She also won’t like that you stay in bed all day with your curtains shut.


id: genesis-25366
author: Stephens, Megan
title: Lukewarm (Best of Fiction)
date: 2021
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1932
sentence: 113
flesch: 91
cache: cache/genesis-25366.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25366.txt
summary:
  You’re trying to break away from the sugar and creamer and only drink black coffee — it’s the only way to keep yourself from feeling numb. The kitchen cabinet is filled with a variety of coffee mugs; you take one that has Mount Rushmore printed in gold and, in vibrant colors, says The Black Hills of South Dakota.


id: genesis-26202
author: Stewart, Ollie
title: Eli in the Passenger Seat
date: 2022
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 133
sentence: 8
flesch: 94
cache: cache/genesis-26202.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-26202.txt
summary:
  And in the space you bend, your will to cold air, I see why some people spend their whole lives On these roads that no one ventures anymore A flare of red against the dusk Raised veins; like yours Eli in the Passenger Seat Ollie Stewart


id: genesis-25425
author: Trimpe, Rebecca
title: Gladiator
date: 2021
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 395
sentence: 45
flesch: 101
cache: cache/genesis-25425.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25425.txt
summary:
  Says he should wait ‘til high school. Defense coach first year: Can’t you hang some more meat on that boy?


id: genesis-26196
author: Tuzzio, Laura
title: Address Unknown
date: 2022
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 559
sentence: 73
flesch: 104
cache: cache/genesis-26196.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-26196.txt
summary:
  Address Unknown Laura Tuzzio Della Dear, He says your name. You were there, Della Dear, waiting for him.


id: genesis-22973
author: Dodd, Aaron
title: Pools 1, 2, 3
date: 2019
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 31
sentence: 1
flesch: 49
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  genesisSpring2016.pdf genesis spring 2016 5 Pools I Acrylic 24x36” Aaron Dodd genesis spring 2016 33 Pools III Acrylic 24x36” Aaron Dodd 20 genesis spring 2016 Pools II Acrylic 24x36” Aaron Dodd


id: genesis-24007
author: Lemke, Emily
title: Consecrated Restraint
date: 2020
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 16
sentence: 1
flesch: 47
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  - 22 - Consecrated Restraint Emily Lemke Colored pencil, watercolor paint, watercolor pencil, gold leaf, 12 x 20


id: genesis-25383
author: Stone, Mario
title: Sanctuary
date: 2021
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 93
sentence: 6
flesch: 85
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summary:
  - 50 - You are warmer than a fat loaf of bread fresh out the oven, a hugging sun with softest palms. Mario Stone Sanctuary


id: genesis-26214
author: Back, Rachel
title: Escaping St. Peters, Indiana
date: 2022
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 199
sentence: 10
flesch: 83
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  St. Peters had become my prison, Blue Creek my cell block, and if I remained I would serve a life sentence buried between the two trees, the lovers reaching but never catching the other. Escaping St. Peters, Indiana Rachel Back I buried myself in the cold asphalt street.


id: genesis-26184
author: Walter, Ayla
title: One or Another
date: 2022
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 241
sentence: 10
flesch: 79
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summary:
  A list of things I am angry about still: the unknown multiplex of moments I’ve forgotten, on purpose or otherwise bug-bites and small things fingernails and tangled hair torn smooth my stomach churning sour milk into butter making acid sweet, turning light cream heavy the speechless gravity of it all. Wet voices, speaking of only sweet sharp things of being smothered of being cut and sliced and threaded through a needle’s eye.


id: genesis-26204
author: Back, Rachel
title: She Set Herself Aflame
date: 2022
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 146
sentence: 11
flesch: 90
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summary:
  Put it in her soul where she tended the flame with careful hands, feeding it kindling until it burst from her like hairspray meeting the wicked warmth. Consumed in hot golden flames, were the pillars of hate you poured the foundation for.


id: genesis-23023
author: Hyde, JP
title: What Comes Together Also Separates
date: 2019
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 48
sentence: 1
flesch: 31
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summary:
  genesis spring 2017 digital issue.pdf 56 genesis spring 2017 What Comes Together Also Separates JP Hyde • genesis spring 2017 57 him but turn away unfazed unlike the day they, young and full of 58 genesis spring 2017 What Comes Together Also Separates genesis spring 2017 59 JP Hyde


id: genesis-23090
author: Léon, Tanner
title: Enter Net
date: 2019
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 187
sentence: 5
flesch: 56
cache: cache/genesis-23090.pdf
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summary:
  The internet has perused every file of your being “it’s seen those search results” has sent them in pretty prissy letters to multiple organizations so they may bullseye target your back with selected sock ads: the NSA giggles at them over a cup of coffee in the morning. It saunters through the adult section of a back-alley bookstore looking for raunchy images clad in a dark leather jacket— the web it spins is not one of lies, but a very sticky predicament that stencils in the creases of a mother’s disapproving face.


id: genesis-25382
author: Hoyt, Gabrielle
title: Prayers of a Sears Carpet Technician
date: 2021
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 209
sentence: 15
flesch: 85
cache: cache/genesis-25382.pdf
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summary:
  They manifest in the shapes of treaded dirt and the deep sticky red of spilt cabernet. In my line of duty I have seen the final resting place of mistaken steps and faltered grips.


id: genesis-25368
author: Quezada, Alexa
title: Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, "L'estate"
date: 2021
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 106
sentence: 6
flesch: 77
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summary:
  Like drums, dogs bark in syncopated rounds; each echo sends their notes a bit offbeat. Cicadas drone viola harmonies; they offer constant counterpoints in flight.


id: genesis-24018
author: Shoff, Bhri'ona
title: Vex Me
date: 2020
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 108
sentence: 9
flesch: 95
cache: cache/genesis-24018.pdf
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summary:
  Then sing to me a symphony of roaring wind and rustling leaves as you lay me down in a bed of poppies and deliver my dreams. Fill my teeming mind with wings of warm stillness.


id: genesis-25378
author: Douglas, Macy
title: R̵o̵a̵d̵k̵i̵l̵l̵ Mother's Day
date: 2021
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 705
sentence: 56
flesch: 90
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summary:
  Mother's Day I cannot stop it It will happen again Tomorrow, and the next day­ Countless times, on countless roads Sitting there listening to their devastation I have never been smaller. Then I hear it: A small chitter Pop, pop, A greeting Another voice, more hesitant Calls out in the same way A third, Shriller and demanding Macy Douglas Then a silence stretches There is no reply.


id: genesis-25379
author: Léon, Tanner
title: Monsters
date: 2021
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 160
sentence: 9
flesch: 89
cache: cache/genesis-25379.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25379.txt
summary:
  They cannot grasp words— slipping by like ice cubes covered in grease, right through zombie hands with cookie-crumble fingers. I know you’re hiding more than monsters in your closet.


id: genesis-24030
author: Walter, Ayla
title: Cicada Summer
date: 2020
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 273
sentence: 18
flesch: 85
cache: cache/genesis-24030.pdf
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summary:
  A friend once told me I could probably eat poison ivy without issue. - 64 - Cicada Summers Ayla Walter One of my superpowers is that I am completely unafraid of bees; buzzing right up to my neck cause I’m wearing a flower print shirt or dripping some half-melted strawberry slushy all over my hands.


id: genesis-25442
author: Elaine, Georgey
title: Let Me Be
date: 2021
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 235
sentence: 3
flesch: 30
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summary:
  And I do not want to The hint of her veil was enough Smiling next to my father in an old photograph I used to look upon with wonder A dress worn to shackle herself to my father No, let me be your favorite shirt Wrinkled red, with the faded letters Your most worn bra Let me be wrinkled and stained Sent through countless wash cycles Let me be able to come back Let me be soft The fleece blanket draped over you I want to be a poem Something startling An image seared into minds, a pain in your chest Short, with meaning Let me be chai tea Deeply steeped, spiced with cardamom Felt in the throat Whipped cream on your lips A piece of home hot in your hands Let me be as I wish I could; something small but loved Elaine I don’t want to be white shoes Clean sneakers the high school boys are afraid to walk in I don’t want to be a decorative plate Locked behind glass where no one will ever scrape their fork over me Or chip me trying to put me in the cabinet Most of all, I would loathe to be a wedding dress Lacy white gauze worn once and hardly touched Special for a single day Before forgotten I’ve never seen my mother’s wedding dress


id: genesis-24006
author: Bryson-Price, Hannah
title: To Love Oneself. To Cope.
date: 2020
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 207
sentence: 22
flesch: 96
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summary:
  I’ve just taken a shower— power-washed my pores, silkened my skin with sugar scrub— I’m clean. Instead, it pulls my pupils to thighs that touch, a stomach that hangs, paper hair, and a troll nose.


id: genesis-25376
author: Stone, Mario
title: Grendel
date: 2021
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 159
sentence: 12
flesch: 99
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summary:
  I wrap my neck, my wrists pretty gifts to coax a pulse, a throb, an ache, anything to quell the shouting walls. Every shout snaps at me wolf on bone all fang no tongue no warm relief before the bite.


id: genesis-25408
author: Alcala, Joseph; Kalt, Jordan; Soderling, Trenna
title: Letter from the Editors
date: 2021
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 231
sentence: 12
flesch: 63
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summary:
  genesis has seen much transformation this year as well, with a new editorial staff and managing editor team taking over the reigns. All these pieces reflect the thoughtfulness required to contend with contemporary issues and offer a light to help guide us into the new decade.


id: genesis-25436
author: Léon, Tanner
title: God Gave Me a Lighter (Best of)
date: 2021
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 255
sentence: 19
flesch: 93
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summary:
  Punk night at Melody Inn. They crossed my throat into my chest like holy water on a parched man’s lips.


id: genesis-25321
author: Lauderbach, Ron
title: They're Building a House Next Door
date: 2021
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 160
sentence: 7
flesch: 83
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summary:
  They're Building a House Next Door Ron Lauderbach Clay tiles on weathered rafters weeks after delivery look weary, like the plumber’s countenance as he carries out a shiny sink, the wrong model, and drops it into his truck-bed. Their boss jabs his finger into the chest of some guy who’s holding a big bucket of paint and I think about Jim Rhoads, the meanest foreman I’ve ever known, who years ago had me in tears before draping his arm around my shoulders and saying, Don’t worry kid, this place may get built in spite of us.


id: genesis-24008
author: Marquam, Nathan
title: Apology: masculinity: Best of
date: 2020
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 185
sentence: 10
flesch: 86
cache: cache/genesis-24008.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-24008.txt
summary:
  - 23 - Consecrated Restraint Emily Lemke Colored pencil, watercolor paint, watercolor pencil, gold leaf, 12 x 20 it hits my giggle with a shovel & churns the sound into mud & gravel. it cracks my tear ducts like beer bottles, lets them drip onto the floor.


id: genesis-26958
author: Hand, Siren
title: Birdwatching (best of)
date: 2023
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 346
sentence: 18
flesch: 78
cache: cache/genesis-26958.pdf
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summary:
  Also 11:37 (Local time): four adult female finches, seven Adult male sparrows, three adult male starlings (all) dig at the ground (Keypad 8), scramble for the yield of another's destruction. Seed spills from the feeder (Keypad 5 to Keypad 8).


id: genesis-25386
author: Pretorius, Olivia
title: Walking through Target on a Tuesday Afternoon
date: 2021
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 258
sentence: 16
flesch: 84
cache: cache/genesis-25386.pdf
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summary:
  - 28 - Olivia Pretorius Walking Through Target on a Tuesday Afternoon Mothers push red plastic carts containing milk, strawberries, and young screaming children in the grocery loop, yet I can’t find the eggs. Did you know grocery stores are designed to be inconvenient?


id: genesis-22985
author: Schaefer, Mercedez
title: Hello? God, It's Me, Mercedez
date: 2019
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1885
sentence: 144
flesch: 89
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summary:
  genesisSpring2016.pdf genesis spring 2016 13 When my dog is sick, I regret not being clos- er to Jesus. The way I see it, there’s starvation, homelessness, disease, terrorism, and genocide all over the world, so you have to be pretty damned tight with Jesus if you want help when your dog - teen-year-old kid who walked the halls with me every day went to bed and never woke up.


id: genesis-25377
author: Pretorius, Olivia
title: Latina Uprooted
date: 2021
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 214
sentence: 15
flesch: 87
cache: cache/genesis-25377.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25377.txt
summary:
  In red states, speaking Spanish is often met with sideways glances, hushed conversations, and uttering “immigrant” like it’s stained. All I could say to her was te amo abuelita, buenas noches.


id: genesis-24010
author: Coffman-Mackey, Elizabeth
title: Insomniatic
date: 2020
pages: 12
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3648
sentence: 258
flesch: 93
cache: cache/genesis-24010.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-24010.txt
summary:
  They say some teenagers from Ishpeming - 29 - Elizabeth Coffman-Mackey went in there last year, and one of them went missing the next week.” “I didn’t hear that,” Meagan said. “The kids at youth group say it’s haunted, and no one’s been in there for years.


id: genesis-26181
author: Coy, Chloe
title: 雪花 的 故事 - SNOW FLOWER’S STORY
date: 2022
pages: 9
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3010
sentence: 187
flesch: 76
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txt: txt/genesis-26181.txt
summary:
  As people of color, Asians can relate to how other non-White people experience White, American hegemony. Gulliver does this with the Yahoos, and Asian Americans have (and still do) perpetuate social injustice with anti-Black racism.


id: genesis-25367
author: Carson, Ian
title: A Case Study on Love
date: 2021
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 249
sentence: 8
flesch: 53
cache: cache/genesis-25367.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25367.txt
summary:
  Further research suggests that our similarities bring us together, and yet every difference I find piques my curiosity and invites me in for further examination. The present study seeks to examine the hypothesis that we are made for each other; a lack of prior research on this topic indicates replication will be required.


id: genesis-24024
author: Couch, Shannon
title: As Robins Do
date: 2020
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 228
sentence: 10
flesch: 87
cache: cache/genesis-24024.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-24024.txt
summary:
  A home at the foot of mountain majesty, and now I'm lost in a hue that holds me tighter than the tug of Jupiter. As Robins Do Shannon Couch I found you, in the violet heart of summer, rust and scoria.


id: genesis-25429
author: Schaible, Bryttney
title: Hers
date: 2021
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 287
sentence: 17
flesch: 86
cache: cache/genesis-25429.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25429.txt
summary:
  Dreams will deflate with the grace of popped party balloons, and possibilities will meet their limits. Tea parties will be cancelled, and all the cakes from here on out will be diet.


id: genesis-25384
author: Ellison, Lindsey
title: She Stands Proud with Flowers and Stem Between her Legs
date: 2021
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 217
sentence: 10
flesch: 86
cache: cache/genesis-25384.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25384.txt
summary:
  Blade: tiny, thin, sharp like the Elizabeth Taylor portrait she has hanging in her bathroom staring with sapphire eyes and a pink, half-moon smile. - 7 - Lindsey Ellison Tall with dark hair like ants crawling to the motion of static cable- riding the freeway up and down her limbs, she stands one leg over the tub and is an exterminator with razor.


