Author: Corinne Coleman
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Waiting for May 18th
Featured Artwork: Erdy Earning a degree is more than just about earning a piece of paper. The blood, sweat and tears college students put in every year to reach the pinnacle moment of graduation is the ultimate achievement. On May 18, I was supposed to have that moment. My journey…
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Dementophobia
I don’t really like to think or talk about my greatest fear. Why discuss something I’ll never know? I’d rather talk about anything else, honestly. Like the time I ran to my grandmother in tears, Because my mother took the training wheels off my bike. Or the time my brother…
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Will I see you, Tomorrow?
Will I see you, Tomorrow? You keep me sane — how could I forget? Maybe it’s the pain that hovers over my soul that’s in the way. My judgment is clouded, my mind flooded — is the breakthrough coming? I doubt it. Nothing. All I see is nothing, all I…
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PMDD: The Acronym That Saved My Life
I was sixteen-years-old when my body decided it was ready to complete its transition into womanhood. My face was slick and shiny with oil, uterus irritatingly contorting but I had a stockpile of pads — I was ready! Or so I thought. There is only so much they taught us…