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Aprons

Carol Iaciofano Aucoin -
After my mother’s death, my sisters and brother and I embarked on a task familiar to many adult children: clearing out our childhood home....

Field Notes

In Case of Moths

Allaire Diamond -
For days at the tail end of the Obama administration, I haunted my neighborhood thrift store, casing the free pile and the clothing racks...

Comics

Folklore

Lindsey Leigh -
This series explores real and imagined customs and superstitions.     For more Folklore, visit Lindsey Leigh Art.

Schooled

The Silver Lining of the Black Box

Mia Manduca -
I teach to Black Boxes. At the beginning of the school year teaching psychology to high school seniors on Zoom was intimidating and confusing. Black...

Craft and Career

Ask Annie: Truth or Fiction?

Anne Bernays -
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...

Reviews

Normal People and the Intimate Problem of Patriarchy

Anri Wheeler -
I avoided Normal People for as long as I could. I didn’t have a Hulu subscription and, having read neither Sally Rooney’s book nor...

Essay & Memoir

Aprons

Carol Iaciofano Aucoin -
After my mother’s death, my sisters and brother and I embarked on a task familiar to many adult children: clearing out our childhood home....

Love Letter to My Soon to Be 13-Year-Old Black Son

Ryane Nicole Granados -

Sixteen Paris Crossings or Art in the Time of Crisis

Trần Vũ Thu-Hằng -

Me, My Father, and The Persian Rug

Maryam Keramaty -

White Hair

Nancy Agabian -

Fiction

The Tawny-Green Steppe

Tim Weed -
April 15th, 1832 On the second day of our anchorage at the mouth of the Rio Santa Cruz, I led a party of sailors up...

Three Micro Stories

Meg Pokrass and Jeff Friedman -

Alien Stories: A Story & Interview with E.C. Osondu

Anne Bernays and Indu Guzman -

Flower Eyes

Rhiannon McCarthy -

The Diversion

James Burke -

Poetry

The Red

Laura Foley -
The red of the port scar near her heart of the Citgo sign’s glow when I turn to the window of my eyes from watching her in the infusion...

The Most Portable Instrument

Hilary Sallick -

Love Song

Elizabeth Moore -

Missing

SM Stubbs -

Diagnosis

Hannah Landsberger -
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Dear Pan: Coronavirus Spoil Sport

PanGurus -
We love advice columns.  But so much of what passes for advice is really the conventional wisdom of one particular culture, at one moment...

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