id: genesis-25435
author: Weiss, Madison
title: Chicken Paprikash
date: 2021
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 164
sentence: 8
flesch: 86
cache: cache/genesis-25435.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25435.txt
summary:
  38 Chicken Paprikash Madison Weiss This is my people’s last rite of passage. They didn’t die in German camps for me to not master this recipe.


id: genesis-25444
author: Farr, Mason
title: Sacrament
date: 2021
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 116
sentence: 6
flesch: 81
cache: cache/genesis-25444.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25444.txt
summary:
  Sinewy hairs coated your face, since you stopped shaving, Hiding the popped vessels, and lagan eyes trapped in the sunken vessel of you surrounding a mouth with lips wetted by the nectar of the gods. The frail and gruff sacrificial Billy goat, Dying, so the rest of us can live.


id: genesis-24021
author: Welter, Lauren
title: Vagary
date: 2020
pages: 8
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2430
sentence: 144
flesch: 89
cache: cache/genesis-24021.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-24021.txt
summary:
  - 47 - Vagary Lauren Welter From her desk close to the window, Emili could see the edge of the world. She had been teaching geography for twenty minutes now, but Emili’s mind had drifted.


id: genesis-26194
author: McCollum, Corlan
title: The Home Front
date: 2022
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 509
sentence: 30
flesch: 82
cache: cache/genesis-26194.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-26194.txt
summary:
  Except, perhaps, for faux fur coats, which they had been reunited with, and will be forever because nobody wants pink frills or faux fur. Not all stories are tragic. The chairs and coat split at a garage sale, the coat traveling south to West Baden and the chairs moving to Lebanon.


id: genesis-25320
author: Elaine, Georgey
title: Support Group Share, September 2020
date: 2021
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 109
sentence: 9
flesch: 87
cache: cache/genesis-25320.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25320.txt
summary:
  Forever scraping my fingertips over shiny bits of gemstone and silver; jewelry, jewels, and pants. In my dreams my younger siblings help me pack scraps of paper into plastic shopping bags.


id: genesis-24017
author: Walter, Alya
title: The Quantum Mechanist
date: 2020
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 466
sentence: 28
flesch: 82
cache: cache/genesis-24017.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-24017.txt
summary:
  The quantum mechanist swans into campus bar ten minutes till last call, and orders straight tequila from a Klein bottle. The quantum mechanist sails on un-lauded coattails, and never forgets a figure.


id: genesis-26187
author: Price, Caitlin
title: Fatalist Ramblings
date: 2022
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 415
sentence: 26
flesch: 84
cache: cache/genesis-26187.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-26187.txt
summary:
  Now is different than the solitude like mid-days at dive bars. Polyvinyl chloride mimicked curves I’d see in long car ride, car seat daydreams.


id: genesis-25381
author: Christoff, Claire
title: Offal Sick
date: 2021
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 177
sentence: 10
flesch: 81
cache: cache/genesis-25381.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25381.txt
summary:
  In another dream, I pinch the breading from a piece of Kentucky Fried Chicken, telling myself I’m being virtuous. I carry a plastic bag of roast beef, pooling in its own fluids, through the grocery aisles of the mind.


id: genesis-25316
author: Hopf, Abigail
title: Huntingburg: Summer, 2007
date: 2021
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 315
sentence: 13
flesch: 78
cache: cache/genesis-25316.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25316.txt
summary:
  Those late August afternoons that slipped by like syrup —skin still sun-kissed, kids still laughing in their bus rows because school hadn’t yet sunk into their bones. We’d sit and watch as he tamed the flames, fire tongues lapping the air and softening into ghosts of smoke, turning from roaring beast to pup licking marshmallows golden brown.


id: genesis-25322
author: Kriese, Kaylee
title: Trailer Trash: Track One
date: 2021
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 167
sentence: 14
flesch: 83
cache: cache/genesis-25322.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25322.txt
summary:
  Gravel roads writhing with scraped knees & spinning bicycle tires. Fearless mud pie makers, with perpetually dirty fingernails.


id: genesis-25426
author: Spratt, Julia
title: Marty
date: 2021
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 985
sentence: 46
flesch: 79
cache: cache/genesis-25426.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25426.txt
summary:
  The Focus Last month I married a man who drives a 2013 Ford Focus. I imagine my tiny Chevy Spark, baby blue and smelling like thunderstorms.


id: genesis-25317
author: Marquam, Nathan
title: Shame and Queer Desire: A Storied Reading Lady Audley's Secret (best of)
date: 2021
pages: 9
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3613
sentence: 201
flesch: 83
cache: cache/genesis-25317.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25317.txt
summary:
  I want college-age Robert and George - 40 - Shame and Queer Desire: A Storied Reading of Lady Audley's Secret laughing in the autumn leaves, Robert pulling George in by the scarf to kiss him on the lips. And yet, there’s something unusually compelling about Robert and George.


id: genesis-25433
author: Weiss, Madison
title: At the Top of Kingsbury Grade
date: 2021
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 75
sentence: 3
flesch: 61
cache: cache/genesis-25433.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25433.txt
summary:
  47 At the Top of Kingsbury Grade Madison Weiss The legend goes like this: an anchor dislodged from granite rock turns Arthurian child into mermaid


id: genesis-25432
author: Dile, Evan
title: The Unkindness of the Raven
date: 2021
pages: 7
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2999
sentence: 243
flesch: 91
cache: cache/genesis-25432.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25432.txt
summary:
  22 The Unkindness of the Raven Evan Dile Nevar Windsor approached the coffee shop, stopping just in front of the glass doors. Nevar waved over to him and made eye contact.


id: genesis-25380
author: Christoff, Claire
title: Note to a Dead Girl
date: 2021
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 84
sentence: 4
flesch: 72
cache: cache/genesis-25380.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25380.txt
summary:
  - 27 - Claire Cristoff You planted the tree in my front yard— sugar or paperbark, it doesn’t matter— with gnarled roots and boughs for squirrels and snowfall. I never knew you, but I picture you now, parting the earth with careful fingers, long hair obscuring your face, soft young breasts already gravid with rot.


id: genesis-25319
author: Bryson-Price, Hannah
title: Nomenclature
date: 2021
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 253
sentence: 19
flesch: 88
cache: cache/genesis-25319.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25319.txt
summary:
  I stand on returning flashes of light to storm clouds leaving remnants of energy in my skin called stretch marks. Funny how ears mistake my footsteps for the earth trembling beneath me; for thunder shattering the sky after lightning electrocutes the ground


id: genesis-27314
author: Whatley, Edward
title: Idyllic Pasts Nostalgic Futures
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 20
sentence: 1
flesch: 55
cache: cache/genesis-27314.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27314.txt
summary:
  Idyllic Pasts Nostalgic Futures Edward Whatley Pen and ink with digital coloring in Clip Studio Paint; 13 x 10 - 92 -


id: genesis-26199
author: Walter, Ayla
title: Low Rent Ghost Story
date: 2022
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 708
sentence: 30
flesch: 80
cache: cache/genesis-26199.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-26199.txt
summary:
  I don’t believe in ghosts, that should be clear, if I did perhaps I would not invite and love Marcelle into my home as much as I do, and I do. So I don’t believe in ghosts but not so much that I’m interested in hearing about how your second cousin or your best friend’s friend had something totally impossible and spooky happen to them and they saw a ghost with their own eyes just so you can try to prove it to me or expect me to try and disprove it 32 back to you– like most people, I’m not that interested in proof.


id: genesis-26966
author: McCollum, Corlan
title: There Were 87 Work-Related Real Estate Deaths in 2019
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 550
sentence: 25
flesch: 89
cache: cache/genesis-26966.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-26966.txt
summary:
  The pony follows you out, expecting more treats, but not being too forward about it. Then you go and clean up the blood and hoof prints just in time for the buyers to arrive, and the first thing they do is comment on how they’ll have to get a rug for the living room.


id: genesis-26962
author: McIntire, Thalia
title: Fungal Body
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 107
sentence: 7
flesch: 90
cache: cache/genesis-26962.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-26962.txt
summary:
  Let any eyes that lay upon me be glazed over with gray lichen in punishment for their crime. I could be a home for so much life, the spores in my lungs that wheeze when I speak, the worms boring holes beyond my eye sockets, the rats and rodents carving out a den in my abdomen.


id: genesis-26197
author: Scott, Katherine
title: Fog Like a Veil
date: 2022
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 131
sentence: 6
flesch: 76
cache: cache/genesis-26197.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-26197.txt
summary:
  One hand clenches the wheel, the other a procession of coffee cups and sleet presses kisses to her windscreen. While the driver's baby blues contract and contort, attempting to wheedle road dashes through a film of lace cascading over night.


id: genesis-27018
author: Spurling, Alex
title: Ode to Gray Men
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 87
sentence: 2
flesch: 60
cache: cache/genesis-27018.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27018.txt
summary:
  Ode to Gray Men Alex Spurling I’m no spring chicken inside I feel rowdy young and tempestuous I am tawdry and bold never mild smoking in corners flying by the seams violating étiquettes The Trumpeting Troubadour! a hot iron skillet, a grease fire hoppin’ out of the pan The residue of boyhood– powder kegs with short fuses Mighty Roar! mighty squeak! No longer, nimble in the feet No longer, sound in the mind I’m still a grease fire and I’m no spring chicken. - 68 -


id: genesis-27073
author: Ivey, Mariah
title: Rest and Fire, Black Child
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 181
sentence: 3
flesch: 32
cache: cache/genesis-27073.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27073.txt
summary:
  15 Rest and Fire, Black Child Mariah Ivey may you dance as if the fire is beneath you chassé your fears into plied position scorching pavements with radical affirmation promising to always be kind to yourself may you burn down broken systems tethered to Black tears Emmett Tills and ticking timebombs, only to ring-shout your way into safe spaces of emotional release may you awaken without apology on your tongue but joy beneath your wings laughing as if healing and resistance share one body may you remember your body—not as America’s sacrificial lamb but as a harmonious vessel of ancestral hymns singing songs of sweetness and soul liberation will come from a Black thing may your palms, as they are, blessed with golden warmth and grandmama’s prayers, hold vinyl record memories worth replaying on Sundays may your days feel a lot warmer there not as an escape of your reality but an extension of the reimagined ease belongs to you ease has always belonged to you rest and fire. rest and fire, Black child.


id: genesis-25310
author: Childs, Julieanna
title: La Rosa
date: 2021
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 997
sentence: 62
flesch: 85
cache: cache/genesis-25310.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25310.txt
summary:
  He was honored to support Adriana marrying her high-school sweetheart, just like he and Sofia had been. He thinks back to those years of hard work, building the family’s construction business from nothing.


id: genesis-27074
author: Marquam, Nathan
title: Autopsy
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 63
sentence: 3
flesch: 92
cache: cache/genesis-27074.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27074.txt
summary:
  Found tire swings and skipping stones. 16 Autopsy Nathan Marquam I’ve searched for something good in you, like apple carved down to the bone.


id: genesis-25438
author: Couch, Shannon
title: The Hoosier Dome
date: 2021
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 110
sentence: 7
flesch: 70
cache: cache/genesis-25438.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25438.txt
summary:
  Forever unrepaired, chosen to keep, as the preservation of memory outweighs structural integrity. Bassline pulse-drive and mechanical starry sky – This shroud is a battle cry, power incarnate.


id: genesis-27030
author: Taylor, Juan
title: White English: A Satire
date: 2023
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1128
sentence: 58
flesch: 74
cache: cache/genesis-27030.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27030.txt
summary:
  As the nation grew, White English began to diversify, but these variations are minor in comparison to the major differences between White English and Regular English. It would take a novel to discuss these distinctions sufficiently, but I will point out a few of the differences between White English and Regular English.


id: genesis-27267
author: Kucaj, Shannon; Simmons, Monica
title: Letter from the Editors
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 376
sentence: 16
flesch: 65
cache: cache/genesis-27267.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27267.txt
summary:
  We would like to give special thanks to the Ray Bradbury Center team for collaborating with us on this project. This collection of work reflects this idea.


id: genesis-25365
author: White, Michaela
title: trauma. (Best of Creative Nonfiction)
date: 2021
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 372
sentence: 20
flesch: 89
cache: cache/genesis-25365.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25365.txt
summary:
  I wanted to stop sleeping with my bedroom door locked, to stop locking my car over and over and over while I was getting gas or walking into the store, into school. Michaela White trauma.


id: genesis-27091
author: McCollum, Corlan
title: Combat Sport
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 204
sentence: 14
flesch: 86
cache: cache/genesis-27091.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27091.txt
summary:
  Shoulder width apart, find your balance, bend your knees, hear fence! Arm up, blade straight out, foot forward, classic, obvious prise de fer, so they stop advancing and cut across your vest.


id: genesis-24000
author: Marquam, Nathan
title: (W)hole in My Head
date: 2020
pages: 11
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3520
sentence: 228
flesch: 85
cache: cache/genesis-24000.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-24000.txt
summary:
  After months of trying to control Phineas’s erratic behavior, Dr. Harlow places a gun to Phineas’s head in a moment of desperation. It cuts to Phineas and Dr. Harlow standing outside, and Phineas explaining to Dr. Harlow how to hold the gun, how to shoot straight.


id: genesis-23998
author: Alcala, Joseph; Kalt, Jordan; Soderling, Trenna
title: Letter from the Editors
date: 2020
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 214
sentence: 10
flesch: 62
cache: cache/genesis-23998.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-23998.txt
summary:
  Several pieces included in this issue such as The Return, A Hunger Artist, Under My Wing, and “Calavera...Calavera…” see artists pulling inspiration from well-known pieces of art to provide unique contexts for their own realities. Fostering artistic community is a role genesis has filled for nearly fifty years, sharing student work and hosting events that bring artists, readers, and editors together in their love of art.


id: genesis-27086
author: McCollum, Corlan
title: Prayer of the Unrequited Lover
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 390
sentence: 21
flesch: 89
cache: cache/genesis-27086.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27086.txt
summary:
  I know that we go together, and the world may pull us apart or say otherwise, but Lord, there is nothing more pure or divine than love, and I love you, and the best laid plans of men could not keep this love down. God help our souls.


id: genesis-27094
author: Harrell, Danielle
title: Where Was Jesus? (best of)
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 27
sentence: 3
flesch: 75
cache: cache/genesis-27094.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27094.txt
summary:
  Where Was Jesus? Danielle Harrell Marker and colored pencil; 22”x30” Modernized illustration from the original Chi Rho page from the Book of Kells. 47


id: genesis-26992
author: Hand, Siren
title: Safety Brief
date: 2023
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 343
sentence: 25
flesch: 88
cache: cache/genesis-26992.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-26992.txt
summary:
  I saw it in American History X and didn’t know that cruelty could happen in real life until the news showed it. Make sure protestors with wheelchairs and walkers are not being harassed or targeted; The march pace reaches fever pitch and the bullhorn, chanting pulls away from 2.5 miles an hour.


