"Therapy" by Mather Schneider
I dreamed I was washing my hands and the skin started coming off my fingers until my finger-bones were exposed. I cried for my mother,...
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Jun 25, 20231 min read
"Me and my boy watching the dead comedian on the Channel 4 panel show" by Lucy Goldring
When the dead comedian does his bit, I always laugh too hard. Secretly I’m welling up, thinking of his wife and kids; thinking of myself....
May 28, 20239 min read
"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...
Apr 30, 202317 min read
"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, 202320 min read
"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, 20236 min read
"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, 202313 min read
"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, 20231 min read
"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, 20235 min read
"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, 20236 min read
"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, 202313 min read
"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, 20235 min read
"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, 202312 min read
"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, 20234 min read
"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, 20232 min read
"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, 20231 min read
"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, 20232 min read
"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, 202312 min read
"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, 20223 min read
“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, 20226 min read
“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...
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