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Katie Brown
Oct 1, 2024
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Bethel Creatives Interviews
Bethel Creatives, no. 16: Katie Bracey
Interview conducted by Katie Brown in the The Crossings’s series on creativity and diversity within Bethel University’s student body. The...
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Teagan Risher
Mar 5, 2024
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The Journey from Poetry to Faith
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Anne Clouse
Mar 5, 2024
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Corbin Greenslade
Mar 5, 2024
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Brianna R. Densmore
Apr 22, 2021
1 min read
Poetry
A Friend?
I’m holding on to my love for you. Even when it hurts. Even when I wonder if you truly love me back. My love is strong, undying, and...
Autumn Owens
Apr 20, 2020
1 min read
Write Something: Weekly Prompt
Rumor Has It
Your poisonous teeth bite my heart, I am already riddled with disease, please don't keep cutting ugly patterns into my back, it hurts...
Claire Prins
Apr 13, 2020
1 min read
Write Something: Weekly Prompt
Time and Your Hand
Most nights it wasn’t difficult To fall asleep. But then again, this Wasn’t most nights. The sun and stars still shine Through my...
Mahalia Gaff
Feb 18, 2020
1 min read
Write Something: Weekly Prompt
Another Time?
Conversation— empty; bland. Time— passing; slowly. Hurry— split, splat. Food— falling from his mouth. Eyes— dropping to my lap. ...
Michelle Moraitis
Feb 9, 2020
2 min read
Write Something: Weekly Prompt
Chugging Away
Smoke smudged the pure blue sky as the train approached like a giant caterpillar inching its way across the countryside, growing in size...
Clay Sidenbender
Dec 19, 2019
1 min read
Write Something: Weekly Prompt
The Blue Dog Democrat Ate My Homework
The canine ate my homework, He shredded it bit by bit; And I worked hard on the Green New Deal, My grandfather just laughed it, A bill...
Clay Sidenbender
Dec 9, 2019
7 min read
Write Something: Weekly Prompt
The Inhuman Exchange
“Will the world ever forgive us for what we’ve done?” John Pendleton wondered aloud, his voice cutting through the howling wind. No one,...
Autumn Owens
Nov 25, 2019
1 min read
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Regrets of a Survivor
I’m sorry I never held your hand when we were huddled in the bomb shelter. I’m sorry that as the toxins filled the air and the ceiling...
Alayna Wort
Nov 18, 2019
1 min read
Write Something: Weekly Prompt
Had I known I was going to have guests at 4am, I would’ve tidied up.
Had I known I was going to have guests At 4am I would have tidied up. Had I known, I was going to have guests at 4am, I would have...
Sumer Schindler
Oct 7, 2019
7 min read
Write Something: Weekly Prompt
My Cancerized Future
It's funny how one views their life. Always pushing things off “until later,” after all, I’ve got all the time in the world. There’s this...
Emily Oliver
Sep 30, 2019
2 min read
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Rock-Paper-Scissors
It was the highest stakes game of rock-paper-scissors ever played. People asked for years to come why Wallace would ever bet so much on...
Emily Oliver
Sep 17, 2019
2 min read
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What I Saw in the Window
I’ve been told I’m paranoid. I mean, not that I’m told much of anything anymore. That’s just another beautiful result of moving to the...
Gabe Jones
Feb 17, 2019
3 min read
Non-Fiction
Three Decisions
I find it rather hard for me to look back on my life and debate on which three decisions I would choose to go back and change. Though I...
Emily Oliver
Dec 4, 2018
1 min read
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Infectious
You call it love but I call it that disease that racks the entire being, an incubation period of how long it takes eyes to meet. Then the...
Sarah Lohroff
Nov 14, 2018
1 min read
Poetry
The Garden
Don’t come too close, you’ll be standing in his spot You’ll trample the roses and marigolds I’ve planted with careful thought Watered...
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