"How to Be a Winsor Girl" by Tricia Elam Walker
Some self-labeled “patriots” and other conservatives rage against truthful and complete history and access to books that explore and...
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- Apr 30
- 17 min
"Libations for the Metal Gods" by Steve Passey
The Gods of the Riff are inscrutable. They hear neither prayer nor plea. They brook no rebuke. They bestow their favor where they will,...
- Apr 2
- 20 min
"An American Study" by Anna Nguyen
1. I wore the same green, sleeveless jumpsuit two days in a row. We had landed in another temporary home, this time in a small rural town...
- Apr 2
- 6 min
"Billy Made My Crotch Tingle" by Elaina Battista-Parsons
A perfect storm happened in 1990 for the sensory-me. I was beginning to understand what being horny meant. There’s no need for me to be...
- Apr 2
- 13 min
"Who Cares About Choi’s Tacos" by Jennifer Jeanne McArdle
In 2011, you couldn’t find many places in Seoul, South Korea selling Mexican food, authentic or Americanized. Choi’s Tacos, a small,...
- Mar 5
- 1 min
"Nagasaki Sky" by WA Hawkins
Despite the burns on his face and forearms, his ruptured eardrums, Tsutomu Yamaguchi navigated shattered buildings, melted flesh,...
- Mar 5
- 5 min
"Sick for Shakespeare" by Noah Good
The summer before my senior year of high school, I was in a youth production of Measure for Measure (one of the Shakespeare plays that...
- Feb 19
- 6 min
"Safe spaces with sharp edges: lessons in fearing the worst" by Jane Ayres
Dorothy, my paternal grandmother, was a worrier. I grew up in the ’60s and ’70 when folk who had anxious tendencies were simply called...
- Feb 19
- 13 min
"Reps" by Steve Passey
The gym I went to was old-school. No internet/wireless. No air-conditioning. It had racks and plates and bars and dumbbells that went to...
- Feb 19
- 5 min
"A Time Not Now" by Janet Clare
A month ago, I was in Los Angeles and my husband was in New York on his way home from Madrid and Paris. He’s a writer, fancied himself a...
- Feb 19
- 12 min
"The Little Monster Inside Me" by Karen Browne
An MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scanner has a little secret that only those who’ve been scanned know about. The time spent waiting...
- Feb 5
- 4 min
"Visitor Centers" by Tyler Dempsey
In my fancy Park Service clothes. Stupid hat and everything. First day “opening” the Visitor Center. With COVID, this means unfolding...
- Jan 22
- 2 min
"Tundra" by Wendy Newbury
When it’s all said and done, and the wild flowers have bloomed, mother forgets. At the moment, she oozes with passion from the thrill of...
- Jan 22
- 1 min
"One True Sentence" by Sherry Cassells
Yesterday was one of those snow-stormy I’m-not-going-out Saturdays so I built a fire and started writing a letter, longhand, but it came...
- Jan 22
- 2 min
"Winter Pastoral" by Selena Langner
The gas station is holding a squirrel cooking contest (prize: a plaque and a taxidermied squirrel trophy). It’s wearing a little flannel...
- Jan 22
- 12 min
"Uphill, Both Ways" by Jay Parr
It’s like waking up in a goddamn freezer. I reach out from under my mound of blankets to shut off the alarm clock and the air spills in...
- Dec 26, 2022
- 3 min
“Let’s Play Barbie” by Courtenay Schembri Gray
“Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.” — Allen Ginsberg I look down and see a smiling cut, layered like an onion; a red...
- Nov 27, 2022
- 6 min
“The Seven Second Event” by Andrea Lawler
It’s the last weekend in September, and it’s warm for a fall night in North Dakota. I’m in the backseat of a Ford Zephyr, losing my...
- Nov 13, 2022
- 6 min
“Notebook Fragments: 2018-2022” by HLR
Content warnings: Mental illness, suicidality, self-harm, disordered eating, addiction, death, sexual assault. Notebook Fragments:...
- Nov 13, 2022
- 4 min
"Reasons I Cried During Pregnancy Part I and II*" by Melissa Flores Anderson
Reasons I Cried During Pregnancy Part I and II* Written in 2017 Part I I tend to be a bit of a crybaby already so it shouldn't have come...
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