40 | Kathryn Gahl
The day after I visit my daughter in prison I think of how she is…
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Beginnings | Keith Mark Gaboury
Can I travel back to the womb,
back to the female zygote
of my conception
when…
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Whatever Gets You Through the Night | Sally Lipton Derringer
What words do you need when you’re trying not to drop the house on your back, your shoulders bruised, a hard rain falling? Neil Young was on…
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Little House | Constance Campana
I haven’t had a home since I was 25. Not really. That’s when my mother died. She had cancer and one day, more than a year before her death, I stood at mid-day looking out the front window…
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SALT: A Homecoming | Susan Maeder
It was Penelope’s job to wait. And weave. Or so we think…
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Tastes | Kirk McDavitt
I’ve never been able to decide on one thing. It doesn’t matter if we’re talking jobs, food, travel, books or movies. There has never been one of any style or genre to which I can fully commit. I want it all. Or, at least…
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A Tale of Two Concerts | Jeanne Wilkinson
An adapted excerpt from the as-yet-unpublished memoir:
1969: My Year with a San Francisco Drug Dealer
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Advent Calendar | Cezanne Alexander
December 1, 2017:
I am alone this December, cloistered in a stranger’s Airbnb apartment to finish my memoir. A package arrives addressed to…
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Jordan & Karyn | Jude Brewer
My friend Jordan spreads almond butter on his bananas. Peel, spread, bite, chew. He talks between swallowing and spreading.
“My world view is fucked,” he says…
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President Marilyn Monroe Devours Her Young | Joanna Koch
I’m going to disappoint you. But you know that already. If I don’t, you’ll keep me around and alive. And where will that leave us? Like an old married couple. Like a husband and wife…
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