This is part of a recurring column about modern romance, dating, and more. I never intended to be a prostitute. Or a hooker. Or a sex worker. That certainly wasn’t what…
Introspection
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayCultureIntrospection
Becky with the Good Affair: Three’s Company
by Guest Contributor March 13, 2018This is the first in a recurring column about modern romance, dating, and more. I started talking to my first couple on a summer afternoon. I found them through the sex-positive…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayIntrospection
Three Songs and a Skimpy Thong
by Guest Contributor February 9, 2018It was the 80’s. Seattle. Four books on feminism stack themselves perilously next to my twin bed, in a teeny apartment, on a narrow rickety dark wood table I stole…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayIntrospection
WOVEN: The Day When I Was Seven And I Kept Her Safe
by Guest Contributor January 25, 2018WOVEN 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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The intimacy of the tiny cockpit of the single engine Piper Comanche was romantic and intimidating. The empty sky outside the window was only an inch from my shoulder. At…
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Worry Without cloud cover to hold it at bay, the cold pours over the eaves of the house and mounds up against the foundation like sand in an hourglass.…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayIntrospection
On Weather: Silent Snow
by Guest Contributor November 12, 2017I wake up at 6:45 with little feet pressed into my shoulder blades, my body contorted into the shape of an L as I try to avoid my black lab…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFeaturedIntrospection
Saving Sylvia Plath by Samantha Payne
by Guest Contributor November 8, 2017We were drinking at the time—well, Nick and me at least. My younger brother, Josh, wouldn’t drink, won’t drink. We were all home from college, some in-between time during the…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayHow-ToIntrospection
A Beginner’s Guide to Temporary Cohabitation
by Guest Contributor October 26, 2017She’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…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayIntrospection
Accident on Highway 35
by Guest Contributor October 6, 2017Excerpted 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…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayIntrospection
In All of This Blue by Brigitte Lewis
by Brigitte Lewis October 4, 2017On 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…