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The IR Podcast: 3. LGBTQ+ Teenage Years

Happy pride month and welcome back to the IR podcast brought to you by The Incandescent Review, a non-profit teen-run literary magazine!...

Shanghai

You miss it, the only city you’ve ever known. Oriental Tower like redwood forest, limbs crackling with unspoken words. Try again to enter...

A Letter To My Past Self (As a Writer)

Dear thirteen-year-old me, After losing your stuffed elephant and best friend, you brought a giant notebook to middle school and wrote...

The Problem With the Gifted & Talented Program

When I was younger, school always came naturally to me. By the time I was in preschool, I could recite all of my multiplication tables up...

Social Media and COVID-19: Taking a Critical Approach

As fear of COVID-19 is instilled in many, it is important to maintain a critical eye towards information shared through social media.

A Pandemic Within a Pandemic

“My husband won’t let me leave the house.” What can now be referred to as a “pandemic within a pandemic,” governments are witnessing a...

An Honest Mistake - Mating Ritual (ft. Lizzy Land)

We are only machinery by association yet violin strings ripple my forearms, cutting deep enough that bone is a lightening sky.

“You Do You,” Quarantine Style

About two weeks into being cooped up inside my house, I received word from some of my friends that they were following Chloe Ting’s ab...

Easy.

It was easy. Silver blade draws a trembling line and slices past awning marzipan smooth skin. Cherry jam flows over icing painting supple...