Introspection

She’ll iron her work shirts on your bathroom floor. She’ll drench your carpets in water she spills carelessly from sturdy plastic cups, and impressive torrents of tears the average hetero…

Excerpted from a memoir. It was a Saturday morning. My son was in Venezuela on a short vacation with my husband, and I wanted  to hear my younger son’s voice…

On the dock that stuck its tongue into the sound. Against a backdrop of fading light. We stood knowing we were silhouettes. I had long hair then that I wore…

Notes on a Tornado as it Devastates a Trailer Park (after Adrian Matejka’s Beat Bop)   Some Texas boy sees a twister chopping the stand of dogwood where   fields…

For Halloween you painted your entire body in blue latex paint. It was the same year Avatar came out and whenever someone asked if that’s what you were you’d sneer…

My parents found the house that they were to live in for twenty-six years on the corner of Lorraine and East Lincoln Avenues in Mount Vernon, New York. Moving day…

Every family has its famous photos, as did ours, and all my life a black and white image – not a playful caricature but a postwar portrait from years earlier,…

Transplants innately understand the feeling you get while walking around your new neighborhood: This is nice… but it will never truly be mine. Your hometown neighborhood feels like it’s yours,…

& there’s a lake/ & at the bottom you’ll find all our friends/ they don’t swim ‘cause they’re all dead  where did you learn to float?  wish i could tell…

Session Report is a monthly series that explores the intersection of narrative and broader themes of game design by focusing on a specific tabletop game each month. This month’s game…

Photo via: Yitz Woolf — Ruth and Ibtisam hugging. Picture this. A Jewish mom in Jerusalem gets breast cancer and joins an Israeli-Palestinian breast cancer support group. She meets a Muslim…

Artwork: “The Evidence of Things Seen” / Chris Barnard / 2016-17 / Oil on canvas over panel / 81 x 54 in. Armillaria, more commonly known as root rot, is an…

Featured photo — “a city through a jungle” —  from author Katie Simpson. Each night my dad made the same toast: “to another day in paradise.” Our glasses clinked as we…

What started as a Facebook post created by a retired attorney from Hawaii to protest the results of the election turned, overnight, into a massive movement. During the Women’s March…