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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...

Kept Woman

My Peruvian grandmother had a favorite and it wasn't me. Her favorite grandchild was Talia, one of my seven cousins. Talia was part of...

Spiral: A Week After the Bone Scan

Paled by prognosis, fear trails me everywhere making the inside of the ice cream store glisten with a cold wet sorrow. We stand assembled in a knot,...

Oppenheimer and the Hero Myth

Midway through Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, Kitty Oppenheimer (Emily Blunt) leaves her Los Alamos home to search for her husband: something is wrong. It’s the...

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...

Kept Woman

My Peruvian grandmother had a favorite and it wasn't me. Her favorite grandchild was Talia, one of my seven cousins. Talia was part of...

Why We Fight

Menoka

Monstera

Knockout

For years I hit myself. Always around the face, sometimes with an open hand but sometimes a clenched fist. I learned to duck a...

Mother’s Ashes

since i lacked the strength to scatter you at sea as you had asked of me because i failed to say goodbye as normal children should and did...

Psalm for Roe v. Wade

Two Poems

Midsummer’s Eve

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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...

Further Reading