Nonfiction
In the Petrified Forest
Love is relativistic like that. It can dilate the world to the sharp intake of half a breath, the space between parted lips, the incremental uptick of temperature as two forms share heat. It makes it all stretch into the infinite.
Friendship: A Haiku
Cynthia Gralla's piece "Friendship: A Haiku" appears in Issue 61: Beginnings and Endings.
White Coat, Black Habit
Walter Robinson's piece "White Coat, Black Habit" appears in Issue 60: At Sea.
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The Waking is an online literary magazine and a part of the Ruminate creative community that houses high-quality literary writing about what it’s like to be human. We are interested in short-form prose and image-text hybrid work. This art can be beautiful, it can be strange, we just ask that it feels true.