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“Night Rooms” Examines the Horror in the Everyday
Reading Night Rooms transported me to the dim orange light of my childhood bedroom. At fifteen, I spent my nights...
A New Take on Fairytales: A Review of Remapping Wonderland
I, like many people, was raised on fairytales—specifically, the Western fairytales that dominated my elementary education. By the time I...
To Marie Antoinette, from a New Mother Who Didn’t Get to Stay in Bed 18 Days after Giving Birth
And there were stairs and they were steep and had to be climbed to soak in the tub, to lie...
Announcing our 2021 Virtual Reading!
So to Speak is thrilled to announce that on Sunday, April 18, 2021, at 8:00 PM EST, we’ll be holding...
Bi Joy as Resistance
“LGBTQIA+ folx are not a monolith. We deserve to hear more stories than we have been told. We deserve narrative...
We Come Together
like a tapestry of worn threads. Our feet carry us here: a pilgrimage of shared suffering. Greetings are made, voices...
Strange Fruit, 2020
content warning: lynching, police brutality A man was lynched today And like Strange Fruit He swung in the breeze But...
Fast
Maple, skin, girl I hope your insides Tastes as sweet as the syrup I imagine. You were a symbol of...
On “Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl”: A Conversation with Jeannie Vanasco
Content warning: mentions of sexual assault I first met Jeannie Vanasco in the fall of 2016, about a year before...
From the Archives: “Endlessly”
“Endlessly” originally appeared in the 2019 contest issue of So to Speak. Content warning: mentions of abuse. Endlessly He...
Leaving My Abuser: My Adoptive Father
The police are not coming. My birth mother severely punished, Holt Korea protects my birth father still and shames me,...
Conversation & Creation: Four Fiction Authors on their COVID-Era Writing Process
On a Sunday afternoon in September, I find myself with a precious thing: several hours of uninterrupted time to write....