Fall semester junior year, I lived in a six-man, four-bedroom dorm suite and every Tuesday and Thursday at 3:15, Diggity and I returned home at the same time. I’d need…
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To Limn / Lying In by J’Lyn Chapman [PANK] Books, April 2020 SPD / Bookshop / Amazon 68 pages – nonfiction, lyric essay In this new book of ten exquisite…
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Image Credit: Snail Doolin I was twenty-one when I found out that Carrie Underwood’s song “Before He Cheats” isn’t meant as a literal how-to guide for handling a cheating…
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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…
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image: Radiation by Rhonda Fishman * Freddy had wired a radio in the bathroom so that whenever Freddy turned on the light, he had music. He stood in front of…
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Nudes by Elle Nash forthcoming from Short Flight/Long Drive, February 2021 In Elle Nash’s new story collection Nudes, readers are invited to share the lives of individuals who exist…
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During the 2020 summer of COVID, empty nesters themselves, my octogenarian parents adopted baby birds. Here’s how it happened: in the process of cutting down dead wood from the weeping…
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In 1990, when Halley’s comet was 1.2 billion miles from the sun, an eight-year-old boy heard a song called “Halley Came to Jackson” on a new CD on his parents’…
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* * * You hold your clenched fist out to me, palm up, fingers wrapped around an unseen object. I hold your gaze as I unwrap them, one by one.…
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I bought my first Hold Steady record at a Borders Bookstore in Vermont. From this sentence it’s probably fair to assume two things about me: I’m over the age of…
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In the summer of 2012, I quit my office job and spent a month and a half on a solo cross-country road trip moving from Pittsburgh to San Francisco. It…
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Hull by Xandria Phillips Nightboat Books, October 2019 Bookshop / Amazon 80 pages – poetry Hull, by Xandria Phillips, is an adroit, time traveling poetic structure that gracefully scoops…
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[Image collage: “The Skin That Dies”] I found the Craigslist ad when I first showed up in Phoenix, in those early days that were spent scouring the internet, waiting for…
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* * * And I wish for a moment, a moment to breathe. There is my teenage son, his knee bouncing under the kitchen table; my father, calling voicelessly for…