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A collaged image of an office space appears with various sections of found text. On the top left, a clipped fragment of text says, “Breaking through the glass ceiling” in red ink on white paper. A few lines below, in large white letters on a black background, a clipped fragment of text reads: “What ceiling?”. Below and to the left, the text reads: “Reinvent Ceiling Design,” and at the bottom in large capital letters: “Freedom.”

27 Jul Who Is Zooming Who? Rituals of Shame in the White Academic Institution

Posted at 13:04h in Creative, Creative Prose 4.0, Home Creative 4.0, Issue 4 Summer 2021

By Chiseche Salome Mibenge: An elite white academic institution in California has convened a virtual workshop on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) for a cohort...

26 Jul You Stinker

Posted at 19:53h in Creative Prose, Creative Prose 4.0, Issue 4 Summer 2021

By Claire Dee: There were plenty of kids we made fun of in high school — the girl with the face tattoo; the foreign exchange...

pencil and ink drawing of white houses with red people inside

26 Jul Excerpt of HOW I PLAYED MY CARDS

Posted at 16:18h in Creative Prose, Creative Prose 4.0, Issue 4 Summer 2021

By Nicole Harkin: The front yard of the house we bought in Lebanon, Illinois, needed a lot of work. The driveway wasn’t quite level. Every...

A castle in a clearing in front of the wooded hills of the Scottish highlands.

26 Jul The Stone

Posted at 12:21h in Creative Prose, Creative Prose 4.0, Issue 4 Summer 2021

By Ben Libman: At the top of the hill whose slope is bisected by the Living Stone, there lies a ruined castle that once belonged...

Album page containing a drawing of a black butterfly on a twig with flowers

26 Jul A Personal Transcript from the Samuel Oschin Planetarium Showing: OCEANS OF GRAVITY

Posted at 08:19h in Creative Prose, Creative Prose 4.0, Issue 4 Summer 2021

By Noelle Marie Falcis: Space is a concept that most can never understand; Autumn and I, we know it well. We tussled with it floating...

a photograph of a tree with a blue-grey filter and blurred background

24 Jul Failure of Trees

Posted at 17:12h in Creative Prose, Creative Prose 4.0, Home Creative 4.0, Issue 4 Summer 2021

By Penina Eilberg-Schwartz: It's strange to have the idea on the boat where there are no books, no letters — only water and the different...

24 Jul Some Sort of Hostage Situation

Posted at 17:11h in Creative, Creative Prose 4.0, Home Creative 4.0, Issue 4 Summer 2021

By Stefanie Doucette: Like most Tuesdays, we spend the night out at our favorite Divisadero Street dive bar, swapping dirty stories for fun over $3...