Realization is
a hard coconut on your
head—leaves a red lump.
Realization is
a hard coconut on your
head—leaves a red lump.
Sonia Chintha is an Indian American writer who lives in the Washington DC area. She blogs, writes poetry, and fiction. She is also an English teacher who believes that our experiences teach us more than any test. She is the founder and co-editor of Good Little Girls.




When I was twenty-three years, my boyfriend at the time broke up with me via text message. It said: “I don’t know if I can

Illustration by Kelly Cole A Cracked Pomegranate by Rosa Parhizkar “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there”
Today I saw with my two eyes, what privilege sounds like, Like cannot see past my nose, like can’t have empathy, like can’t see the