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Mama Bruja

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On September 19, 2020 / By Cat Huang
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Three Gazes of Attention

1. Native Habitat Inside this dark wood and glass café, at the table next to mine, I watch as the ESL student struggles in the quagmire of “bother” ...
On September 17, 2020 / By Sayantani Dasgupta
In Sickness and In Health 0
Our Snail Mail Lady

In the doldrum days of shelter-in-place, our mail carrier Peaches was our butterfly. She flitted from house to house delivering good cheer along with our letters and packages; ...
On September 15, 2020 / By Iumi Richard-Crow
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Get Off My Lawn

The yell that arose from the shallow grave at the base of my brain to interrupt my son as he reached for the late lone tulip— death-vaunting goth ...
On September 13, 2020 / By Tanya Larkin
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Race, Family, and Enduring Histories: An Interview with E. Dolores Johnson about her Memoir Say I’m Dead

Pangyrus Nonfiction Editor Artress Bethany White interviewed E. Dolores Johnson, author of Say I’m Dead, A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love (Lawrence Hill Books, 2020) to ...
On September 12, 2020 / By Artress Bethany White
Essay & Memoir 0
the long way to a small, angry inbox

Normally, this wouldn’t matter so much. A few nights ago, I logged into an old Yahoo account that I habitually checked and used for retrospective purposes: I’d had ...
On September 10, 2020 / By Florina Nastase

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Get Off My Lawn

The yell that arose from the shallow grave at the base of my brain to interrupt my son as he reached for the late lone tulip— death-vaunting goth ...
On September 13, 2020 / By Tanya Larkin
In Sickness and In Health 0
Into Love

Every kiss that was ever kissed— every smile, every baby’s delight, a first step, a face that hides and comes back, a belly laugh— every morning of ...
On September 6, 2020 / By Nadia Colburn
Poetry 0
Black Hole Beheld

Image: “Black Hole Image Makes History” NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Photostream, licensed under CC 2.0. Michael Leach: I was inspired to write the poem ‘Black ...
On August 30, 2020 / By Michael Leach

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Pandemic Story Problems

1. Mariah gets a temporary job that pays her $1 on Day One. On the second day, her pay is doubled to 2 dollars. Her daily wage doubles ...
On September 8, 2020 / By Naomi Williams
Fiction 1
Seeing Red

How long has that bicycle been out there he asks his wife. She’s still seated at the breakfast table, slapping around the morning paper. He’s peering through the ...
On August 23, 2020 / By Pamela Painter
Fiction 1
The Way Things Are

… And, in the spring— as soon as possible, when the ground was just warming, the snow melting down all the sewers and into the ponds and the ...
On August 4, 2020 / By Susan Volchok

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Pandemic Story Problems

1. Mariah gets a temporary job that pays her $1 on Day One. On the second day, her pay is doubled to 2 dollars. Her daily wage doubles ...
On September 8, 2020 / By Naomi Williams
Essay & Memoir 3
For Greenwood

When my husband and I were much younger and had more leisure time, we decided to binge-watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was my husband’s idea. I had ...
On August 22, 2020 / By Celeste Cosme
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Pandemics and Pasta: Sustenance in the Viral Age

Tonight, I am roasting ripe Heirloom tomatoes with onions, garlic, and olive oil in a 400-degree-oven while a blend of mushrooms, garlic, and white wine bubbles in a ...
On July 21, 2020 / By Cindy Sams