id: genesis-27100
author: Cassetty, Christopher
title: December
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 289
sentence: 7
flesch: 59
cache: cache/genesis-27100.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27100.txt
summary:
  53 December Christopher Cassetty Splendour oft’ is rare upon the Winter morn— where hangs on low our Eve’s deceitful fruit, and tears away the pall o’ gloaming skies the moonly breast o’ ensorcelled Selene, and thus am I remember’d well the dreary night so long ago; July warmth burn’d the midnight air, and wherefore blazed the Moon to mock the dousèd Sun by sea repressèd, doth she wither embers unto Nyx’s bleak December. ‘Fore, her ash, the lachryma-dust of flames, scorching Earth from the gelid burns o’ melancholy gaze o’ Moon, was once the steam o’ River Lethe’s breath, borne to Earth to warm our Nyx’s bleak December.


id: genesis-26968
author: Fecteau, Emma Yuan
title: Fantasyland (best of)
date: 2023
pages: 8
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3176
sentence: 259
flesch: 89
cache: cache/genesis-26968.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-26968.txt
summary:
  Jia clung to the photograph and traced the outline of Lianna with her fingers. Fantasyland Emma Yuan Fecteau “Jia raised her metal fans and a windstorm of flames erupted around Lord Ren, engulfing the once proud northern invader.


id: genesis-27076
author: Cassetty, Christopher
title: Unnamed Poem 6
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 183
sentence: 5
flesch: 69
cache: cache/genesis-27076.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27076.txt
summary:
  I lay atop my bed with clouds for eyes; these wretched liquid tears beseem me well, for nightly days and daily nights have come to be ubiquitous so with these storms. The moon aflame the night wants too to die, a flutter ‘twixt the clouds o’ dreary hell; she weeps, and tears besmirch the whilom ‘drum arras o’ sky; her flames ignite the swarm of thoughts–of thoughts of which there was a dearth– to die, to take the hand o’ moon and then— ignite, the round o’ chamber, make my end, to call my days forgone, by means of scend, and was it well, decided I, the perfect Night to … [sic, page torn]


id: genesis-26973
author: Justice, Sage
title: Questions for the Sculptor
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 116
sentence: 7
flesch: 81
cache: cache/genesis-26973.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-26973.txt
summary:
  Skeletons cutting out Valentines with safety scissors Who are the ghosts A: City rats scouring empty nests in human skulls retching bile and tar Threadbare hands caked with clay


id: genesis-25439
author: Hunsinger, Zoey
title: Hummingbird Eulogy
date: 2021
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 134
sentence: 11
flesch: 90
cache: cache/genesis-25439.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25439.txt
summary:
  9 Hummingbird Eulogy Zoey Hunsinger A flower-kisser collapsed on the ground. But I watched him every day from the cheap-seats of university grass.


id: genesis-27080
author: Cassetty, Christopher
title: A Midnight Heartbreak
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 219
sentence: 5
flesch: 64
cache: cache/genesis-27080.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27080.txt
summary:
  When only grown to don my fur, enthrall’d by all the Moon’s allure, with teeth agleam from moonlit dreams—the ichor crying from my teeth— as well, the knell before the sheep, my droning groan for more to eat, beware the air so moon-kiss’d cold, … as werewolf dare I favour wolf. To cry, and die, am I so tempt’, as dreams appease the Night’s contempt, and wherefore werewolves turn to howl, whereby the nightly Moon befouls the midnight grid of blazing stars, our twain, ill-fated, broken hearts, as werewolves share parts man and wolf, and rarely dares feel woe the wolf.


id: genesis-26987
author: Freestone, Abigail; Hanquier, Zoe; Hawkins, Kelsey
title: Letter from the Editors
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 202
sentence: 12
flesch: 64
cache: cache/genesis-26987.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-26987.txt
summary:
  We hope it reflects the experiences of current IUPUI students while acknowledging the history and legacy of past genesis issues. IUPUI students have been contributing to and creating our magazine since 1972.


id: genesis-27274
author: Wilson, Ashley
title: Self-portrait in a thunderstorm
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 149
sentence: 10
flesch: 82
cache: cache/genesis-27274.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27274.txt
summary:
  I watch in wonder as lightning strikes, A mere mile from where I stand, Ensconced by the thin glass of my balcony - 11 - Self-portrait in a thunderstorm Ashley Wilson


id: genesis-24031
author: Koch, Briesa
title: A Boy
date: 2020
pages: 9
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3010
sentence: 212
flesch: 86
cache: cache/genesis-24031.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-24031.txt
summary:
  That Charlotte seduced Bastian and was living off what he could provide for her. None of us ever really saw them save for when Bastian left for work or we brought our kids over to their house for Charlotte to babysit.


id: genesis-27038
author: Johnson, David Brent
title: Burning Butterflies
date: 2023
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1090
sentence: 71
flesch: 90
cache: cache/genesis-27038.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27038.txt
summary:
  I told this to you on our first date, in the dim place we called Coffeehouse Hell, with windmill fans and huge potted plants that hung just a few feet above our table. Through your window I watch a flock of black birds in the grey sky, swirl- ing like ashes in the wind.


id: genesis-26999
author: Scott, Kat
title: Moon Mother
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 111
sentence: 10
flesch: 85
cache: cache/genesis-26999.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-26999.txt
summary:
  Lifting to pour sticky jam in divots, tart and overwhelming. With a face, so faithfully dusted concealing acne craters, the voice of mother through still air reminds you to floss.


id: genesis-24032
author: McIntire, Trent
title: Bloom
date: 2020
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 83
sentence: 1
flesch: 20
cache: cache/genesis-24032.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-24032.txt
summary:
  - 61 - Bloom Trent McIntire Leaves and petals bloom, hidden in the crack of a burning desert, outstretched on the peak of a broken mountain, digging between boulders and a ravine wall, choking on a 5th story balcony, where no other seed would dare fall, but where the soil is rich and black, and invites intrusions, where worms burrow, bees float beside birds who sing and saturate the air with life, the beauty of a single blossom drowns in a sea of its kin.


id: genesis-27029
author: Justice, Sage
title: My Partner Shaves My Head in the Bathtub
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 164
sentence: 8
flesch: 78
cache: cache/genesis-27029.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27029.txt
summary:
  My Partner Shaves My Head in the Bathtub Sage Justice and the porcelain soothes my restive fingers; wandering flurries of hair drift around me like dove feathers. He steadies himself on me, hand on my shoulder, blows hair from the clipper blade.


id: genesis-27007
author: Shannon, Kaiti
title: Devils in the Livery of Heaven
date: 2023
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2514
sentence: 101
flesch: 63
cache: cache/genesis-27007.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27007.txt
summary:
  As slaves in America, Harriett Jacobs and Frederick Douglass both experienced and understood how religion was used—specifically in the South. In their memoirs, they examine the hypocrisy of religion being used to moralize treatment and excuse atrocities done towards slaves.


id: genesis-27298
author: Golder, LyNae
title: The Lucky Candidate
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 466
sentence: 28
flesch: 90
cache: cache/genesis-27298.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27298.txt
summary:
  - 51 - The Lucky Candidate LyNae Golder Listen, honey, I want you to understand how lucky you are to be here. You’ll draw people in, and when they see you—your eyes and your lips and your body— they’ll want to trust us.


id: genesis-27301
author: Aukerman, Jason
title: Introduction to the Bradbury-Inspired Anthology
date: 2023
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 674
sentence: 29
flesch: 71
cache: cache/genesis-27301.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27301.txt
summary:
  Bradbury often cautioned aspiring writers against being too ambitious by writing novels. ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury left many things behind when he passed away in June of 2012—his stories, poems, films, plays, work with Disney, and his relentless advocacy for freedom of imagination, space exploration, libraries, and literacy.


id: genesis-26980
author: Hand, Siren
title: D.C. al Coda
date: 2023
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 550
sentence: 30
flesch: 83
cache: cache/genesis-26980.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-26980.txt
summary:
  D.C. al Coda The thread from his Flag shrinks from the heat coiling tightly blackening into crumbling rubbing into good-as-new into January 7th, into some refrain of a spotless nation put back as it was supposed to be— no one ever the wiser. This cloth is voice, and presence, and power.


id: genesis-27015
author: Hand, Siren
title: Better Fences (best of)
date: 2023
pages: 8
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3616
sentence: 267
flesch: 97
cache: cache/genesis-27015.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27015.txt
summary:
  Even thinking about it now, I only really saw Miss Valentine frown a handful of times: one when she told me not to worry about what happened to Bitty, that she would be okay, and another was this very time when Zion asked for food. After my mother drove to work, her vacant space left a perfect half- court for Zion and me to play basketball in, until she got home in time to start dinner.


id: genesis-26995
author: Justice, Sage
title: Midwestern Gothic Road Trip
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 132
sentence: 5
flesch: 78
cache: cache/genesis-26995.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-26995.txt
summary:
  It’s antler shedding season– ribbons of red flesh hang from a buck’s head as it darts from fields to quaking aspens whose eyes haunt the cloven imprints left in the earth. Midwestern Gothic Road Trip Sage Justice Frost clings to the corn fields that line roads with no painted lines, no names, just numbers like prisoner 9860 trudging through solemn dirt.


id: genesis-27090
author: Marquam, Nathan
title: Surrogate father sestina (best of)
date: 2023
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 343
sentence: 15
flesch: 78
cache: cache/genesis-27090.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27090.txt
summary:
  I watched as they grew bored of my damage, but they were alive, a line between me and the absence of me, chain wallet fathers, bar stool fathers, fathers I killed while they were still alive. He tasted of salt, morning breath, the absence of death, of fathers, the word no.


id: genesis-26972
author: Justice, Sage
title: Poppy
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 136
sentence: 8
flesch: 85
cache: cache/genesis-26972.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-26972.txt
summary:
  A corpse woven in silk waits to be plucked and hand-delivered into the arms of loving Death, mouth slacked, slivered eyes, the sweetness of rot not yet settled in. The Worker of the Woods hammers away in early morning, nails his ghost to every tree.


id: genesis-27111
author: Kucaj, Shannon; Simmons, Monica
title: Letter from the Editors
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 239
sentence: 14
flesch: 67
cache: cache/genesis-27111.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27111.txt
summary:
  Shannon Kucaj & Monica Simmons Managing Editors We would like to thank our editors for their thoughtful contributions and hard work.


id: genesis-27285
author: Anweiler, Truitt
title: Dirt Town
date: 2023
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1670
sentence: 117
flesch: 89
cache: cache/genesis-27285.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27285.txt
summary:
  This, this mound of dirt, was our new world. They could have dug up a new mansion to live in, and we still would have been more enthralled by the mound of dirt they left in our yard.


id: genesis-27071
author: Spurling, Alex T.
title: Evening Hunger
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 122
sentence: 2
flesch: 18
cache: cache/genesis-27071.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27071.txt
summary:
  In my purview, a livestock trailer ocular slits for ventilation, a dozen waving snouts, sun rays on bead-like eyes the stench of the farm it permeates grass fed, free-roam makes no difference Billboards, pictorial images, of perspiring patties and salivating mouths unshakable adverts Hindus venerate the cow, the Jains as well a divine symbol dung, urine, and milk, ghee and curd, an all-purpose remedy panchagavya the heifer is generous Discomfort, and the eyes of privilege break contact, for their own sake meditation is disbanded by impatient horns and coarse expletives And, sympathetic hands, raise a perspiring patty to my salivating mouth, and nothing is sacred 8 Evening Hunger Alex T. Spurling In traffic, thrown into the thralls of hunger.


id: genesis-27093
author: Jennings, Kyle
title: Sweaty Hands and Red Balls (best of)
date: 2023
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1676
sentence: 128
flesch: 89
cache: cache/genesis-27093.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27093.txt
summary:
  Within seconds, balls were flying, and team members were dropping but at a slower rate than the other team. Callouts on what other players should do were floating around us.


id: genesis-27289
author: Kile, Kim
title: What I Used to Love
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 340
sentence: 21
flesch: 91
cache: cache/genesis-27289.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27289.txt
summary:
  For Baby Theo, forever our first - 36 - What I Used to Love Kim Kile Were you there, Theo, when I got the call from your mama?


id: genesis-28217
author: Evans, Bailey; Witham, Eli
title: Letter from the Editors
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 221
sentence: 13
flesch: 70
cache: cache/genesis-28217.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28217.txt
summary:
  Thank you to Sarah Layden, our faculty advisor, for all of her guidance and support as we learned how to step into the role of Man- aging Editors. Alongside pieces of personal reflection are other works that center on feelings of nostalgia for what once was, and hope for what is possible in the future.


id: genesis-27025
author: Pickering, Lauren
title: A Dream of Frog and Toad
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 26
sentence: 1
flesch: 60
cache: cache/genesis-27025.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27025.txt
summary:
  A Dream of Frog and Toad Lauren Pickering Fabric, polyester fill, embroidery thread, buttons, plastic greenery, copper wire, cardboard, and LED lights, 25x51 300 DPI - 75 -


id: genesis-27306
author: Kuzniar, Tim W.
title: The Halloween Tree
date: 2023
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 22
sentence: 1
flesch: 80
cache: cache/genesis-27306.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27306.txt
summary:
  The Halloween Tree Tim W. Kuzniar Digital tryptich Left - 17 x 36 Center - 9 x 24 Right - 36 x 17 - 76 - - 77 -


id: genesis-27300
author: Russell, Ava
title: When the Train Crashes
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 556
sentence: 23
flesch: 82
cache: cache/genesis-27300.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27300.txt
summary:
  You pretend you’re a writer, but you struggled through this simple sentence word by word, letter by letter, struggled to combine your abstract, nonsensical thoughts into something that’s barely legible. After all, if everyone was one-of-a-kind, if you were one-of-a-kind, no one else in the world would be interested in what you have to say; and you have so many things to say, so many important things about the world, and other people, and even yourself.


id: genesis-27016
author: Stewart, Jacob
title: An Appalachian Morning
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 102
sentence: 2
flesch: 54
cache: cache/genesis-27016.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27016.txt
summary:
  An Appalachian Morning Jacob Stewart A fragrant fog, a mountain mist Closely clings to springtime air Upon the scene, great evergreens Densely hug the landscape there Down the path, a bubbling brook Is hidden, save to those who seek It sings a psalm with current calm Praising, without words, so sweet And in the drear, a distant sound Grazing steer call, long and plain While deer scurry, without hurry Past the patter of the rain Peace protrudes the place not touched Long by the infirm hand of man Where one can see God’s majesty Smoky peak to creek bed sand - 66 -


id: genesis-27013
author: Casey, David
title: The Abandoned, the Alone, and the Left Behind (best of)
date: 2023
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1750
sentence: 99
flesch: 82
cache: cache/genesis-27013.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27013.txt
summary:
  There, the four-lane road sprouts a fifth off to the right, so that cars can slow down before turning into the entrance. More often, though, and ever since I can remember, I’ve been most intrigued by cars left abandoned on the side of the road.


