Tag: coming of age

• cancun

  By Tiffany Shull Peterson cash only shared water bottles and teenage egohe leans in she’s pulled awaypeeling posters drooping dangling swaying a noir fantasy filled with smoke and punkbassbeats coy smiles beneath too-black rimmed eyeslove drunk side stage yearning for a glancesweat and noise and insecurity average talent sings off-key as fists punchtheair boys will…

  Tiffany S.

  August 31, 2021

  coming of age, poetry

  coming of age, fiction, poem, poems by women, poetry, women author

• Spit On It

  By: Leah Holbrook Sackett Nancy wailed like any baby when wet or hungry. She grew into her quiet phase. Her Dad said Nancy had a soft mouth, then rained down kisses and praise for keeping a cool head. Dad was a union negotiator for Sweetgum County, he earned his living among the loud and willful.…

  HLWW Featured Author

  October 19, 2020

  Uncategorized

  coming of age, fiction