TRIGGER WARNING: This essay contains references to suicide that may be triggering to some. Within the deservedly acclaimed finale of BoJack Horseman, there’s one scene in particular that encapsulates the…
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You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat Catapult, June 2020 263 pages / Bookshop / B&N / Amazon “You exist too much,” complains a mother to her daughter, the…
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It was a mourning dove in the afternoon, and it was flying much faster than they do normally. A sunny afternoon too, rare in the Highlands summer, and that bird…
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* * * I’m sorry that they thought you were ugly but if it makes you feel any better they thought I was ugly too, and when I first saw…
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* * * Barred Owl Under my curved wings, the dusk. You flinch from these shadows I inhabit. Below me, scurries, the bright eyes of prey. Then my fine talons…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayGamesVideo GamesHow Zelda Saved Me: The Inspiration, Feminism, and Empowerment of Hyrule
My shield glistens in the filmy haze of morning light. I am alone, free to roam this vast expanse. With a whistle my loyal horse appears, armored in steel, teleporting…
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Blackberry Vines Quarantine Poem #12 They say that in these times to soothe the fragility of our egos we should “control what we can” so on the days the anxiety…
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“When I flash the porch light twice that means it’s time to come home,” matriarch Olivia Crain tells her children. This parental rule imparts a precocious young Nell with a…
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Image Credit: Anna Gaskell, Untitled #35 (Hide), 1998, from Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Purchased with funds contributed by the Photography Committee in 2000. When I was twelve…
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FeaturedInterviewPoetryFoster Care: “Foster kids go through so much, and so much of it is not spoken”
Image Credit: Taunton Lake, New Jersey by Elisabeth Through a project working with communities which recognize that many of their young people deserve better education and life outcomes, I…
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* * * holding in one clawed foot, the fruit, the parakeet thrusts its beak into the brilliant fig, plucking hard at the pith it’s another one of those nights,…
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Grow Up On the dating app Colin told you he does yoga at an Episcopalian church. You don’t know much about Episcopalians, except that Charlotte on Sex and the City…
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film still from Jean-Luc Godard’s Band of Outsiders If films—as many have pointed out before—are an approximate for dreams, then Band of Outsiders is a dream in which the figures…
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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…