“Someone has to take the iPad,” my mom said. “I’ll never use it, you know.” I am certain my eighty-year-old mom will never dabble with technology. She still calls the…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFeaturedThe Molting: How the Mother of an Addicted Teen Made Way for New Growth
Image Credit: Casey Taylor By freshman year of high school my eldest son had broken more laws, bones, and hearts than any other child in our provincial town. With…
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* * * WITH MOORE & NIEDECKER ON THE NORTH SEA | SEEING that terns & skuas are quicker than rocks that lichen acidifies sandstone back to sand on the…
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During this world-wide pandemic lock down, I am sitting on the couch in the living room of the apartment I am renting in Montevideo, Uruguay, watching the Argentinian food channel…
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In the space between film and reality, there is room for glamour, and it is through this glamour that the narratives presented become immersive— enrapturing, even. Heartbreak, too, is introduced…
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We live in the woods and are visited daily by animals. We used to rush to the windows to take pictures, but by now the deer and rodents feel commonplace,…
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Here is a list of things you can eat that will fill your stomach, not your conscience: Diet Coke Lettuce Trident gum Cigarettes Cigarettes don’t fill your stomach, they fill…
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True Story by Kate Reed Petty Viking Books, August 2020 336 pages / Bookshop / Amazon The first thing to know is that True Story does it all. It’s…
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* * * bird, announce * * * rolling * * * versed * * * J.I. Kleinberg is an artist, poet, and freelance writer. She has twice been nominated…
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* * * Aviary Raft, circa 1989 A portulent tuft sidling upward on dampened rocks, Tail and tucked primary bristling, stiffens; Greasy saline sweeps and splatters Penetrating barb and barbule…
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Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World by Kathryn Cowles Milkweed Editions, 2020 88 pages / Bookshop / Amazon Kasey Jueds: Hannah, I feel a little tentative about beginning,…
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Character Mitch Larsen, “The Killing” Sunday evenings in high school, I attended youth services at a local evangelical church. One Sunday, I tagged along on a post-worship excursion to the…
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No, I will not risk my life to watch Tenet in theaters, unless Christopher Nolan teleports us back to a time before COVID-19. I would rather watch films on my…
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Memory by Bernadette Mayer Siglio Press, June 2020 336 pages / Amazon Bernadette Mayer’s month of July 1971 spans six hours of recorded audio, 36 feet of wall space,…