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Issue VI: Dreams of a Caged Bird

January 2024

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"I know why the caged bird sings."
                                                        ⸺ Maya Angelou 

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The society we live in is structured in such a way that everybody is chained or caged in some way or the other. Maybe it's a personal restriction, or maybe there are other factors in your community. Maybe you've been chained for a while and it all feels so much and you just want to be free. 

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This issue is for you. 

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In this issue, we asked our singing caged birds to tell us their dreams. We asked them to talk to us about what chained them and what bogged them down. We asked for all those fears and worries, hopes and dreams. 

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We asked them why they sang. 

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We asked them why they dreamt.

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Issue V was about embracing those childish fantasies and whimsical delusions. Issue VI, we wanted them to embrace those dreams in reality. Find joy in our real world, and find those reasons to live for. Dream big, dream wide, and dream free. 

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Contributors

Poetry

Prose

Afra

March

Cairo Evans

the musings of a worm

Ellen Alfredson

Lovely little bird, dream on dream on!

Genevieve Laprise

In The Dark

Sumo

Caged spark within

Kyra Allyson

starved

Phoebe B. H. Mercury

The road is long

Creative Non-Fiction

Heetal Binwani

Life Cycles

Art

Kate Waters

Sandbox

Fatima Shad

Caged Lovebird

Devon Webb

My Dignity

Tatum Bunker

I Plucked My Own Feathers

Michelan "Mi-I-Mi" Le'Monier

When Did You Last Look At Heaven?

Elisabeth D.

Watching you from afar

Overcomer Olajide

Dreams in Broken

Bottles

Shu J. Liu

dreams of a high-achieving dove, yet no more than a pigeon

Alex Gemstones

Barricade Boys

Serennus - V. Morina

The colors of dreams

T. A. Jones

Write You Into Oblivion;

Black Phoenix

Cheryl Tan

Rainbow Sister

Zac Hudson

The parakeet dreams of being a cassowary

Ellie Coul

Tick, Tick, Tick

Leslie Teel

Exploding Kittens and the Experiential Ferris Wheel

Adia Reynolds

So Falls the Cuckoo Bird

Ayumi Inoue

Outside the Zoetrope

Owl

The Bird and the Girl

Roukia Ali

Laney is Leaving

Varshha (Staff Contribution)

Trapped In My Mind

Prose

Lauren D. Fulter

Cheeseburgers and Dragons

Kathryn Harry

The Boy and the

Butterfly Net

Arianna Kanji

My Perceived Affliction

Maryam Hedayat

Drained Success

Alice

An Ode to the Lost

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Featured Indie Authors

Lucy Gould

The Rescure

Yageen Faiz

Novel Writing Guide

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