Seven plus seven.
The rug is yanked from under us.
Tomorrow, we stand again.
Seven plus seven.
The rug is yanked from under us.
Tomorrow, we stand again.
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.




Arms out in a T-shape, I walk stable as hell across a tight rope; it’s new, it’s old, I should have mastered this prance, but
Strolling through old stomping grounds, I hold hands with the twenty-nine year old me, now thirty-nine. She had just said yes to marriage; she had

today I sat at a table
rectangular in shape
long and wide
with seven white people in power
next to the other person of color at the table