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Say Mother Say Hand: An Anti-Memoir by Marie Conlan Half Mystic Press, April 2020 116 pages / Bookshop   In Marie Conlan’s debut book, Say Mother Say Hand, healing is done…

Image Credit: Nola Johnson   At the time of the transition to online classes, my high school students were reading Octavia Butler’s 1993 novel Parable of the Sower. The book…

Image Credit: iStock.com/rattodisabina   It’s an overcast Sunday; more Edinburgh than Arlington on what should be a sunny Memorial Day weekend. I pull the New York Times from its blue…

Dear Uncle R., Here’s what the stories have told me: you died in 1987 at home, not in Vietnam. I was born in 1990. My coworker—an army reserve who saw…

Too happy Time dissolves itself And leaves no remnant by – ‘Tis Anguish not a Feather hath Or too much weight to fly – —Emily Dickinson   Not long into…

Of all the icons that sprung from the 1990s, no one has made me feel “seen” like the titular character in the MTV cartoon series Daria. Growing up in the…

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…

Image Credit: Gellinger at Pixabay   In Kirsten Imani Kasai’s eerily beautiful novel The House of Erzulie, a diary and a packet of letters are found under the floorboards of…

1. Once upon a time a young girl lives her life free from the constraint of clothing. She is vulnerable, as you might expect. Perhaps even unaware of her vulnerability…

Peripatet by Grant Maierhofer Inside the Castle, August 2019 540 pages / Bookshop / Amazon   If I leaf through a book, and ignore each word’s meaning, the pages resemble…

Seven years after my father died, I have a nagging cough I keep dismissing as allergies in the middle of a pandemic. I buy a new bottle of Robitussin each…

Delilah Reincarnated as Melania Trump Confides You don’t know that after the barber cuts, I soft blow the loose hairs from the furrow in his collar. Listen closely, trying to…

by Phyllis Brotherton & Armen Bacon   Excerpted from “The Words Between Us, A Pandemic Abecedarius,” a collaborative writing project   Unwelcome Today, it is unclear to me precisely how…