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In Sickness and Health 3
“Find Everything You’re Looking For?”

Despite the naysayers among my family and friends, I decided to see what was happening in retail. I’d always wanted to sell things when I was a kid. ...
On March 31, 2020 / By Grace Segran
In Sickness and Health 0
Widow

God, You carry this device in my chest called love & I – a child of infertility – choose you to sterilize the left testicle of intimacy ...
On March 31, 2020 / By Vi Khi Nao
Fiction 1
Hash Pipe

Now and then, when his face slumps into disappointment, I wonder if I did wrong by both of us, going with him to the prom and all that ...
On March 31, 2020 / By Amy Bernstein
Advice 0
Ask Annie: Truth or Fiction?

Anne Bernays has been a mainstay of Pangyrus since our launch–and a mainstay of fiction and non-fiction writing for decades. Co-author of What If?, one of the most enduring texts ...
On March 6, 2020 / By Anne Bernays
Film 0
Frozen 2 Is Even More Trans Than the First One

As of 2013, when it hit theaters, Frozen was the most trans movie ever. At least so it seemed to many trans girls (it was and is a ...
On November 25, 2019 / By Stephanie Burt
Politics 0
Trump: Making America Great (Britain) Again?

The British king’s efforts to establish “an absolute Tyranny” over the 13 original colonies led to the Declaration of Independence in 1776. In it, Thomas Jefferson minces no ...
On September 17, 2019 / By Keith Raffel

In Sickness and Health 0
Widow

God, You carry this device in my chest called love & I – a child of infertility – choose you to sterilize the left testicle of intimacy ...
On March 31, 2020 / By Vi Khi Nao
Poetry 0
A Declaration: Forbidding Mourning

This is a time we’d like to forget a virulent inflection that pains and yet cannot last unless we let it, This is the way it flows, a ...
On June 24, 2019 / By Bruce Robinson
Poetry 1
Are You a Self-Identified Black Woman?

Are you eligible to partake in academia? Question your acceptance letter? Not writing the other perspective? Missing the point of the assignment? Do you get Tarantino’s postmodern ...
On May 19, 2019 / By Krysten Hill

Fiction 1
Hash Pipe

Now and then, when his face slumps into disappointment, I wonder if I did wrong by both of us, going with him to the prom and all that ...
On March 31, 2020 / By Amy Bernstein
Fiction 0
An Awesome Gap

Around the corner, the lot opened up and the asphalt smoothed out. The rough patches disappeared and Patrick glided along, gaining speed as he headed for a concrete ...
On October 7, 2018 / By Virginia Pye
Fiction 0
The Asshole

He was not a very good person. He was, by many accounts, vile, impolite, crude, inappropriate, ignorant, insensitive, and offensive. He was a gifted asshole, a precocious prick, ...
On September 28, 2018 / By Vincent Yu

Ideas 1
Stories About the End of the World

My first visit to a science museum, when I was kid, had a remarkable impact on me. I might have been eleven or twelve; it might have been ...
On August 1, 2019 / By Usha Alexander
Ideas 0
Complaint and Prayer

In recognition of May being Mental Health Awareness Month, we are proud to publish Marie G Coleman’s personal essay “Complaint and Prayer.” Coleman’s piece is a raw and ...
On May 27, 2019 / By Marie G Coleman
Comics 0
Marcuse on the MTA

To open separate window, click button on upper right of comic display “Marcuse on the MTA” is an excerpt from Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia: A Graphic Biography, ...
On March 17, 2019 / By Nick Thorkelson