High School Sweethearts
By: Basilia Vega I’m investigating old photos to find the day, moment, or night that I made you unhappy. I never had much to offer in the beginning and yet […]
Tag Archives: love
Poetry: All My Friends
By: Mar Curran Part 1: You I know you don’t got friends like my friends, friends in the backseat of moving boxes holding your muscle mass close while we all […]
Wine: A Family’s Understanding
By: Patrick Gill I drink whiskey, my family drinks wine. We’re from California. California, where the legend of the wino is buried deep in the Napa Valley; California, where people […]
After the Marathon: What I Want You to Know
By: Lindsay Popper Today was a muted, gentle, weird, painful, confusing, hopeful, exhausting, beautiful, hard day. Classes still happened at my seminary, a mile away from the bombing, and no […]
![[image: one panel comic of a brown bear and a white dog. The dog has a paw placed on the bear. "What...are you doing?" the bear asks. The dog responds, "Showing you I love you!"]](http://inourwordsblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/2013-03-261.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1)
Ragscamps: wuv
by: In Our Words Staff Ragscamps is a new series of drawings for In Our Words. Written by Patrick Gill and illustrated by Jessica Neria, Ragscamps is part of In […]
Don’t Hate Rob Portman: His Change is Strength
by: Riley Thomas Until several weeks ago, Republican Senator Rob Portman opposed same-sex marriage. After he publically revealed his change of heart, there has been a backlash from the gay community. Many […]
It Gets Butter: They Think It’s Magic, That’s What It Feels Like, Bread
by: Lindsay Popper Bea’s mother pulled a tupperware out of the fridge door and scraped a small handful of dough out of it into a bowl. As her hands worked […]
My Brother: On a Mystery Only We Can Solve
by: Caitlin Bergh “Are you up?” my brother whispers from his bed, which is just across the coffee table from where I am curled up under an array of diverse […]
I Made You This Mix: Non-Mushy Love Songs
by: Hillary Tinerella Welcome back to I Made You This Mix, where In Our Words writers make mixtapes for the world, this edition is a rollicking good romp through the […]
Poetry: Loose Joints
by: Melanie Sue Tuck your knees into your chest And make your body smaller than my heart. Keep squeezing your shins in tighter As if to show me how you […]