id: genesis-26989
author: Freestone, Abigail; Hanquier, Zoe; Hawkins, Kelsey
title: History of genesis
date: 2023
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
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summary:
  genesis - 6 - hiStory of When we became editors, we entered the den of genesis – a small, windowless room on the 3rd floor of Cavanaugh Hall, with boxes of old issues stacked precariously along the walls. Early issues held book reviews and philosophical essays alongside memoirs and several of the genres we still publish today.


id: genesis-27302
author: Orwig, Jordan
title: Monster Sale
date: 2023
pages: 9
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3613
sentence: 278
flesch: 90
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summary:
  “Mr. Nettle,” Ellen said, “what’s this?” Nettle drew up short. Monster Sale Jordan Orwig Artemis Nettle stood amongst the wisps and willows of the night, turn- ing a small piece of bone-white cardstock over in his fingers.


id: genesis-27024
author: Justice, Sage
title: Lavender Boy
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 229
sentence: 15
flesch: 93
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summary:
  Lavender Boy Sage Justice I met a trapeze artist named Eve when the full moon rose deep in the navy sky, orange clouds kissing Lake Michigan. Circles of tamed fire twirled in the air and we danced, feet traipsing one in front of the other until we tumbled to the dark dewy grass.


id: genesis-25385
author: Alberda, Erin
title: Today I Prayed a Prayer of Gratitude
date: 2021
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 142
sentence: 8
flesch: 88
cache: cache/genesis-25385.pdf
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summary:
  Thank you, Lord, for city sidewalks, with gum spots and steaming grates. - 24 - Erin Alberda Gulping deeply, wriggling out of my sweater of pride, the one that I have woven each morning, I opened my lips and called each little beauty around me by its name.


id: genesis-27079
author: Stone, Mario
title: Munkhi
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 160
sentence: 4
flesch: 69
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summary:
  He’s crawling through my mouth (Again) he’s fingering my eyes, I’ve let him come alive (AGAIN his howl no surprise ‘fore twilight throes, the victim moans unto My jungle groans her wet oasis, her featherdove hair, Her skin the moon so fair So rare so soft her lips We’re crawling through the bliss Her mourning seeks red tongues Her eyes so wet to lies— We come for sin Death welcoming The pleasure Your demise 21 Munkhi Mario Stone Sometimes I feed him daily though I try to not at all, and despite the bite, his empty eyes, I heed his monkey call.


id: genesis-27277
author: Harrell, Danielle
title: The Confessional
date: 2023
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 216
sentence: 13
flesch: 86
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summary:
  Paper crinkles hastily as I open my scrawled list. - 15 - The Confessional Danielle Harrell My heart beat pulses through my twitching fingers, the folded paper gaining more creases in my sweaty hands.


id: genesis-27001
author: Casey, David
title: Walking Down an Evening Beach (best of)
date: 2023
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 736
sentence: 49
flesch: 90
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summary:
  [4] Sitting far above the shoreline now, I grab a fistful of sand and let it trickle upon my feet. There are more stars in the universe Than grains of sand on every beach in the world.


id: genesis-27312
author: Bollinger, Christopher James
title: Romance with Ray
date: 2023
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 946
sentence: 76
flesch: 91
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summary:
  Romance with Ray Christopher James Bollinger She stands there glowing under the Southern California sun. Drive out that morning to UCLA and see Ray Bradbury speak.


id: genesis-26988
author: Layden, Sarah
title: Note from the Advisor
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 309
sentence: 15
flesch: 64
cache: cache/genesis-26988.pdf
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summary:
  Worth it, say the student editors of genesis, who have kept this award-winning magazine in print for fifty uninterrupted years. We share our lives through the art we create, and the work in genesis tells a story about IUPUI.


id: genesis-27032
author: Yalimaiwai, Davinia
title: Green Eggs and Spam
date: 2023
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1482
sentence: 88
flesch: 81
cache: cache/genesis-27032.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27032.txt
summary:
  All we know is that it is salty, and meaty, and that it tastes good with just about anything: Spam musubi (Japanese sushi made with Spam), Spam saimin (hot soup with noodles and a slab of Spam), Spam fried rice (self-explanatory), Spam and eggs for breakfast (now on our McDonald’s Dollar Menu), Spam and cheese sandwich for lunch, and Spam and shoyu rice (white rice covered in soy sauce) for dinner. And there is always enough Spam to feed everybody thrice over.


id: genesis-27075
author: Cassetty, Christopher
title: Demeter’s Nectarine
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 206
sentence: 6
flesch: 66
cache: cache/genesis-27075.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27075.txt
summary:
  O’, blooming Nectarine, who hast fleurie a darling Orchid rose, beget thou such a rich and merry mirth for past, and too, too long has Spring reposed in fetters o’ Eleusis’ mysteries— O’, flower’d Nectarine, who hath so much allur’d the minds o’ wise, becom’st thou love-betrothed to nether-worlds, the path o’ lies that led to her demise, and comes to thee the Queen: Persephone. O’, dreary Nectarine, who will not bare her fruit this solemn year, and weeps beneath the barren skies forlorn— as will’d away the Sun Demeter’s tears from thee, for loss o’ bless’d Persephone.


id: genesis-27304
author: Carlson, Kyrsten
title: The Master in Pieces
date: 2023
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2762
sentence: 224
flesch: 89
cache: cache/genesis-27304.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27304.txt
summary:
  Inside, Mr. Oliver Hamilton stood to the side. Mr. Oliver Hamilton, not one for drinking and less for socializing, wan- dered ahead into the reconstructed gallery that was, at that moment, for his eyes only.


id: genesis-27072
author: Gross, Nicholas
title: Damn Junkies
date: 2023
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3178
sentence: 271
flesch: 96
cache: cache/genesis-27072.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27072.txt
summary:
  Mark referred to the begin- ning of rehearsal as “Johnny Time,” because it was whatever time that Johnny decided that he would come to rehearsal. “I’ll see you tomorrow for rehearsal at Johnny O’ Clock.


id: genesis-25312
author: Hall, Ashton
title: Spelunking (best of)
date: 2021
pages: 9
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3309
sentence: 349
flesch: 99
cache: cache/genesis-25312.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-25312.txt
summary:
  I’ll be waiting for you.” - 14 - Spelunking A few muscle fibers in Nomi’s shoulders relaxed. Just Nomi, curled in on herself, as small as she’d looked freshman year.


id: genesis-27039
author: Lucy, Daniel
title: Progressions
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 167
sentence: 4
flesch: 55
cache: cache/genesis-27039.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27039.txt
summary:
  I heard The morning moon without looking, Saw trees seeming flat Against the hillsides, veins In loam, august arteries, under This puckered sun, patches Of capillaries, leaves; Far away childs are making laughter, Spun slowly as though from A laughter gin; I feel The toothless path of morning Without putting out my hand To find its wind; I stand, pan the river with a look As hungry as the eyes of taxidermied Owls; I make home wherever evening settles; I make my way home hopefully. So like the old ones Held in porchswing pendulums Swinging through the precious summer nights, Striking the hours with sighs.


id: genesis-27078
author: Cassetty, Christopher
title: coruscations
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 292
sentence: 7
flesch: 64
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txt: txt/genesis-27078.txt
summary:
  He’s crawling through my mouth (Again) he’s fingering my eyes, I’ve let him come alive (AGAIN his howl no surprise ‘fore twilight throes, the victim moans unto My jungle groans her wet oasis, her featherdove hair, Her skin the moon so fair So rare so soft her lips We’re crawling through the bliss Her mourning seeks red tongues Her eyes so wet to lies— We come for sin Death welcoming The pleasure Your demise 20 coruscations Christopher Cassetty dreamt i one july of—coruscations who, when asked, would dance upon the walls and glimmer in the blood that dripped from the ceilings. dreamt i one late june of the rancid entrails of the driver of a car—spilt—across stained asphalt and wondered, “what is this to do with me?” dreamt i last night of my dreams, a coruscation, a nightmare, an overdose and an accident, and wondered if there was anything at all to be learnt from a dream.


id: genesis-27101
author: Scott, Kat
title: The Tilth of Me
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 183
sentence: 10
flesch: 90
cache: cache/genesis-27101.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27101.txt
summary:
  It seems to bend louder underfoot now, a groaning that I’ve pulled back its covers, exposed each blade to cooler air than it took to bed. That it revels in its nudity regardless of light or air or fashion.


id: genesis-27268
author: McVeigh, Kayla
title: Philanthropy
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 520
sentence: 52
flesch: 96
cache: cache/genesis-27268.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27268.txt
summary:
  It’s a drop of blood as a tax for exploiting human life. On all fours, humbled and crying as true light floods your retinas and burns your eyes.


id: genesis-27297
author: McVeigh, Kayla
title: Potato Bug (best of)
date: 2023
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 670
sentence: 65
flesch: 94
cache: cache/genesis-27297.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27297.txt
summary:
  He’s standing on my back, climbing his way to the top while I’m laboring away, box after box. There are only clumps of moss and white mushrooms that rise to my swollen ankles.


id: genesis-27313
author: Phillips, Corrine
title: To Ray
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 192
sentence: 6
flesch: 73
cache: cache/genesis-27313.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27313.txt
summary:
  And what sweetness it is to swallow such things, to taste the bitter wisp of dandelion, or arid Valley of the Kings, to dream yourself smiling on a cold October night when the air smells of cinnamon as you fly on your kite. I’ve known you in high attics where meadows did green, where spiders weave pearly webs, and Dust Witches glean— cataloging her souls like books on a shelf, imbibing their spirits to poison herself.


id: genesis-27292
author: Golder, LyNae
title: Bread and Butter
date: 2023
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 612
sentence: 51
flesch: 97
cache: cache/genesis-27292.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27292.txt
summary:
  Having napped beforehand, Nia’s wide awake to greet him. She drags her feet because she knows she’ll be up a while; she can’t go back to sleep until Zion walks in the door and she knows he’s safe.


id: genesis-27270
author: Grimes, Ben
title: Desecrating the Giants’ Corpse (best of)
date: 2023
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 630
sentence: 40
flesch: 81
cache: cache/genesis-27270.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27270.txt
summary:
  A fourth of the land that would be dubbed “Indiana” was bogs, fens, marshes, wet prairies—swamp. Yet 13,000 acres of swamp had remained unsullied in Indiana.


id: genesis-27095
author: Patrick, Lio
title: Gardeners (best of)
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 604
sentence: 41
flesch: 93
cache: cache/genesis-27095.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27095.txt
summary:
  Bucky and Alma, Jodie, Muriel, his ma and pa, and Christopher—they all gave up on the creaky, broken house, and found better places to die. He knows it by the aches in his limbs and the thrumming of thunder in time with his heartbeat.


id: genesis-27008
author: Justice, Sage
title: Ode to Healer, Indianapolis
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 168
sentence: 10
flesch: 79
cache: cache/genesis-27008.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27008.txt
summary:
  We are performance artists, in our element with Dana Skully and Moon Goons. We piss in bathrooms with “whatever” door signs, kiss under crocheted blankets, smudge our eyelids with black grease.


id: genesis-27097
author: Stone, Mario
title: Croissants
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 69
sentence: 3
flesch: 86
cache: cache/genesis-27097.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27097.txt
summary:
  50 Croissants Mario Stone I close my eyes and lick your sweetness from my lips, thinking of your powdered skin beneath my fingertips. And so instead I write these words for you to always know… I savored every second twice to never let you go.


id: genesis-27282
author: McVeigh, Kayla
title: Sandstone (best of)
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 458
sentence: 32
flesch: 84
cache: cache/genesis-27282.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27282.txt
summary:
  A being called to life through moving bodies of water. Plush and rose-kissed, cushioned from cruel pressures placed on matured bodies.


id: genesis-26997
author: Watkins, Tamara
title: Shepard's Causeway
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 16
sentence: 1
flesch: 68
cache: cache/genesis-26997.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-26997.txt
summary:
  Shepard's Causeway Tamara Watkins Sharpie, black and white gel pen, acrylic, and watercolor, 12x16 - 22 -


id: genesis-27291
author: Rodriguez, Cassandra
title: Roller Coaster
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 167
sentence: 9
flesch: 88
cache: cache/genesis-27291.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27291.txt
summary:
  But still I smile and say “I’m fine” For even through the ups and downs I will love you all the same I’m only partly lying When I say I love roller coasters Because I hate this one I hate the chaos and being flung around When I say I love roller coasters Because I love the thrill The breeze in my hair


id: genesis-27315
author: Kucaj, Shannon; Simmons, Monica; Aukerman, Jason
title: Interview with Jason Aukerman (Ray Bradbury Center Director)
date: 2023
pages: 8
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2564
sentence: 109
flesch: 55
cache: cache/genesis-27315.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27315.txt
summary:
  Dr. Jon Eller, the world’s foremost scholar on Ray Bradbury, articulated four thematic principles and causes inextricably linked to Bradbury’s legacy: 1) intellectual and creative freedom: this includes matters pertaining to free speech, freedom of the imagination, and the freedom of human beings to pursue the things they love. On August 2 Bob Remington, “Ray Bradbury,” Edmonton Journal; Eller, Bradbury Beyond Apollo, pp.


id: genesis-27041
author: Ventura, Tara
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 180
sentence: 7
flesch: 75
cache: cache/genesis-27041.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27041.txt
title:
  A Final Argument over God, Alternatively Titled “Menopause,” Alternatively Alternatively Titled “For Nathan”

summary:
  A Final Argument over God, Alternatively Titled “Meno- pause,” Alternatively Alternatively Titled “For Nathan” Tara Ventura - 81 - The New York Times said that South Korea said that North Korea has fired two more missiles and I think for the second -but definitely not last- time today about how it’ll all be over soon and The New York Times won’t report on climate change or missiles anymore because no one will be left waiting to read it. much as I hate to admit it- at the thought of an earth without polar bears and bamboo and my junky car and especially me and you -but only together- in it.


id: genesis-27089
author: Wulf, Sarah
title: The Way the Money Goes
date: 2023
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1966
sentence: 173
flesch: 95
cache: cache/genesis-27089.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27089.txt
summary:
  What does yours say?” “You will soon discover easy ways to make money,” he sighed. 35 The Way the Money Goes Sarah Wulf Ian’s basement had smelled like weed and alcohol since we were about six, but Ian had only ever drank or smoked at swim team parties.


id: genesis-26991
author: McCollum, Corlan
title: A Story About Pensions
date: 2023
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 480
sentence: 22
flesch: 63
cache: cache/genesis-26991.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-26991.txt
summary:
  Upper upper management wrote very neatly in a file about upper management that they had demonstrated very diligent fiscal responsibility and sufficiently handled the accountants, and recommended them for promotion. Upper upper management noticed the firing of a quarter million accoun- tants.


