‘It Began In Sweetness, Ended In Scabs’ by Maggie Wolff

Sunset Colourway, Aoteoroa
by Amanda McLeod

It Began In Sweetness, Ended In Scabs


Maggie Wolff is a queer writer of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Black Fox Literary Magazine, The Lascaux Review, Saw Palm, and Qu Literary Magazine. She is working on her first poetry collection, which follows three generations of women as they navigate depression, addiction, and suicide. She is a poetry candidate in the MFA creative writing program at the University of Central Florida.


Amanda McLeod is an Australian creative with a passion for quiet wild places. She loves to take her work outside and can often be found writing or painting in the trees. You can read her work in many places, most recently The Daily Drunk Mag and Failed Haiku. Catch her on Twitter and Instagram @AmandaMWrites or via her website AmandaMcLeodWrites.com