Why I Shaved My Head and Why Other People Should Too - Saya Iki
This essay has to start somewhere, let’s pick a winter’s day in February of 2020. Imagine constantly having the urge to pull your hair...
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- Oct 18, 2020
- 8 min
Double Cover - Renee Nicholson
For some time now, I have been thinking about, and sometimes writing about cover songs. By “writing about cover songs,” I usually mean...
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- Oct 13, 2020
- 2 min
Peaches & Cream - Bailey Henderson
I could have imagined her hand in mine, a storm brewing in the molecules between our fingertips. Her nails, long and manicured, placed on...
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- Oct 6, 2020
- 3 min
This Way Out - Jan Bartelli
For much of my childhood, I lived with my parents and seven siblings in a shabby, wooden tenement in Bridgeport Connecticut. The...
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- Oct 5, 2020
- 4 min
Kelly - Misty Urban
My daughter’s in the backseat as we drive to zoo camp and since she’s old enough now I switch Pandora to my station and the Indigo Girls...
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- Oct 1, 2020
- 2 min
Sea Glass - Elizabeth Lerman
The clouds set in right when I hit the highest height of the wave, the icy water soaking my skin and sending shivers through my head...
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- Sep 29, 2020
- 3 min
Cowboy - Laura Cyphers
Maybe I would always be that resistant five-year-old girl whose sophisticated grandmother forced her into an Easter dress, a shawl, hat,...
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- Sep 27, 2020
- 4 min
Sunrise - Kristine Sahagun
There isn’t a moment in time when I feel safe. It’s a constant battle fighting off triggers coming at me from social media, television...
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- Sep 26, 2020
- 2 min
The Covid Risk Assessment Scale - Cristina Foss
My husband, Kevin, and I started measuring our potential Covid risk in unit of dogs: Dozer, our neighbor’s slobbery mastiff, is the...
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- Sep 25, 2020
- 11 min
On Art & Identity - Molly Dickin
I love reading or listening to stories in music and poetry that write out the dreamscapes that play in my head-- not one that makes any...
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- Sep 24, 2020
- 6 min
How to Keep a Ghost Alive- Hannah Rosenberg
My grandmother never met him. She heard about him, from my mom. I remember holding her hand as she lay in bed after her fall. “Your...
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- Sep 21, 2020
- 3 min
Ten Ways of Looking at My Impending Demise - Julie Benesh
I. STATE OF THE ART Attracted to the heat of inflammation, cats are said to intuitively sense disease. Mine keep sleeping on my appendix,...
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- Sep 13, 2020
- 8 min
A Taste of Honey - Katherine Ryden
As I sat nervously waiting in a trendy Greek restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, an older man walked quickly toward me and sat down in the...
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- Sep 10, 2020
- 10 min
The Metaphysical Diorama of a Fisherman - Tim Harris
“The crabs cut ‘em… or plastic!” I nod understandingly, “Everything that comes to net… ‘s not all fish!” he adds. Delivering at first...
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- Sep 7, 2020
- 3 min
Dear Therapist - Tammy Smith
I haven't seen you in-person for the past four months. It's been approximately 121 days since I counted the steps like sacred breaths it...
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- Sep 6, 2020
- 7 min
City to Country - Daja Wilson
I’ve always felt living in the city has its perks. As a young girl of 12, my mother and I had just moved to the center of Portland, the...
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- Aug 29, 2020
- 13 min
Acre Of Moon - Lou Storey
Parental guidance was redefined in our household. FAMILY was just me, my sister Lynn and our father Punch. Yes, Punch, like the puppet...
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- Aug 23, 2020
- 1 min
Tiny Love Story - Stephanie Parent
After all the kind and cruel words, after the realization that I could never live by his rules, after the anger and the wrenching relief...
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