"A Greek Odyssey" by Lorraine Murphy
We journeyed for three days and nights, o’er land and sea to the distant island of Crete, ignoring our parents’ concerns. We could have...
- Sep 18
- 2 min
"PRAYER OF INTERCESSION RE: ST. BRIGID" by Shelby Rice
prissing quietly mother's hair frizzing around own jawline—curse your nose unhooked as glasses slip down. you have been asked to watch...
- Sep 18
- 4 min
"Those Damned Birds" by Emmy Teague
We didn’t think anything of it when the chickens started dying. There were always problems with animals hunting our birds. We lived on a...
- Aug 7
- 3 min
“Phone Notes from Dizzying Heights” by Beth Mulcahy
Have you ever watched the sunset at cloud level? Watched it dip below the cloudline while you were right there with it, right there in...
- Aug 7
- 3 min
"There Was A Storm, and Then There Was Us" by Belle Gearhart
We are standing next to the car, and the sky is an open wound, misty and oozing, shades of pink beginning to interrupt the bruised gray....
- Jun 12
- 2 min
“Here’s a Picture of Me” by Patrick McNally
Here’s a picture of me, my parents, and my brother Chris, back in 1982. They are dressed nicely, perhaps for church or some event. I am...
- Jun 12
- 1 min
"Queen of Wrath" by Russell Hehn
My 27-year-old mother is forever blasting down the bubbling asphalt of late-summer Mississippi in a sky-blue 1978 Mercury Cougar—so wide...
- Jun 12
- 3 min
"Stranger in the City" by François Bereaud
Stranger in the City (Abijan, Ivory Coast, 1998) I was unable not to take a second look when I saw them walk through the hotel lobby to...
- May 29
- 6 min
"The Pickup Artist" by C. Ben Stevenson
Lana lit my hair on fire a couple weeks ago trying to light a stogie, so she crinkles her arm when we embrace to avoid a repeat singe....
- May 29
- 3 min
"Incident at Harlem Hospital" by Kendall Johnson
A word from the author: As a trauma therapist I was invited to Harlem Hospital to talk to the ER staff, ambulance crews, and doctors and...
- May 1
- 2 min
"When I Remember How it Felt to be Thirteen" by Beth Mulcahy
I think of the night I decided I couldn’t wait to not be thirteen anymore. It wasn’t a far drive; I only lived a few blocks up the...
- May 1
- 2 min
"Above the Canyon" by François Bereaud
From the sidewalk, my son and I watched the car in the opposite lane slow and execute a three-point turn, evoking a distant memory of...
- May 1
- 1 min
"Fine Black Doctor" by Cassondra Windwalker
Harris was a bare patch in the middle of bigger patch of prairie, but folks were proud of being respectable, hard-working Christians....
- Apr 17
- 7 min
"To Her Coy Mister-ess" by Victoria Leigh Bennett
In the first place, I resented everyone and his neighbor commenting on or even seeming to concern himself with my soul or lack of one....
- Mar 20
- 1 min
"Bunylla Bean" by Levi Faulk
I stuff the happy yellow silken blooms into my pocket, my bunny rabbit’s favorite treat. I let them grow wild in my yard and harvest them...
- Mar 20
- 2 min
"Carry That Weight" by François Bereaud
CW: violence I spent a year wanting to kill a preacher. Inside the mother’s body, a child began to grow. I imagined medieval...
- Feb 20
- 11 min
"UNTITLED" by Lois L. K. Chan
ACT I The preamble. INT. ME - ALWAYS - UP UNTIL NOW I don’t call my mother’s father ’grandpa’. In English or Cantonese, it is a title...
- Feb 20
- 9 min
"Edges of Memory" by Kris Haines-Sharp
Rippling refers to the fact that each of us creates—often without our conscious intent or knowledge—concentric circles of influence that...
- Feb 6
- 2 min
"Burn" by Agatha Sicil
The blood moon eclipse revealed its power on a Thursday night in November. I took the letters journals and stationery that plagued the...
- Jan 2
- 5 min
"Beethoven" by Katie Berger
1. I think often about Beethoven, the 1992 children's movie; a John Hughes creation about a clumsy yet lovable St. Bernard. I remember...