id: genesis-27294
author: Williams, Savanna
title: Defending Death by Overdose
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 201
sentence: 8
flesch: 75
cache: cache/genesis-27294.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27294.txt
summary:
  In a world where the best advice they got about the opioid crisis is statistics Numbers of death per year, 46,802 Numbers of new users per year, up 27% “Oh, but it was his choice,” someone else said Yet with not enough confidence for me to believe it And they let go with a bottle of Xanax at your disposal In a doctor’s office where you’re asked a two-question survey To determine what FDA approved prescription you should get That’s the same organization that claimed OxyContin wasn’t injurious Numbers of death by OxyContin in 2020, 76,000.


id: genesis-27305
author: Hawvermale, Lance
title: For Ray
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 150
sentence: 8
flesch: 88
cache: cache/genesis-27305.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27305.txt
summary:
  He said go west young man go west until the sun tires of running and by the way there is a market for solar flares if you can bring one back, a penny a word at least. Cherry bombs and dandelions, a Mason jar of Venusian rain— Eat metaphors he told me.


id: genesis-28956
author: Bertram, Ashley Noelle
title: Pretty Ladies Shouldn’t Cry
date: 2025
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 179
sentence: 10
flesch: 86
cache: cache/genesis-28956.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28956.txt
summary:
  I guess I’m not a pretty lady because tears pour heavy in the darkness, where no one can see to say such stupid things to me; where I swear to the gods and the seas that I’m over their shit, but I still love everything they have blessed me with just to spite them. You think such delicate works of art shouldn’t depict the realities of humanity— that all things in this life don’t, in fact, suffer beautifully?


id: genesis-26975
author: Hearn, Sidnea
title: You ARE the Blueprint
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 118
sentence: 6
flesch: 83
cache: cache/genesis-26975.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-26975.txt
summary:
  The way her satin lips are soft to the touch, softer than brown skin that has been dipped in cocoa and shea butter, softer than the cotton ball clouds that form in blue skies. Strong Black Woman, your heart of gleaming gold, Why dim your shimmer, why bleach your skin, or change the way you look?


id: genesis-27276
author: Patrick, Lio
title: the patience of grief
date: 2023
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 695
sentence: 43
flesch: 86
cache: cache/genesis-27276.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27276.txt
summary:
  With deep embarrassment, I recalled the pair of funeral home workers staring at me as I had a panic attack on the bench next to the front door. - 13 - the patience of grief Lio Patrick When I was fourteen, my uncle Bear was killed by his friend, a man I never met, in a drug dispute.


id: genesis-27009
author: Pickering, Lauren
title: I'm an Octo + I Love My Cats
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 22
sentence: 1
flesch: 76
cache: cache/genesis-27009.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27009.txt
summary:
  I'm an Octo + I Love My Cats Lauren Pickering Micron and ink pen, digital Photoshop brushes, 13.69x10.5 400 DPI - 49 -


id: genesis-27098
author: Stone, Mario
title: I fucked to love, but never made it
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 92
sentence: 4
flesch: 84
cache: cache/genesis-27098.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27098.txt
summary:
  To carry on Is vanity— such endeavors in the name of love Are feats of self-deception, A felony of lips Giving way to squandered breath, pleasure past— A thorn to pierce the supple mass And burn the skin I hold close. 51 I fucked to love, but never made it Mario Stone Her crying pulse heralds the chaotic Bellows of deeper thrash.


id: genesis-28312
author: Dobson, Elise
title: The Worship of Woman
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 148
sentence: 8
flesch: 84
cache: cache/genesis-28312.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28312.txt
summary:
  I am from the font of sickly sweet honey and rose petal thorns, for I am baptized in the generational rage of Eve. I am from the wooden pews in the Catholic Church where the scripture is shov- eled down the raw throats of non-believers like the Eucharist, and no amount of church wine could wash the taste out of my mouth.


id: genesis-27296
author: Grimes, Ben
title: Taste a Little Waste with You
date: 2023
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1128
sentence: 100
flesch: 92
cache: cache/genesis-27296.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27296.txt
summary:
  She was followed by two lines of six; those behind her wore robes of black or earthy red, humming with their heads hung low as their guide took them to the empty place where only the meat was. No bones protruded from the meat; it was all flesh and blood and pus.


id: genesis-27307
author: Phillips, Corrine
title: Stuff Your Eyes with Wonder
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 176
sentence: 4
flesch: 61
cache: cache/genesis-27307.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27307.txt
summary:
  Stuff Your Eyes with Wonder Corrine Phillips When I was a child, I read a book about a pumpkin-covered tree, and I hoped for a magic October night where they might really shine down on me— where I’d search for my pumpkin among all those smiles of flickering souls in the autumn leaves, and I’d live on forever if I could just take it and carry it close to me. But as I’ve grown, I realize a harsh reality: that there is no such thing as this winsome gift of immortality— unless we paint and write our souls on canvas and the page, or capture it with a camera lens and in films that never age.


id: genesis-28245
author: Awosika, Daniel
title: Accentity (Accent Identity)
date: 2024
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 752
sentence: 32
flesch: 66
cache: cache/genesis-28245.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28245.txt
summary:
  Be it escaping from traditional customs that endanger the lives of your family or winning the visa lottery, a golden-ticket opportunity to rewrite the sins of the past and start life anew. We shop at the only few African markets around, dress up in our traditional clothing every Sunday for an inarguably African church service, pray for change in our dishonest Nigerian government, and hope our families in the motherland stay safe from random acts of violence.


id: genesis-27279
author: Kile, Kim
title: The Problem with Funeral Plants
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 99
sentence: 3
flesch: 70
cache: cache/genesis-27279.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27279.txt
summary:
  I see it every day—the drooping, withering leaves, the brown, crispy ones peeking from beneath. - 18 - The Problem with Funeral Plants Kim Kile I have a peace lily in my dining room, a reminder that you left too soon and I’m still here trying to keep this damn plant alive.


id: genesis-28987
author: Vega, Ashley
title: Grieving in Advance
date: 2025
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1202
sentence: 57
flesch: 84
cache: cache/genesis-28987.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28987.txt
summary:
  Eventually, they caught on, but there were definitely kids who thought I was lying or joking around about that for a while. Up to this point, his health had been fine, but this was when alarming things started to happen.


id: genesis-28285
author: Barakat, Ruthie
title: vibrator? hardly know her.
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 96
sentence: 2
flesch: 47
cache: cache/genesis-28285.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28285.txt
summary:
  42 i like raspberries on my fingertips, stained red and sweet my lips tingle from off-brand seltzer shoes shuffle across the floor, wood laminate underneath worn-out reeboks steps leading upstairs fingertips looking for a drawer to pull out too soon to tell it smells like purple and perfume luminescent, flickering like tongues and candlelight on top of it all, three is my lucky number, writing my name on your teeth a cat’s cradle in the bedroom, hot breath on a pillow not everything fast is battery-powered Ruthie Barakat vibrator? hardly know her.


id: genesis-26982
author: Rose, Julia
title: I Prayed to Santa Fe (best of)
date: 2023
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2824
sentence: 125
flesch: 78
cache: cache/genesis-26982.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-26982.txt
summary:
  My parents are flawed as parents, as people, and I resented them for justified reasons, but in my high school years, I was pigheaded when it came to any type of forgiveness. “And do you know the story of Juan Diego?”


id: genesis-27034
author: Millier, Camille
title: Block C
date: 2023
pages: 8
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3135
sentence: 246
flesch: 87
cache: cache/genesis-27034.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27034.txt
summary:
  Calling to report an accident involving prisoner 339 and Officer Brett St. John, guard in charge of Block C. Full report with details will be filed and sent to the office as soon as possible. And then Okay, see ya later, Officer St. John, as Brett opened the steel door to Block C and tagged out the night-shift guard.


id: genesis-28249
author: Kile, Kim
title: If...then
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 592
sentence: 26
flesch: 83
cache: cache/genesis-28249.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28249.txt
summary:
  I’m looking forward to spending days in the sunroom with you, so if you read this someday, think of me while you watch our Indiana sky turn every shade of pink, orange, and red in the mornings and the evenings. Make spinach dip and have friends over for Butler basketball games, watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” every Christmas Eve, and think of me when you see a mourning dove out the window or pick up a penny from the sidewalk.


id: genesis-28947
author: Kile, Kim
title: Body Art
date: 2025
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 95
sentence: 8
flesch: 95
cache: cache/genesis-28947.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28947.txt
summary:
  Dots of chicken pox scars mark my cheek and jaw. A canvas of scar tissue, created over time and catching the fade.


id: genesis-28329
author: Stone, Mario
title: Oración
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 102
sentence: 2
flesch: 37
cache: cache/genesis-28329.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28329.txt
summary:
  aún quedan conmigo cada recuerdo mil tesoros mil latidos implacables- en mi cofre suma una cosecha de flores, cada flor compartida es tuya – las bañe con gotas de sol el recuerdo de tus ojos tu sonrisa, tu linda amor Mario Stone Oración 154 Por favor, que cada lagrima sea una petición a Tu bendito querer, que cada vez que digo su nombre sea un pedido de mi alma – Flor del cielo, mátame anhelo morir por resucitar recordando el primer beso tan natural de cada amanecer- En convulsiones estoy, las lagrimas quemando, sudando espinas en mis mejillas- sobre mi rostro un asfixio divino.


id: genesis-28309
author: Adedipe, Zion O.
title: Shackles to Spectacles
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 212
sentence: 8
flesch: 62
cache: cache/genesis-28309.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28309.txt
summary:
  77 Outcries from the oppressive realms, where shadows weep, A realm where serpents are slain but villains are made, In our dystopian misery, Black warriors arise asserting the essence of our defi- ance, Bound by shackles, bound by chains, bound by faith, imprisoned by the bloody waxen pagans, Bound in blood, the repercussion of an attack. Voices echoing and roaring vengeance, but the bloody waxen pagans believed us to be Black swans, These same Black swans hunted their heads, murdered thousands of their crowned waxen pagans, Turning their houses to coffins and taking their recompenses into ashes, Bound by shackles, bound by chains, bound by faith, imprisoned by the bloody waxen pagans, Terror prowling at their spirits, but their Gods conquered,


id: genesis-27002
author: Heavilin, Aiden
title: The Conductor's Funeral
date: 2023
pages: 7
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3276
sentence: 170
flesch: 77
cache: cache/genesis-27002.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27002.txt
summary:
  But if you haven’t achieved it, Mr. Conductor, Mr. Old Man with Silver Spectacles, then you won’t achieve it, will you, taking your position as the leader of the multifarious rituals and stomping his foot in anger at the dozens of mistakes he perceives yet lacks the energy to criticize. Perhaps, he imagines in his deepest despair, he will never achieve the perfect performance, but there will at least be a perfect mea- sure, a sudden alignment of hearts, the entire orchestra looking up in astonishment and realizing that they are no longer reading music, they are merely playing what is right, and that what is right happens to conform perfectly with the master score.


id: genesis-27284
author: McVeigh, Kayla
title: Making Arrangements
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 181
sentence: 2
flesch: 7
cache: cache/genesis-27284.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27284.txt
summary:
  - 24 - Making Arrangements Kayla McVeigh You can take my body and have it bound in strips of linen You can dye the strips with turmeric or beet juice Do this so it will be vibrant and uplifting Allow the color to invite you to sit with me To whisper what you can barely speak and then I’d like to take rest in the earth To retire my bones in soil To be composted down You know for me there would be no greater ceremony Do this to help return what I have borrowed in this life Allow me to spark life like whale fall Know better than to think these wishes speak against my contentment with life You know my joy in all phases You know my being present is what moves me to make these arrangements To be here, but taking note of each rotation around the sun See every stage as intentional Shouldn’t this include our most transparent surprise The flesh of my body and feelings of my experiences are temporary But my continuation will be endless


id: genesis-27309
author: Keedy, Ron
title: Silver Flash Minnows and Pickle Green Frogs
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 133
sentence: 8
flesch: 84
cache: cache/genesis-27309.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27309.txt
summary:
  Silver Flash Minnows and Pickle Green Frogs Ron Keedy Silver flash minnows and pickle green frogs, Brown-eared bunnies inside hollow logs. A fast moving ripple gives bare feet a tickle, A snake crosses path causing neck hair to prickle.


id: genesis-28286
author: Adie, Selma
title: butterflies
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 62
sentence: 1
flesch: 42
cache: cache/genesis-28286.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28286.txt
summary:
  44 the butterflies in my chest have been dormant and sleeping for ages but when you brushed up against me and knocked on my heart they awoke in a frenzy and threw themselves against my ribcage, fervent, aching to be set free and land gently on your face and adorn your gorgeous eyes and decorate your cheeks like freckles Selma Adie butterflies


id: genesis-26993
author: Ventura, Tara
title: A Bone to Pick
date: 2023
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1357
sentence: 116
flesch: 97
cache: cache/genesis-26993.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-26993.txt
summary:
  Nico stood with plug in hand, ready to yank, the meat grinder rumbled on. “You don’t bet with money when you work at a deli and nobody shoots a gun in New York without somebody else around to hear it,” Nico told me when he noticed me peeking.


id: genesis-27293
author: Wulf, Sarah
title: Jas
date: 2023
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1226
sentence: 109
flesch: 97
cache: cache/genesis-27293.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27293.txt
summary:
  I want to rip out my hair and scream and kick walls and punch floors until someone tells me what happened to the boy in the video that put the fork into the socket and where Travis is and whether Jas is alive or not. Jas Sarah Wulf I’m pretty sure my friend Jas is dead.


id: genesis-28250
author: Rump, Alicia
title: Rebuilding Home
date: 2024
pages: 8
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3625
sentence: 224
flesch: 87
cache: cache/genesis-28250.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28250.txt
summary:
  A wooden plaque hangs in the hallway that reads ‘best dad’ with all of our names carved out below it. Maddie mumbles.


id: genesis-28959
author: Jones, Caedence
title: 7 Stages
date: 2025
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 239
sentence: 20
flesch: 80
cache: cache/genesis-28959.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28959.txt
summary:
  7272 I. Breathe your first breath—inhale life; Open your eyes to a big, bright world, II. Claim your first step with a steady stomp, & another & another & another.


id: genesis-28280
author: Surdzial, Eliza
date: 2024
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 245
sentence: 14
flesch: 79
cache: cache/genesis-28280.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28280.txt
title:
  Hurricane St. Agatha through the Eyes of a Coastal Florida Timeshare Purchased through a Costco Membership circa 2017

summary:
  Deteriorated paint and damaged wallpaper drooping half-way down the wall, scattered lilies blooming, breathing in the water. Eliza Surdzial Hurricane St. Agatha through the Eyes of a Coastal Florida Timeshare Purchased through a Costco Membership circa 2017 19 The home’s skin shed like a snake’s with every scratch and blue bruise carried away.


