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Essay & Memoir 0
Sphincters I Have Known and Lost

“You want to hear about all the times I’ve had tubes shoved up my penis?” There’s a sentence I never thought I would ever speak or write to ...
On May 21, 2020 / By Jon Shorr
Essay & Memoir 0
Kinship

On the evening of Valentine’s Day, 2019, Marisa, Arianna and I gathered at Kinship where Marisa worked as a hostess. She had just left a film production job ...
On May 19, 2020 / By Eileen Elizabeth
In Sickness and In Health 0
T E A R S

for Bree Cameron In the Year and Era of Our Quarantine Your tears wander the vacant streets at night, One fluvial wet footstep at a time Desolate & ...
On May 16, 2020 / By Vi Khi Nao
Poetry 0
Photographing Your Salad Turns It into a Ghost

Women who eat nothing but salad aren’t really women but figments of the culture’s collective unconscious. One day one escapes the walls of the basement’s television and bleeds ...
On May 14, 2020 / By Joanna Fuhrman
Essay & Memoir 1
Let’s (not) Talk about Sex

My girls were seven and three when we decided to raise chickens. It was a group effort until the moment the cute phase was over and the hen ...
On May 12, 2020 / By Lindsey Byars
Notes from the Classroom 0
In the Spring Light

At a charter school, a teacher reflects on the costs--and satisfactions--of commitment to a system meant to consume student and teacher alike. ...
On May 8, 2020 / By Katherine Rieser

In Sickness and In Health 0
T E A R S

for Bree Cameron In the Year and Era of Our Quarantine Your tears wander the vacant streets at night, One fluvial wet footstep at a time Desolate & ...
On May 16, 2020 / By Vi Khi Nao
Poetry 0
Photographing Your Salad Turns It into a Ghost

Women who eat nothing but salad aren’t really women but figments of the culture’s collective unconscious. One day one escapes the walls of the basement’s television and bleeds ...
On May 14, 2020 / By Joanna Fuhrman
In Sickness and In Health 0
Song at the End of the Mind

I think of you as a radio frequency— sometimes hard to find as I touch the illuminated dial. But tonight you arrive murmuring into my ear ...
On May 7, 2020 / By Susan Rich

Fiction 0
Does the Name Blackie Donovan Mean Anything To You?

There’s this little guy on my porch I’ve never seen before. He’s a caricature of an Irish thug and he’s looking for Mikayla, my daughter, who he accuses ...
On April 30, 2020 / By Ron MacLean
Fiction 0
Q&A with author Marco Rafalà and an excerpt of How Fires End

Heartbreaking and haunting, How Fires End is a powerful novel that explores devastating family secrets - who keeps them and why, how and when they will someday be ...
On April 28, 2020 / By Jessica Goodwin
Fiction 0
The Novel I Will Never Write: A Screed by Gabe Cohen

The protagonist of the novel I will never write is kind of like me. Except more articulate. And cleverer. And a bit more handsome. And, if I’m real ...
On April 17, 2020 / By E. Thomas Finan

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