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The sun reveals the mountains one by one in shades of smoke and slate and coffee grounds. Then it gets to work on their ancient contours, lighting up the spaces…

  Also she appeared to be floating, breathing a kind of game or to make sense of the gravy- pond plates, the castaway serviettes dolphin-finned or carpet coral, barnacles, moats?…

[Image: “Les nuits blanches” by Sophie Lecuyer] Only she didn’t fly. She fell. Careened. The wind whipped her face, struck like iced rain, pulled tears from her eyes. But with…

WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…

She was creeping around at night looking for food. Well, it wasn’t really night, only just past sundown, and the call from the mosque still hung in the blackening air,…

The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty by Robert P. Crease & Alfred Scharff Goldhaber Norton, 2015 352 pages / Amazon   William…

  I. There was the squirrel my mom killed while in Colorado with my dad, before my brother and I were born. She slowed down to let it cross the…

After feeling anxious for years, first in childhood stomach aches, then in the mid-twenties chest pains, both times with the dread, the worry, the terror, a doctor said to me:…

Word of the day: “hleów-feðer” – lit. “shelter-feather” (Anglo-Saxon); a comforting or protective arm placed around someone or something. (Robert Macfarlane, posted on Instagram, November 10, 2017) The cardinals’ nest…

             “We may be the only sane family you have,” Uncle Olin yelled from the front seat of his red and white Chevy Impala. He laughed. “Hate to say that,…

I was standing at a bus shelter in Smithfield when it suddenly occurred to me that I was quite alone. I had been staring at a spot on the ground,…

Installation shot, The Fulfillment Center at the Black Cube Headquarters, 2019; image courtesy of the artists and Black Cube. Photo: Third Dune Productions Fetishizing the warehouse in America feels like…

Image Credit: Ray Nalangan   (Please Wake Up)   I remember the first time I saw Sarah. I was working for the Department of Physical Therapy in the intensive care…

Typically, I don’t understand the irritatingly persistent appeal of French food. I have little interest in the incessant barrage of cookbooks, the well-lit photos, the homages and journeys all dedicated…