featured photo by Amy Bowers In Medieval times a bower meant a woman’s private chamber. Later its meaning broadened to suggest a cozy space, either indoors or under the…
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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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At a time when young boys all over suburban America were being diagnosed with ADHD, I was busy having existential crises. I was eight years old: I’d be playing with…
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My father was a birder. Gulls were not his birds. But he taught me something about gulls and language: there is no such thing as a seagull. There is only…
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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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The F train is decelerating. I can tell from the decrescendo ringing off the cold steel tracks, this orchestra of New York City Transit. I sprint down the steps of…
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Notes on March – September, 2020 “Perhaps if the human race passes from recorded history, the fake crowd sound at COVID-19-era sports events will loop into the endless future.” –…
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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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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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featured photo by Chris F. from Pexels It is late May and I find a possum surrounded by turkey vultures in the street. The morning light peters in greys and…
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The Jungle Room It was meant to be a “formal” living room, the kind where not much living actually happened. My mother decided to decorate it toward an exotic…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFoster Care: I wanted to adopt from foster care. Then I became a foster parent.
Image Credit: British Library via Unsplash After the miscarriage. After the intrusive appointments. After the unexplained infertility diagnosis. After the private adoption application. After the IVF abroad in the…
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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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It was still light out when Darcy, Kerry, and I left Kerry’s mother’s house: a one level, newly built house in a neighborhood filled with one level newly built homes,…