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Apple Fritter and Ginseng Tea

Love, according to the movies your mother watched in high school, is serenading your girlfriend with a marching band on the soccer field...

Eternal Grace

May we join hands around the dinner table to pray for our kids who are running across the kitchen so fast we can only catch them...

to trump [verb]

rust erodes from the waves roiling against it, kids who throw themselves into the surf chirping like happy crows y vendedores de helado...

Prose

Apple Fritter and Ginseng Tea

Love, according to the movies your mother watched in high school, is serenading your girlfriend with a marching band on the soccer field...

in Red

It’s 10:32 PM on a Wednesday night. We are already in bed — dishes washed, teeth brushed, matching pink and blue sleep dresses...

Art

For "Stained Pearl & Opal"

This piece was inspired by "Stained Pearl and Opal" a Poem by Dominic Anaya Gulaya

Tearing

To Be Lost By Your Side / Slow

To Be Lost By Your Side / Slow a photo by Chris Keohanam

Updates and Announcements

About COT Submissions

To our Collections of Transience Community, Earlier in the year, some of you may have noticed that the Collections of Transience team closed submissions for creative work submitted through DuoTrope to be published on our website. This decision came about as a result of our desire to create a new, more organized avenue for publication that aligns with our longer term goals for Collections of Transience. As such, two of our staff and board members, Grace and JP, are starting a