On May 1st, our forty-ninth day of quarantining in our Portland home, my husband turns to me over morning coffee and says, “I have to make a quick run into…
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Image Credit: Land use maps produced by the Works Progress Administration in 1934. They render the Pacific Palisades area all the way to the Municipal Airport (at the time) along the Pacific…
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Image Credit: Funmilayo Obasa Your body lies still, one leg stretched and the other bent, like a frozen epileptic scene; the belly still held a lot of noise, so…
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The weird thing about getting older is how people stumble into my life whom I haven’t seen in years, it’s a time loop, someone whose whereabouts were unknown, and then…
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Image Credit: Sylwia Padiasek A Thursday afternoon marked two months that I had been living with Ryan. Before, we were just a girl and a guy who’d been dating…
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Ollie and Allie were born on Thursday, June 11, 2020. Their arrival was as unexpected as when we first knew of their existence.” It was back in late December,…
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LIKE THE DEVIL WALKING INTO HEAVEN Crippling anxiety took the wheel at 6:05 p.m. It was a stormy Friday in December 2019 and I was more than halfway to…
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She knew it was the day they should try to get pregnant, and so did he. He came around the corner from the hotel room kitchen and she could see…
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On day eighty-one of quarantine, I heard a story about an octopus mother who sat on her eggs for fifty-three months. This deep-sea mollusk lived off the coast of California,…
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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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I never knew my lola. Every few months, I would hear her voice crackle through the phone from the other side of the Earth. On the mantel, I would see…
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I couldn’t watch the video of that white cop, face hard as rock as he implacably strangled the life out of the Black man with his knee. Murder in broad…
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“Where ya going buckaroo?” Casey said, taking off his headphones and tossing them on to the desk. I shrugged. “Out, I think.” “I thought you said you were exhausted?” “I…
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I recognized the internal rotation of her shoulders, the near scowl on her face as she strode haltingly through the halls. Self-protection. She had a slight build with long legs…