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The 2019 #METOO Trigger Warning Nonfiction Essay Contest \\ Win $500 + Publication

The #MeToo Nonfiction Essay Contest is back! What’s more, our judge is that champion of #MeToo memoir writers, Tracy Strauss! Deadline for Submissions is April ...

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Blowjobs by F. M. Walsh

We avoid their touch by pissing our pants on purpose. Boys don’t want to fondle girls who piss their pants. Fucking babies. We hide. We find a way out of the wo...

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They Don’t Live in Dallas by Anna Mullins

Sometimes you lie so much you begin to believe what you say. Sometimes you don’t even have to say the lies out loud to believe them.

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The Desk By Sara J. Sutler-Cohen

My room was the base of operations for Dad’s drug dealing enterprise, a career he must have selected—I imagine in hindsight—to sustain his life as a musician