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Coal Stove Toast

Coal stove toast requires a coal stove, which we do not have, but Nana does. Nana resists many forms of modern kitchen technology and...

Kingfisher

I walked along the lakeside, As a radiance of kingfishers moved, A vast swarm, flowing through the air, A concentration built for the rain, But coloured in by...

A Team of One

I have always been more than one person. When I was married with young children, I was at least four people. A woman. A...

The Truth’s The Truth

The Myth As a child, I was told that all four of my grandparents died before I was born. Stories prevailed: Bubbe Faygie, on Mom’s...

The Trouble with Danish Happiness

In the summer of 2021, each day for two weeks, I drove my 13-year-old son 30 minutes north of our suburban Boston home to...

The Sounding Board: The Court Has Spoken

Pangyrus presents another essay in our political column, The Sounding Board. What’s The Sounding Board? It’s politics writ large—and writ well. The makeup of...

The Bully and the Believer

By the time my daughter discovered her first wiggly tooth, she had doubts about the tooth fairy. It was the end of her first-grade...

Now We’re Cooking with Fire

A dash. Just a dash, she said. A dash, a splash. A splash, a big mess. The recipe was ruined but we laughed our way through...

Wile E. Coyote

Mr. Right

Mad Lil

Two Poems

Hell Bent in High School, 1973 I was bent on being straight. I studied the girls in the girls room lined up after lunch before a row of...
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Advice

Ask Annie: How Writers Should Read

Writers, especially those just starting out, should read omnivorously, insatiably, constantly, selfishly, and slowly. So slowly that the flow and rhythms of the prose...

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