elementia

PTA to AA

By Annie Barry

She stood in front of a mirror

Clean and sober thinking about how she feels taller than her own reflection

Then she took an injection


Rubble

By Ayush Pandit

They’ve run out of garbage bags to use as body bags.

Power lines cracked in half like splintered pencils are strewn through the streets

neighborhoods panic as the ground forgets what being solid is again


Time It Takes to Sober Up

By Emme Mackenzie

“What is one factor that affects the Blood Alcohol Level and is an extremely important factor (in order to ‘sober up’)?”


In my final moments

By Sankara “Le prince heritier” Olama-Yai

I hear the gunshot, I do not see 

The bullet but I know it’s coming 

Aimed to perforate my skull 

They say your life flashes, once death’s 

Shadow is on your tail and grips you in