Language as sign system may well belong to the mind, but language as pure sound belongs to the body. It burrows under the skin, seeding amongst sinew, fat and muscle; sine waves converted into affect by way of the flesh.
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i’ve been thinking about high school way too much. like, more than a normal amount.
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She thumps and she yawns and she’s your cat cutting love into sliced apples where the seeds spill your name.
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The internet is cursed and is a curse.
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use wet hands and perform / quickly / you want to be generous / (thank you!)
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You are humming beneath your breath on the walk home, hoping the streetlights hear you. The night is cold but crickets trill in trees, high a capella vibrations that the wind carries with it. At the end of the street, motel sheets scratch against hipbones and hushed conversations huddle like ghosts. Maybe you’ll even press your face against the vending machine just to hear that low, fluorescent buzz.
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This is good milk. It has warmed to body temperature quickly, as has the bathtub, so it feels like sitting in nothing or in amniotic fluid.
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Voiceworks Online wants your digital writing pitches! Whether you’re an experienced coder or brand new to digital writing, we are here to help!
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An elliptical optical illusion, like how the moon is actually just cashews and vinegar and something else. Garlic, I think. It, probably, has a crush on me? Big rocks in space don’t have hands to hold, but we’ll figure something out.
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Along with the rage burns desire. Or maybe, desire is too soft a word. It is a molten, bubbling righteousness. In your bones and in your fingernails there is a reverberating sense of urgent need.
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Perhaps the greatest strength of online communities is that, by tuning into critical discourse that is community-led and community-oriented, there’s an opportunity to gain greater insight into ourselves.
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In this new column, members of the Voiceworks Editorial Committee will be highlighting creative roles, processes and communities within the publishing industry and beyond that are less discussed in traditional publishing education. For our first piece in this series, Adalya Nash Hussein looks at platforms focused on publishing and developing writers of colour.
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The Romans defeated us but we were reborn: in cathedrals and Romantic poetry, in Bauhaus and Lestat, in teenagers heavy with black lipstick and eyeliner. If you made potions in the sandpit, grated acorns against concrete, pried itchybombs for their fluff, you may be one of us.
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While those with money are given the time to deal with the pain of loss—a trauma that has been observed and recorded since as long as people could record—the poor are expected to mourn with their teeth bared, fending off vultures with hearts haemorrhaging.
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The queerest re-imagining of Frankenstein yet.
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