id: genesis-27005
author: Battin, Kyle
title: Pattern I (Recolored)
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 19
sentence: 1
flesch: 58
cache: cache/genesis-27005.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27005.txt
summary:
  Pattern I (Recolored) Kyle Battin Acrylic ink, 3-color screenprint on 100lb paper, 9x9 image on 12x12paper - 39 -


id: genesis-28988
author: Montanez, Sarah
title: Mend
date: 2025
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 19
sentence: 1
flesch: 71
cache: cache/genesis-28988.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28988.txt
summary:
  165 8” x 8” Found Image, Archival Inkjet Print on Habotai Silk, Embroidery Floss, Embroidery Hoop Sarah Montanez Mend


id: genesis-27082
author: Gonzalez, Anthony
title: A Stalker’s Mercy
date: 2023
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2487
sentence: 164
flesch: 93
cache: cache/genesis-27082.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27082.txt
summary:
  Kalista slowly made her way down the narrow road, rifle at the low ready, watching for any sign of life. Cautiously, she began to make her way up the steps, eyes and rifle barrel never leaving the entryway.


id: genesis-28282
author: Terhorst, Elizabeth
title: Windsor and Newtown Galeria Acrylic
date: 2024
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 198
sentence: 26
flesch: 98
cache: cache/genesis-28282.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28282.txt
summary:
  Elizabeth Terhorst Windsor and Newtown Galeria Acrylic 27 Blue Slapped across my back From times I was too young to remember.


id: genesis-28288
author: Surdzial, Eliza
title: Milk-White Bones
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 184
sentence: 10
flesch: 85
cache: cache/genesis-28288.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28288.txt
summary:
  I need me outside in to save your hands the strain from finger food staining to be easier to consume. Perhaps dried-up like the apple chips your mother would buy from Whole Foods for your Little League games.


id: genesis-28325
author: Fee, Bee
title: to have and to hold
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 155
sentence: 3
flesch: 60
cache: cache/genesis-28325.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28325.txt
summary:
  139 Slice through the skin like a sharpened knife against paper Clutch the dampened couch cushions as pain grits teeth Suck air through a clenched jaw The pain sears and sizzles at the edge of my vision Fragmented glimpses of you Blink Tears drip from eyes I search for your eyes You have none Stab at the body blindly as if you are simply a piece of flesh An empty vessel tossed aside for the buzzards and vultures alike Search for Humanity In this moment of despair, I plead for mercy Call their name Please Do not answer Claw with nails, tear through tissue and muscle right down to the bone Crack ribs Pluck out their still-beating heart with talons A claw machine, your hand dangles and sways Mocking What you came for has been found – my heart was only ever yours: to have and to hold.


id: genesis-26981
author: Hand, Siren
title: Nina
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 118
sentence: 6
flesch: 80
cache: cache/genesis-26981.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-26981.txt
summary:
  Inside on Aphrodite’s couch, though we purr like lions, stroking each other’s cheek and melt, all curly hair and dimples, floral dresses with deep pockets. Growl at passing men on sidewalks off our oppressive leashes, uncaged unwilling to paint ourselves pure and be blank canvases in a jeweler's display.


id: genesis-28948
author: Neier, Xavier
title: WANTED ADS
date: 2025
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 418
sentence: 37
flesch: 63
cache: cache/genesis-28948.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28948.txt
summary:
  Xavier Neier WANTED ADS 41 Additional requirements include: • Texting and Calling 24/7 (Prepare for 2:00AM Panic Attacks) • Spiraling Conversations on Zillow Apartments • Exploration for the Best Indianapolis Restaurants for Dates ($20 per Meal Limit) • Building Pillow Forts with Emotional Security Blankets • Broken Cars that I Can Fix (Wheels Only) Modest physical contact (handholding, resting on each other, prolonged eye-con- tact) is considered long-term commitment. 4040 WANTED: Biological Mother (Full-time position only)* Single, mid-twenties man seeks biological mother.


id: genesis-28320
author: Kluger, Alexandra
title: Send to Postal Code: 184209
date: 2024
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 210
sentence: 13
flesch: 83
cache: cache/genesis-28320.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28320.txt
summary:
  I am from strange looking letters; mainly symbols because “letters” are unrecognizable. 112 I am from naked birch trees, that blend in with the gray skies seamlessly.


id: genesis-28945
author: Nettum, Signe
title: My Mother’s Dirt Cake
date: 2025
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 568
sentence: 45
flesch: 86
cache: cache/genesis-28945.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28945.txt
summary:
  Mix butter, cream cheese, and sugar in a bowl. • 32 ounces chocolate sandwich cookies with creme filling - Oreos are synonymous with the concept of cookie sandwiches and that is for a valid reason.


id: genesis-28994
author: Dash, Shyama Prasad
title: The Midnight Flight
date: 2025
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 771
sentence: 44
flesch: 84
cache: cache/genesis-28994.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28994.txt
summary:
  The way he handed me item after item to pack into the suitcases, how he folded my clothes with the care of someone piecing together something already falling apart, his silence at dinner, the unspoken things weighed heavier than words. Before I left, Baba had been standing by the door, one hand tightly gripping onto the frame as if holding himself up, the other dangling loosely by his side.


id: genesis-27278
author: Humes, Kira
title: Sins of Daughters
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 18
sentence: 1
flesch: 80
cache: cache/genesis-27278.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27278.txt
summary:
  - 17 - Sins of Daughters Kira Humes Graphite on an illustration board in a crosshatch style; 15 x 20


id: genesis-28940
author: Kile, Kim
title: Genetics
date: 2025
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 99
sentence: 6
flesch: 87
cache: cache/genesis-28940.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28940.txt
summary:
  A mother and daughter, tethered like hot air balloons by the strongest of cords, soon to be connected by only the genes we share. Will my hazel eyes win out over your father’s brilliant blue? You rest, head down, tiny feet pressed in my ribs, the roo to my kanga, stealing my breath before you even arrive.


id: genesis-28278
author: Turgeon, Anna
title: Cicadas
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 114
sentence: 12
flesch: 85
cache: cache/genesis-28278.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28278.txt
summary:
  10 Background noise takes center stage When it’s least desired. The din of dusk drones on and crescendos with my empathy.


id: genesis-28314
author: Wilhelm, Raeya
title: Refurbished Doll
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 91
sentence: 7
flesch: 92
cache: cache/genesis-28314.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28314.txt
summary:
  Do we glue the dead leaves to the winter tree and pretend they never died? Raeya Wilhelm Refurbished Doll Most efforts are in vain.


id: genesis-28975
author: Saorrono, Elena
title: Marian
date: 2025
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 217
sentence: 5
flesch: 56
cache: cache/genesis-28975.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28975.txt
summary:
  The day you appear before my clouded gaze Marian, please hear me cry for you Marian, demand the seas to be merciful, Marian Eins, zwei, drei, vier, I count how I call you, Marian The waters jolt and tug this ship I tumble and topple, waiting for you Above the raging seas, you softly drift I am fearful, for my end is not yet due Not without you, Marian, cease these waters Thalassa has gripped me, now oblivion below here My final breath before plunging into the ocean Zieh mich aus dem Meer Du bist mein Schutzengel, so schön Ich liebe dich, Marian Marian, the sea extinguishes my essence, Marian Eins, zwei, drei, vier, I count how I call you, Marian You deny the depths of my soul My altar, my saint, my grace from the waves In the sea of pouring rain Beneath the sheet of clouds I reach for you, pray with no shame Your absence plummets me further down Please sense my desperation, Marian To the heavens, I wish to the stars To the seas, I curse to the waves I crave the day you stand near and not afar


id: genesis-28952
author: Kile, Kim
title: Created Equal
date: 2025
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 90
sentence: 5
flesch: 77
cache: cache/genesis-28952.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28952.txt
summary:
  Our bodies once revered, once worshipped, gutted like today’s fresh catch on the news, social media, the Congressional floor. Kim Kile Created Equal


id: genesis-28244
author: Edwards, Ayva
title: Hoarder of Memories
date: 2024
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2485
sentence: 118
flesch: 82
cache: cache/genesis-28244.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28244.txt
summary:
  Along with those are various Christmas cards from work, a few mini Thinking of You cards mailed to me by my grandma in South Carolina, Valentine’s Day cards, a ginkgo leaf (my favorite tree), a few fortunes from Panda Express, and the top of a donut box from when my current best friend, Karina, revealed to me that she was pregnant; Do-nut be mad, You’ll be a great auntie! They primarily consist of birth- day, graduation, and Christmas cards.


id: genesis-28310
author: Wilson, Ashley
title: Incantation for the end of pain
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 108
sentence: 10
flesch: 98
cache: cache/genesis-28310.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28310.txt
summary:
  Ashley Wilson Incantation for the end of pain Take this, all sinew and stretch; tie the strands of my muscles to wicked steeds.


id: genesis-28333
author: Barakat, Ruthie
title: back when the world was within walking distance,
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 145
sentence: 9
flesch: 81
cache: cache/genesis-28333.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28333.txt
summary:
  with tiny fists unafraid to meet rusted wire fence. must have gone through thousands of boxes of blueberry toaster strudel. dirt angels formed beside a baseball dugout, splayed arms and legs moved in unison, blue skies above the neighborhood.


id: genesis-28243
author: Hostettler, Emily
title: The Fan
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 409
sentence: 43
flesch: 96
cache: cache/genesis-28243.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28243.txt
summary:
  It didn’t help on humid nights. It smelled as if someone mistook a can of deet for a can of room freshener.


id: genesis-28259
author: Merida, Haley
title: Spring
date: 2024
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2761
sentence: 197
flesch: 93
cache: cache/genesis-28259.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28259.txt
summary:
  When I crawled into my mother’s bed after school that day, my mother brushed my hair from my face as I told her all about how Callie and I played at recess. It said Callie.


id: genesis-28976
author: Park, Isabella
title: Nightly Comparison
date: 2025
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 72
sentence: 7
flesch: 84
cache: cache/genesis-28976.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28976.txt
summary:
  Covertly stuck between zipper clasps and tight french braids. 139139 He is lost on lightless new moon nights.


id: genesis-27027
author: Ventura, Tara
title: january poem
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 237
sentence: 3
flesch: 25
cache: cache/genesis-27027.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27027.txt
summary:
  january poem Tara Ventura - 78 - in my dreams i rip my heart out myself and offer it to you–still salvageable and everything– i am the sacrifice i never get used to it seeing it lie there screaming in front of you i put it all on the table and watched you walk in reality i do it alone they say it’s a two person job but that’s never stopped me before forget the rope or any of the toys for that matter. i always was an eleven pm decision. not fucked up enough to forget me but not quite sober enough to want me the next morning either rub those circles in my back, connect every sun kissed freckle and mole i don’t want to hide them they’re proof i’ve lived without you i could be the perfect confidant unable to tell another soul


id: genesis-28303
author: Platt, Trent
title: My Father Grew Wings
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 143
sentence: 9
flesch: 98
cache: cache/genesis-28303.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28303.txt
summary:
  When you sway on swings with mulch chips in your nails, you two are there. Trent Platt My Father Grew Wings


id: genesis-29001
author: Blackburn, Tegan
title: (I) Wanted (My D)ad
date: 2025
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 578
sentence: 33
flesch: 70
cache: cache/genesis-29001.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-29001.txt
summary:
  Take care not to mistake memories with replacement father for former father. WANTED: Replacement Father (full-time)* Autistic, genderqueer twenty-something seeks replacement father for the hol- lowed out, still-warm crater the original left behind.


id: genesis-28330
author: McVeigh, Kayla
title: Gives life
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 124
sentence: 5
flesch: 84
cache: cache/genesis-28330.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28330.txt
summary:
  He is a blinding flash of light “And if I made you bleed?” he taunts Ribbons of blood coil around him I pull him closer to the surface His light crackles Static sparks sting my hands My hair fades My eyes cloud over My joints and bones resist me The line snaps The fish says: “Would sleep be so bad after a time of unrest?” Kayla McVeigh Gives life 155 Glimmering scales of lapis lazuli


id: genesis-28936
author: Bozinovski, Victoria
title: I go there
date: 2025
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 224
sentence: 15
flesch: 90
cache: cache/genesis-28936.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28936.txt
summary:
  Smells of bleached tropical shores, Lapping blue foam over briny grains, Beading sweat that tastes like the sea, I go there. 9 When day favors gloom Both in the pallid tufts of condensed cloud


id: genesis-28328
author: Miller, Jared
title: Sign Crushes Motorist
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 185
sentence: 2
flesch: 9
cache: cache/genesis-28328.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28328.txt
summary:
  152 I had a dream about you the night before my birthday we were in my bed our legs were where our heads should’ve been I was on top of you your shirt was off I held you like a vice around your chest so tight I feared cracking your ribs we weren’t having sex that was never the intention we were talking whispering giggling I gave you kisses on your naked shoulder you were not something won or conquered you were camaraderie personified a person who I both saw myself in and admired with my whole being our hearts beat against one another each desperately hoping to break out of their respective cages to become a singular atom at once it was like what being in love is like it felt like being home it was over quick even for a dream, it was a quick and blurry flash still the brief vignette stuck in my head I told you about it the next morning the morning of my birthday I can’t remember what you said Jared Miller Sign Crushes Motorist


id: genesis-28254
author: Hoppel, Maggie
title: Dear Lance
date: 2024
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1585
sentence: 147
flesch: 97
cache: cache/genesis-28254.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28254.txt
summary:
  Maggie Hoppel Dear Lance 48 Dear Lance “You need to untie Stephen, and…” Lance trails off. Dear Lance, I’ll say.


id: genesis-28308
author: Cassetty, Christopher
title: Fragmentation
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 268
sentence: 7
flesch: 69
cache: cache/genesis-28308.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28308.txt
summary:
  Then I dropped into the bed and saw the light around me grow dim, and instantly from day, it was—to night and the sheets were warm, and the water just right, and I closed my eyes; I hoped then, if I didn’t open them again, I wouldn’t see her leave. I felt her words cover my head and neck, bathing me, cleansing me, running cool from the tap until the water heater croaks to life and you hear whining in the pipes like the ringing of your ears, and of course, I didn’t hear what she said.


id: genesis-28279
author: Kraljic, Tomislav
title: The Dahlia That Withered Away
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 112
sentence: 7
flesch: 87
cache: cache/genesis-28279.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28279.txt
summary:
  15 the sable ragged curtains hang onto the stained metal grommets obscuring the clear windowpane that breathes life into this somber room. Tomislav Kraljic The Dahlia That Withered Away


id: genesis-28982
author: Schleppenbach, Amy
title: Along the Perforations
date: 2025
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1401
sentence: 72
flesch: 79
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summary:
  She confirmed this with the librarian who had honestly wanted to see if I would read it when I finished my Scholastic reading challenge early then had filled in more books on the back of the page, hoping for extra points for our class to win the pizza party. I should have read more books.


id: genesis-28964
author: Terhorst, Elizabeth
title: Sammy
date: 2025
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 833
sentence: 45
flesch: 88
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summary:
  For years, in the middle of summer when the nauseous heat clung to the undersides of our bones, our mother’s brother would come to visit. As children, he promised her and I that as long as we stood with God in our hearts and him in our hands, we’d never fall.


