Note: The following content may be triggering and be considered sensitive content to some readers. This is a trigger warning to let you know that if you are uncomfortable surrounding topics of eating disorders, you may not want to read these poems. Hungry   I don’t want to eat Because I want my stomach to […]

Burgeoning Hunger   Never, ever, let pride get in the way of a good meal – A man with no name   A couple of cheap tricks bought you a quick trip to the promised lands / of fast food, freezer bags, and deep-fried something or others / that filled the half but not the […]

By Brooke Lilek *Chestnut: something repeated to the point of staleness; a trope Phoebe heard a knock on the front door and froze. An extreme reaction for someone who cannot sense death at her doorstep, but that’s Phoebe. She tensed before checking the peephole. She found no one out front though. Phoebe threw the deadbolt […]

By: Ben Sapet In the 1970s, the United Kingdom felt distinct growing pains as the previous decade’s progressive and loosening cultural norms rubbed against a growing reactionary trend of government conservatism and fierce traditionalist social activists. By 1977, British art-rock group Pink Floyd had snapped. That year, they released Animals, a concept album filled to the […]

By Audrey Bowers, Ball State University 2028 – The Change   Nothing can stop me. I’m a survivor of the zombie apocalypse. “Come along Toby,” I say to my dog. My eyes squint to see what this abandoned city might offer me. Toby, my corgi, trails after me through the brick streets of what I […]

by Leah Heim, Ball State University And to think that we complained about that Fort Wayne tournament. None of the parents went. Pendleton to Fort Wayne on a Thursday night? Give me a break. Parents had a hard time going to home matches. Overtime isn’t optional when the droughts last summer exploded food prices, or when […]

Written by Rachael Heffner. I’ve always loved scary things. Movies, video games, stories, you name it. It was no surprise that I found inspiration in BuzzFeed’s, Two Sentence Scary Stories. I read them all, one at a time, loving the chill it gave me up my spine. As I continued on, I read something about […]

Written by Ashley Starling When I arose this morning, I could not see my face. The mirror showed the tiled wall but nothing in my place. Squinted, stretched, squirmed; Still an empty space. I would have puzzled forever but I had not the time to waste.

Written by Jared Lynch Q: Your most recent book revolves around a narrator who becomes trapped in a house haunted with ghosts of himself, and he learns that he died in that house and has always existed there. Would you care to elaborate upon that? A: Yeah. When I was in high school I read […]

Written by Elizabeth Palmer We talk about ghosts like poltergeists in our homes, stacking chairs on tabletops, turning faucets on, creaking up the stairs at night. But ghosts can exist in a multitude of forms. While I have yet to experience anything remotely paranormal or inexplicable, I’ve found that there are ghosts in all the […]