Main Squeeze Literary JournalWe are Southern Oregon University's student-run literary magazine organized by Creative Writing students! For the 2024 issue, we are looking for works of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and visual art. Submit today!
maybe the only reasonyou mostly like white boysis because they’re the only onesyou got to read aboutbefore you knew what boys were Chaya Chudasama is a creative writing and gender studies student currently earning her bachelor’s degree at Southern Oregon University. She writes stories about queer women of color and poems about mental health and […]
There’s a little girl I know,never the same age two days in a row,and all she wantsis to color and nap. I hide her away most days:she takes up too much time.So I keep her in her roomwith her pink unicorn toyand muted cartoons. She’ll tell you that she’s in charge,that she keeps me in […]
She does not want to be here. It’s dark here. It’s dark here and light there and really the light looks so much better. It looks like something she’s never seen, never felt. Like buzz and fluffand all the bullshit she doesn’t have but thinks maybe she wants. Chaya Chudasama is a creative writing and gender studies student […]
I’ve been spending more and more time writing onLEGAL YELLOW NOTEPADSInstead of my private journal latelyAnd I don’t know why. Is it because I don’t want the journal’s Neat,Pristine pages to be taintedWith sad,Angry thoughts? That the journal is only meantFor good feelings,For “how was your day?’And “good, you?”Even if it wasn’t good? That the thoughts […]
it is in the crumbled soil between my fingersi find peacelight iridescentthin in the way ice iscold in the way glass issilent in the way sound is“i have been looking for you for so long,” i say“everywhere,” i say“ever since she took you”it stares and falls with the soilglacieri digand digand dig and dig and […]
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