id: genesis-28257
author: Surdzial, Eliza
title: How to Sell Your Body (and Survive It) (best of)
date: 2024
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 825
sentence: 82
flesch: 93
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summary:
  Repeat to yourself that virginity and body count are just concepts meant to belittle women’s sexuality. By the end of your first year, have regulars.


id: genesis-28971
author: Fee, Dex
title: What the Bourbon Does to Him
date: 2025
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 160
sentence: 8
flesch: 87
cache: cache/genesis-28971.pdf
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summary:
  One day, he took a swig every time he passed the bourbon, running laps around the kitchen island for an excuse to circle back. Dex Fee What the Bourbon Does to Him


id: genesis-28992
author: Guzman, Dayanara
title: Muñeca
date: 2025
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 158
sentence: 10
flesch: 89
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summary:
  Pristine princess with a porcelain face dressed head to toe in rose and gold. Dayanara Guzman Muñeca


id: genesis-28302
author: McVeigh, Kayla
title: Keeping Our Practices: A Walk Through Crown Hill
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 224
sentence: 10
flesch: 82
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summary:
  Until another match flickers and the next stick burns Nag Champa floating up into the air and over the graves Kayla McVeigh Keeping Our Practices: A Walk Through Crown Hill Pocketing fragments of the infamous Dillinger fame How am I not to pause at the strange exchanges of closed eyes and bowed heads?


id: genesis-26979
author: Hand, Siren
title: Tarantella
date: 2023
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 232
sentence: 13
flesch: 84
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summary:
  Shove a ten in the tip jar to a turned back, sway to crusted velvet couch that's probably cradled too many lovers— set seasick glasses on the low table. We don't dance, we pulse we free-form flow into hours when only the Divine would be awake, strobing: our shadows play on a gridded confessional wall, stained glass chandeliers paint us holy.


id: genesis-28979
author: Pickett, Sam
title: Call Us When You Need Us
date: 2025
pages: 5
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1409
sentence: 173
flesch: 102
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summary:
  I look at myself and dad reflected in a big wall-mounted Sony tv from the mid 2000s as Miss Betty says, “Hold on, hold on, John,” and Mr. John grunts and breathes. Miss Betty asks Mr. John.


id: genesis-27069
author: Marquam, Nathan
title: A COVID Supermarket in Indiana
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 477
sentence: 30
flesch: 87
cache: cache/genesis-27069.pdf
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summary:
  Tonight, I’ll watch you spin, Allen Ginsberg, and try to untangle my mind. Ginsberg, I dated the grocery boy.


id: genesis-28248
author: Butler, Tyler
title: Being Black
date: 2024
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2679
sentence: 204
flesch: 94
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summary:
  I was being exposed to not just music, but black music. If I had time I would hang out with them and we’d have fun for hours on end.


id: genesis-28315
author: McVeigh, Kayla
title: Grey Hair
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 167
sentence: 18
flesch: 94
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summary:
  A gentleness that comes from the aging of dark hair to a softened grey. Daily surprises are offered within a lifetime.


id: genesis-27280
author: Cassetty, Christopher
title: Poppies
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 198
sentence: 4
flesch: 56
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summary:
  I watch these stars stir amidst the bleakness of dried tears, and virgin stars join, occasionally, as old ones are blown away like dust when they grow too old to keep themselves whole, and when will I join their fate? The curtains sough through open windows, and feels my grieving face the virility of Spring—and I see through watery eyes my nepenthe drowned, and only then do I realize that it is possible to love something too—too much.


id: genesis-27308
author: Keedy, Ron
title: The Clodhoppers of Winter
date: 2023
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 692
sentence: 28
flesch: 80
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summary:
  On hot summer days past, it sheltered sweaty, cheering baseball fans from the sun. Tennis shoes that are full of summer magic.


id: genesis-28307
author: Adie, Selma
title: I Miss the Homs Shopping Malls
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 255
sentence: 4
flesch: 42
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summary:
  74 The first time I learned what death was I saw body bags lined up roughly in the hallway of a mall There was nowhere else to put them Soon enough, the bags ran out, and then it was just bodies Bloodied and bruised and charred in weird ways There wasn’t enough press to cover every death So survivors wandered down the line, looking for someone they recognized A mother, a son, a brother For some, their face would turn suddenly And they’d throw themselves on a body, sobbing Others just looked solemn and sat by their friends’ remains A week later, I went to an American funeral for the first time I was eight and just starting to understand what it meant to die I was scared because I didn’t want to see a family friend’s dad Splayed and bloodied on the floor of our local shopping mall And I wondered where I’d go when I died With my people, blue and swollen, on a bloody linoleum floor Or in an empty room, in an elaborate casket, alone Selma Adie I Miss the Homs Shopping Malls


id: genesis-28977
author: Hembree, Eris
title: Ribcage
date: 2025
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 160
sentence: 7
flesch: 80
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summary:
  To love is to be consumed To be loved is to consume We are an ouroboros loving flesh consuming loving flesh Breaking free from that cage That sits in our chest Eris Hembree Ribcage 140140 My heart sits in a cage of flesh and bone It sits enshrined in the center of my chest Trapped within is both love and pain equally sown All I am is hidden under my dress To find me is a brutal affair A cruel act of carnage borne of care


id: genesis-28983
author: Allee, Evan
title: Doomsday
date: 2025
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 914
sentence: 43
flesch: 81
cache: cache/genesis-28983.pdf
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summary:
  Beaches we once loved will no longer exist for tiny feet to skip through; I will not watch children who are not our own crash through foamy waves and dig for seashells while I dig a grave. 154154 As the Sun falls behind the yew tree


id: genesis-29018
author: Benson, Chase
title: Cannoli (best of)
date: 2025
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 213
sentence: 19
flesch: 98
cache: cache/genesis-29018.pdf
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summary:
  Garnished with fruit, it fills the mouth with thick cream. He rims the shell’s interior with a light jam, As cream reaches the cusp, sap seeps out the edge.


id: genesis-28934
author: Evans, Bailey; Witham, Eli
title: Letter from the Editors
date: 2025
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 268
sentence: 14
flesch: 66
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summary:
  We want to thank all of our readers, who have carried issues of genesis around campus in backpacks and tote bags or gifted copies to their friends and classmates. We are grateful for all of our contributors and editors who emphasize this need for human expression and understanding.


id: genesis-28304
author: Cassetty, Christopher
title: Lavender
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 246
sentence: 5
flesch: 54
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summary:
  Then these images take shape to me, and I see the birds fly away into seas of oranges and blues, and far away the palette blends into thunderous and dark blacks—and whites, and rains then pour from above me, and I look down to see suddenly sand beneath my legs, slowly turning piebald from the worsening summer rains, and I take the sand within my hands and watch it spill from between my webbed and pure fingers, and the clumps where the rain had touched fall out so—displeasingly— but I gaze back up to find the sun dip beneath tumultuous and restless seas, and I go to take my breath and stand before I’m confronted by death and gasp— I see the bouquet before me wherefrom those lavender petals had fallen to the floor, flowers hanging withered from a vase just filled with freshly reclaimed rainwater. I stare, cross-legged on the floor in front of my bed, at this sky, where light beiges mix so beautifully with the dappled singes of the dried lavender leaves, almost like birds amidst clouds between me and the foreboding and soon night.


id: genesis-27310
author: Terry, Roger
title: From Ray, with Love
date: 2023
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3458
sentence: 178
flesch: 82
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summary:
  I found my way to a section of smaller books, all carefully placed in zip lock bags like fine finger-sandwiches. From Ray, with Love Roger Terry To be rocketed from this world to a place so fantastic, yet so familiar that it steals your breath away, that is what it feels like to read Ray Bradbury.


id: genesis-27026
author: Scott, Kat
title: The plaster tub
date: 2023
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 401
sentence: 27
flesch: 91
cache: cache/genesis-27026.pdf
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summary:
  Her smiles opened doors, her words slicked chintzy palms while I became a receptacle for long nights gone awry. She wanted me to embrace them: the ones who shriek and yowl from their trucks like they’re in heat, latching bitter eyes as they caress your ass.


id: genesis-28253
author: Russell, Ava
title: Lady in Thread
date: 2024
pages: 11
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 5237
sentence: 319
flesch: 89
cache: cache/genesis-28253.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28253.txt
summary:
  Linda’s dress greeted me from the corner of my sewing room, and every discouraging, intrusive thought that had managed to regenerate during work that day melted away once again. “Well, what is it?” “Linda.


id: genesis-28986
author: Garris, Hayden
title: Second Place
date: 2025
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 197
sentence: 18
flesch: 97
cache: cache/genesis-28986.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28986.txt
summary:
  A wall between us, where fissures hide behind lines of neat prose, typed above idyllic photos of you in some faraway fairyland, where money, your currency for love, buys you the life you always dreamed of. Is love, like money, a kind of greed?


id: genesis-27099
author: Foster, Payton
title: On Plato and Humanity
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 118
sentence: 9
flesch: 87
cache: cache/genesis-27099.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27099.txt
summary:
  Blurring occurs beneath layers of linen And under the dense cover that is night That makes us indistinguishable. I long to stay with you forever this way, Us two melding and becoming seamlessly one.


id: genesis-28980
author: McCollum, Corlan
title: Heart of Ohio
date: 2025
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 121
sentence: 12
flesch: 88
cache: cache/genesis-28980.pdf
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summary:
  Welcome, travelers from distant lands, to the bleeding Heart of Ohio! 147147 Welcome, one and all, to the Heart of Ohio!


id: genesis-27084
author: McVeigh, Kayla
title: Modern Medicine
date: 2023
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 451
sentence: 26
flesch: 78
cache: cache/genesis-27084.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-27084.txt
summary:
  Likewise, the staff seems to have been upgraded to young doctors and nurses with plastic skin. Old frumpy furniture with thread- bare cushions has been replaced with sleek modern benches that are resistant to wearing down.


id: genesis-28318
author: Kile, Kim
title: Your Dying
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 191
sentence: 6
flesch: 70
cache: cache/genesis-28318.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28318.txt
summary:
  106 The last time I saw you alive, death was creeping up your throat, taking you from the inside out. It didn’t steal you quietly in the night, but suffocated you slowly, taunting you, offering you peace for the briefest of seconds before tightening its grip around your throat, causing you to sit up and cry in pain.


id: genesis-28991
author: Garris, Hayden
title: Duality
date: 2025
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 98
sentence: 8
flesch: 90
cache: cache/genesis-28991.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28991.txt
summary:
  One half my agent of despair and my other whose role is repair. 183183 Hayden Garris I am two voices alone in the night, a crescendo of whispers with a double entwined.


id: genesis-28324
author: Adie, Selma
title: The Cradle
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 203
sentence: 10
flesch: 90
cache: cache/genesis-28324.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28324.txt
summary:
  Sometimes I would ask for color In the only way I knew how I would scream, and the world Would only scream back When I grew older, they gave me Two colors, as a reward I got blue, for being good And green, for staying quiet I got hungry, I got tired It gave me colors to shut me up Paints in purple and pink I couldn’t eat the colors Couldn’t sleep on them, either


id: genesis-28955
author: Dobson, Elise
title: In the Shadow of Magdalene
date: 2025
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 117
sentence: 10
flesch: 84
cache: cache/genesis-28955.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28955.txt
summary:
  Choral hymns stink of Catholic wraith, breath that reeks of poor self restraint. The Virgin Mary carries latex love, a sanitized and sultry slut.


id: genesis-28322
author: Dixon, Saloni
title: No Dinner
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 152
sentence: 14
flesch: 93
cache: cache/genesis-28322.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28322.txt
summary:
  clogging up rivers, muffling jambalaya rhythms riding sweet bass strings, and I hear centuries carcasses of the dancing drums. your belly ready to sail icy seas like a torn page from a book.


id: genesis-28316
author: Hunsader, Clayton
title: a zombie
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 191
sentence: 14
flesch: 72
cache: cache/genesis-28316.pdf
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summary:
  as more became infected, the protected passively grew from natural progression. little larvae are always attracted to them, the stench of decay follows dilapidated bone structures and liquified internal organs.


id: genesis-28251
author: Barakat, Ruthie
title: Miles Per Minute
date: 2024
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1673
sentence: 108
flesch: 91
cache: cache/genesis-28251.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28251.txt
summary:
  She should have said everything wasn’t okay, that Aunt Emmy could save her – had to save her – that Sheriff Bill should take her away from Daddy. Aunt Emmy had asked, eyeballing Daddy from across the room.


id: genesis-28326
author: Seigel, Sarah
title: The Process of Healing
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 221
sentence: 16
flesch: 91
cache: cache/genesis-28326.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28326.txt
summary:
  Sarah Seigel The Process of Healing She tells herself that this life is so sweet, feeling the faint way her heart beats, pretending that she does not lie down in defeat, her mother asks her when she will eat.


id: genesis-29008
author: Miller, Levi
title: Full Moons Are Perfect for a Werewolf to Come Out (As Transgender) (best of)
date: 2025
pages: 13
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 4869
sentence: 423
flesch: 92
cache: cache/genesis-29008.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-29008.txt
summary:
  “This is amazing, Violet,” I said to Donnie’s mom. Donnie cleared his throat, eyes wide enough that I could see little red blood vessels.


id: genesis-28962
author: Neier, Xavier
title: Final Affairs from a Patient Suffering a Quarter-Life Crisis
date: 2025
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 698
sentence: 33
flesch: 77
cache: cache/genesis-28962.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28962.txt
summary:
  For the green totes that hold baby clothes, old Mexican blankets, and my birth mother’s po- laroid picture, please keep them safe and tucked away. My parents have plenty of money and my brothers do not need it.


id: genesis-28321
author: McVeigh, Kayla
title: Fair Winds and Following Seas
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 169
sentence: 1
flesch: -67
cache: cache/genesis-28321.pdf
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summary:
  114 A maritime phrase for wishing farewell and a safe voyage If goodbyes bleed, so be it Let them chum the waters calling wide-mouthed bullhead sharks Circling blackened seas Fins like sails cutting through the push and pull of tides Let them feed Tooth by tooth, scissoring through flesh Let ships be called to the edge of the world Sinking through deeper shades of navy they are returned Within the depths that keep creatures with little use for eyes If goodbyes cry, have them sing out with shorebirds Let them sound over waves crashing along coastal cliffs that hold speckled eggs Glaucous-winged gulls Flapping above choppy waters, flight caught in stirring winds and skies Let us cry Wing by wing, rising above currents Let tides tumble along the stretches of shoreline Crushing dark green glass, smoothing discarded Heineken bottles In waves, all things exist somewhere between flotsam and found And goodbyes are just tradition for all that lives at sea Kayla McVeigh Fair Winds and Following Seas


id: genesis-28283
author: Stone, Mario
title: Inspiró
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 236
sentence: 7
flesch: 69
cache: cache/genesis-28283.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28283.txt
summary:
  Te lo diré… pues te digo que sí, que sí te mentí una y sólo una vez más por el miedo… La verdad es que sí… que sí… que sí fue por ti que me rasgué in two in two arrancando de mi corazón la rosa que entre lágrimas leíste … Y que sí que sí que sí lo pensé… en un futuro los dos, el comenzar de un cuento, el cuento sin fin Mario Stone Inspiró “Me gusta complacerte” – me encantó escucharte cantar, acariciarte y “Por favor” despertarme bajo tus miles de besos sobre mi rostro – Lagrimas compartidas, más que una, que dos… más que tres veces… Calmaste mis penas y me partiste en dos.


