Author: Sumac Lit Mag
Issue 1 (25) Issue 1 Poetry (14) Issue 1 Prose (11) Issue 2 (25) Issue 2 Poetry (19) Issue 2 Short Story (6) Issue 3 (31) Issue 3 Poetry (21) Issue 3 Prose (10) Issue 4 (25) Issue 4 Poetry (13) Issue 4 Prose (11) Letter from the Editors (4) News (1) Poetry (66) Prose (32) Short Story (6)
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Learning to Lean into Anxiety
Sometimes I can sense anxiety attacks before they come. That familiar pressure starts building up in my chest, like someone dropped a brick straight…
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The Construction of a Mother
Adults love to say children know nothing. Children love to believe they hold the knowledge of the world in their little hands. Personally, I…
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Home for Christmas
Christmas was going to be different this year. Of course, Sylvia had decided it would be the moment she’d told her dad she would…
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The Infestation
The Outside Mr. and Mrs. Davidson lived in a bungalow in a cul-de-sac, right across from a house occupied by Ms. Ray and her…
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The Ants in the Walls
*Formatting best viewed on desktop* James Brennan is a second year English Major, concentrating in Creative Writing at Carleton University. James has fallen in…
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A Lifetime with Words
Lillian hears a voice but doesn’t know where it is coming from. Before this interruption, she was enjoying a late afternoon mug of tea…
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Learning Without Apology: On IPV, Knowledge, and Becoming
What Grows in Isolation I did not expect the world to be so quiet when I finally felt ready to step back into it.…
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Bus Stop Ballerina
O, you sly thing! Scooting up to me with cane and grace you spoke, hushed mumbled mutterings, you spoke of the Dalai Lama, and…
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Prismatic
Track 1 – Suburbia Muddy swamp water stares me in the face, my reflection suffocated by petroleum-thick sludge. Funny how it used to seem…
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Sand Castles
When I was young, I drew sculptures on the beach, holding tight against reckoning waves, In bold ignorance of all to come they stood,…