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[Image Credit: Dolores Ayerza, “Luz a los indígenas 2,” 2017] Emilia stares at the chicken coop. It houses a scaled dove. A tiger striped dog peers in through the diamond shaped…

I saw one of these boys in an airport yesterday. He was in line ahead of me and was traveling with his sports team. They all spoke loudly in English…

When I was a child, my father would raise his long arm above my head, his fingertips meeting at a point like the top of a pyramid. He’d widen his…

I used to be a spinster. Spinning wool might not have been the most practical skill in the sense of career opportunities, but I could turn a pile of fluff…

As we head into the end of 2018 and the second year of the Trump administration, I still find it difficult to believe that he is at the helm of…

The day my first book arrived, I was heading out the door to a poetry reading at a university an hour away. I had just enough time to return from…

[Image Credit: “Castle in the Sky,” Mranda Wildman] Chase found me on the third floor of the downtown library. He said his mother was across the street drinking coffee in…

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…

When I was thirteen years old, I had all of the answers. If you wanted to have a good life, all you needed to do was pray every night and…

A month after Halloween, my friend S texted me a photo of the wig I left in his car. “What should I do with it?” It looked wounded. And yet…

Note from the editor: This Halloween, we asked you to review your scariest moments in books, with the aim of getting at just what of literature–perhaps even art in general–sticks with…

What is it about the water that invites change? Is it the clearing of our minds, paving the way for something new? Maybe it’s the depth. The knowledge that if…

I’ve behaved myself for almost a year, focusing on my goals, keeping it in my pants, if you will, but at the end of October I’m invited to a costume…

Dear Meadowview Management, I write in response to your letter alleging negligence on my part by failing to pick up the droppings of my Samoyed dog, Sophie. I am sure…