id: genesis-28287
author: Barakat, Ruthie
title: DJ Khalid could never
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 122
sentence: 8
flesch: 94
cache: cache/genesis-28287.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28287.txt
summary:
  you open your mouth and i make that airplane sound, lovingly churned cream and sugar destined for your tongue we lay back, stomachs full, mouths sticky, sweet tooth still not satiated Ruthie Barakat DJ Khalid i want it sweet, so cold i can feel the nerves in my teeth, screaming through enamel you bite down, i tell you to go slowly – you’ll give yourself a bellyache.


id: genesis-28966
author: McNeil, Thomas
title: Marlboro Reds
date: 2025
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 196
sentence: 12
flesch: 82
cache: cache/genesis-28966.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28966.txt
summary:
  No more for me the ashy asses, confetti sprinkles of white and gray onto the floor of my green Corolla littered with empty Red Bull cans. Wondering what to do on rainy days, when I run away and hide.


id: genesis-29022
author: Park, Isabella
title: The Computed Image of Us
date: 2025
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 183
sentence: 17
flesch: 86
cache: cache/genesis-29022.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-29022.txt
summary:
  Have you found a tank to take over–are you shooting big missiles into empty fields of overgrown grass? Do you miss touching soft skin?


id: genesis-28246
author: Blackburn, Tegan
title: Not Your Kind of Faggot (best of)
date: 2024
pages: 3
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1247
sentence: 65
flesch: 87
cache: cache/genesis-28246.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28246.txt
summary:
  That word spat at short haired girls, girls in flannels, girls with set jaws and chiseled faces, whether they have held another girl in their eyes or not. Not me, the Barbie Princess on Halloween with her purple tulle dress and long golden hair.


id: genesis-28949
author: Tipton, Emile
title: The Human Heart Hasn’t Changed
date: 2025
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 19
sentence: 1
flesch: 76
cache: cache/genesis-28949.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28949.txt
summary:
  42 22” x 30” Copper Plate Triptychs Etching Printed on Paper Emile Tipton The Human Heart Hasn’t Changed


id: genesis-28954
author: Bertram, Ashley Noelle
title: The Modern Woman
date: 2025
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2520
sentence: 123
flesch: 79
cache: cache/genesis-28954.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28954.txt
summary:
  It wouldn’t be until I was nearly 30 years old that I learned that plenty of other millennial women had felt the same way, or that my grandma, in all her anger, felt it too. Gloria shares a bold monologue about the societal expectations against women, including this line: “You have to never get old, never be rude, never show off, never be selfish, never fall down, never fail, never show fear, never get out of line.”


id: genesis-28989
author: Allee, Evan
title: The Sleepwriter
date: 2025
pages: 16
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 5485
sentence: 442
flesch: 92
cache: cache/genesis-28989.pdf
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summary:
  Imagination is a blessing and a curse, if Ellis believed in blessings. She argued that they counted anyway, and she and Ellis needed all the luck they could get.


id: genesis-28247
author: Neier, Xavier
title: How to be a Mexican American in Indiana
date: 2024
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 646
sentence: 30
flesch: 81
cache: cache/genesis-28247.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28247.txt
summary:
  Go ahead, take more classes, do more tutoring sessions, connect to other Hispanic clubs; do these things, even when you don’t fit in; you may never become fully Mexican, but you are still Mexican, and hey, being bilingual is a worthy skill. Get exposed as a fraud; take Spanish classes throughout high school; then take more classes at college; great, now you can read at a second-grade level; join the school’s Latino club, you’ll fit right in, right?


id: genesis-28260
author: McVeigh, Kayla
title: Before We Forget
date: 2024
pages: 6
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2945
sentence: 239
flesch: 90
cache: cache/genesis-28260.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28260.txt
summary:
  It wasn’t that Peter and Norman fought, but from the time he moved out for college and went into medicine, he and his dad had grown apart. Norman would ask Peter to decipher his notes, but Peter noticed they had become less legible.


id: genesis-28998
author: Allee, Evan
title: love languages
date: 2025
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 99
sentence: 16
flesch: 88
cache: cache/genesis-28998.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28998.txt
summary:
  i. gifting a carcass; a hound’s loudest love language shamed, diminutive ii. whining for hours, your dead silence. Evan Allee love languages


id: genesis-28323
author: Kluger, Alexandra
title: Identity Crisis
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 158
sentence: 9
flesch: 76
cache: cache/genesis-28323.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28323.txt
summary:
  I am not the composition of art— encased and displayed, framed in golden petals that are only seen in my strands of blonde. Nor am I the purity of stainless snow baptist robes be to Law, rather by the Crimson Blood that cleaned me clear.


id: genesis-28951
author: Terhorst, Elizabeth
title: Teenagers
date: 2025
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 320
sentence: 23
flesch: 93
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summary:
  I’m left with bleeding nubs, broken gums and eyebags your favorite color. I think we forgot that teen girls don’t get along especially when you force a wolf into Bo Peep’s clothing.


id: genesis-28311
author: Wilson, Ashley
title: The Righteous
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 222
sentence: 17
flesch: 94
cache: cache/genesis-28311.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28311.txt
summary:
  We perched there, perfect rows of deep blue polos and pressed khakis. I would pick the dried dribbles of candle wax from the pew till my fingers turned raw, anything to distract from the drone of a sermon not meant for me.


id: genesis-28944
author: Guzman, Dayanara
title: Threads of Peace
date: 2025
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 156
sentence: 15
flesch: 92
cache: cache/genesis-28944.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28944.txt
summary:
  Biting into caramel drizzled apples, peace rushes to my cheeks. Placing its fingers on ivory keys, peace plays Chopin’s Nocturnes.


id: genesis-29000
author: Saorrono, Elena
title: Floodland
date: 2025
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 214
sentence: 6
flesch: 61
cache: cache/genesis-29000.pdf
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summary:
  This is the way it was Night reflecting up from the shimmering asphalt Firing glints of embers back into crystal clear windows In the passenger’s eyes, all was calm Driving through the terror was a different story “No harm will come your way” No harm does not make the driver any calmer White knuckles gripping the wheel, Steering the two into the dreary, drenched oblivion With no qualms other than why “Any time, just raise your arms above the flood”


id: genesis-29004
author: Miller, Levi
title: Punk Was Dead
date: 2025
pages: 29
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 4941
sentence: 665
flesch: 98
cache: cache/genesis-29004.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-29004.txt
summary:
  BLAKE’S ROOM IN HER APARTMENT — AFTER MIDNIGHT BLAKE DEAN (23 years old, cynical journalist bent on finding truth over sen- sation, and facts over superstition) wakes up in her bed, a sleeping bag on an air mattress. ASTER BLAKE (CONT’D)


id: genesis-28317
author: Cassetty, Christopher
title: Mania, and her Beautiful Countenance
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 96
sentence: 2
flesch: 54
cache: cache/genesis-28317.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28317.txt
summary:
  105 You were even more beautiful with those manic eyes, so bright and refulgent, I never dared think a more beautiful grey, and even when you stared at me with such distaste and— hate, I couldn’t help, in frustration, but love you, and I still do, though I haven’t met with your soul in quite some time; it makes me wonder— was it ever just your eyes, or the damaged soul I saw inside, that made me love you more than I ever thought to love myself. Christopher Cassetty Mania, and her Beautiful Countenance


id: genesis-28970
author: Hembree, Eris
title: Southern Sweet
date: 2025
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 110
sentence: 5
flesch: 79
cache: cache/genesis-28970.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28970.txt
summary:
  Ever present on my back Seen as the heat of the Southern God’s gaze My skin burns a sinner’s red A carcinogenic weight of judgment Spreads beneath my peeling shell It’s corruption has long since set in Mold creeps across the pitcher’s surface 125125 A pitcher of black tea Bitter but refreshing Six spoons of sugar Tastes so saccharine I drank so deeply Of that Southern sweet tea


id: genesis-28950
author: Rump, Alicia
title: A Fine Line
date: 2025
pages: 12
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 5240
sentence: 436
flesch: 95
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txt: txt/genesis-28950.txt
summary:
  What did they think of Ryan wrestling with his dad to keep him from the wheel, now that his siblings were scared and obedient in the backseat? But so was Alex’s comment that Ryan should fuck off back to Bloomington, that once their mom arrived their family didn’t need him.


id: genesis-28306
author: McVeigh, Kayla
title: Two Boars (best of)
date: 2024
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 777
sentence: 85
flesch: 94
cache: cache/genesis-28306.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28306.txt
summary:
  I keep reworking the same sections of long dark hair. Throwing softened strands of long dark hair behind my shoulders, I can now place such an everyday thing back on the shelf.


id: genesis-28327
author: Hunsader, Clayton
title: How to Open a Can of Nothing.
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 174
sentence: 19
flesch: 78
cache: cache/genesis-28327.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28327.txt
summary:
  Everything exists strictly within observation, but that begs the question What’s observing it? Clayton Hunsader How to Open a Can of Nothing. The only guarantee for life is Death.


id: genesis-28941
author: Miller, Levi
title: Pineapple Chunks
date: 2025
pages: 10
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3400
sentence: 263
flesch: 93
cache: cache/genesis-28941.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28941.txt
summary:
  Patrick shrugs and says, “I thought you’d be too tired for a strip club.” The only thing that stopped Link from slamming the door on Patrick’s sad face was the energy it would take.


id: genesis-28968
author: Kile, Kim
title: Generations
date: 2025
pages: 1
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mime: application/pdf
words: 171
sentence: 7
flesch: 74
cache: cache/genesis-28968.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28968.txt
summary:
  The hallucinations start before your words are gone, stinging accusations of affairs and lies, paranoid visions of being followed by secret agents, hate-filled rants you scream but don’t recall, your love-filled marriage a distant memory while Alzheimer’s sprouts, blocking love. Golf shirts line the same wall, a pastel rainbow of tags hanging from unworn sleeves, saved for a someday that never comes, the golf courses never played again, as the roots of the disease take hold.


id: genesis-28256
author: Kile, Kim
title: How Still We See
date: 2024
pages: 11
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 5181
sentence: 278
flesch: 87
cache: cache/genesis-28256.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28256.txt
summary:
  Together, Kate, Tully, John, and Dr. Hanson brought baby Teddy into the world and into Tully’s waiting arms. Tell Ollie I’m on my way, and I can’t wait for him to show me his picture.” KATE


id: genesis-28938
author: Weaver, Gabriella
title: Fighting Your Memory
date: 2025
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1641
sentence: 112
flesch: 92
cache: cache/genesis-28938.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28938.txt
summary:
  Though I think that type of big sister would have remembered more than I do. I wasn’t very old when Mom sat me down and told me that I would soon be a big sister.


id: genesis-28281
author: Dixon, Saloni
title: pondering a black girl’s* suicide
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 113
sentence: 6
flesch: 93
cache: cache/genesis-28281.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28281.txt
summary:
  Beneath the sky a garden blue stalks my name I forget this kind of fire strikes black bodies into shit Oh friends wild until we are free set us afire again. 25 don’t tell nobody she’s dancing on beer cans and shingles and bones don’t tell a soul have we gone crazy?


id: genesis-28319
author: Surdzial, Eliza
title: Apology for a Dissociative State of Mind
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 165
sentence: 21
flesch: 87
cache: cache/genesis-28319.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28319.txt
summary:
  You’re a robot wearing human skin, clouded eyes and automated dances. The End’s guttural scream fallen silent on silly straw ears.


id: genesis-28258
author: Sickmeier, Christian
title: How to Dragon, for any curious fire-breathing, winged serpents out there
date: 2024
pages: 2
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 744
sentence: 57
flesch: 99
cache: cache/genesis-28258.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28258.txt
summary:
  Not because you enjoy it, of course, it’s just how dragons get off the ground. Dragons are always north of people.


id: genesis-29021
author: Allee, Evan
title: The Intricacies and Eccentricities of Loving a Necromancer
date: 2025
pages: 8
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 2921
sentence: 236
flesch: 83
cache: cache/genesis-29021.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-29021.txt
summary:
  Graveyards have provided ample stock, and bone carving has become a hobby out of necessity. He dejectedly, not for his own sake, but mine, resigned himself to the wil- derness for hours at a time, foraging for mushrooms and miscellaneous bones, transplanting what he had found miles out into my own yard.


id: genesis-28958
author: Nigh, Mack
title: In the Gales I See My Fate
date: 2025
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 1700
sentence: 121
flesch: 95
cache: cache/genesis-28958.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28958.txt
summary:
  I will not try to predict which ones will be happy to find stability, and which ones will be so used to the wind that, the second they land on safe ground, they will panic and shriek and plead to not be left there. And I love you, earth beneath me, the being I did not know I needed.


id: genesis-28967
author: Garris, Hayden
title: Dinner at Fabbro’s
date: 2025
pages: 11
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 3976
sentence: 486
flesch: 97
cache: cache/genesis-28967.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28967.txt
summary:
  Hank nodded without making eye contact. Hank always stood outside, begging for money with a Best Dad Ever coffee mug.


id: genesis-28277
author: Hoppel, Maggie
title: Do you still go down to Cicero Creek?
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 190
sentence: 12
flesch: 95
cache: cache/genesis-28277.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28277.txt
summary:
  Do you stuff your pockets with sparkly rocks your mom won’t begrudge past the porch? Do you get leeches and laugh secrets into discarded Diet Coke cans?


id: genesis-29006
author: Chastain, Jaylee
title: Hopeless Songs to the Solar System
date: 2025
pages: 4
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 715
sentence: 52
flesch: 85
cache: cache/genesis-29006.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-29006.txt
summary:
  Saturn No intention of big rings, I suppose I knew from the start. Not even Olympus Mons can compare To cratered communication days you deal.


id: genesis-28963
author: Allee, Evan
title: This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Your Land
date: 2025
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 156
sentence: 13
flesch: 92
cache: cache/genesis-28963.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28963.txt
summary:
  Advocate for the muzzled congregates, degenerates, Miscreants; the poor, confused, brainwashed kids. Maybe they Won’t have to, but maybe that’s wishful thinking.


id: genesis-28284
author: Wilson, Ashley
title: Ode to my Pilot G-2 07 pen
date: 2024
pages: 1
extension: .pdf
mime: application/pdf
words: 93
sentence: 7
flesch: 94
cache: cache/genesis-28284.pdf
txt: txt/genesis-28284.txt
summary:
  Your flowing ink a river, bringing life to the words that sprout into sycamore groves. Ashley Wilson Ode to my Pilot G-2 07 pen


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