Image Credit: Gellinger at Pixabay In Kirsten Imani Kasai’s eerily beautiful novel The House of Erzulie, a diary and a packet of letters are found under the floorboards of…
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Seven years after my father died, I have a nagging cough I keep dismissing as allergies in the middle of a pandemic. I buy a new bottle of Robitussin each…
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by Phyllis Brotherton & Armen Bacon Excerpted from “The Words Between Us, A Pandemic Abecedarius,” a collaborative writing project Unwelcome Today, it is unclear to me precisely how…
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Image Credit: OCD UK You are so brave and quiet, I forget you are suffering. ~Ernest Hemingway This year, my obsessive compulsive disorder diagnosis turned old enough…
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I’ve been living in exile for forty-two years now, about half of them away from home. If that’s as good a line as I think, it’s because, as Lao Tzu…
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Image Credit: Wendy Small We must have felt what it is to die, so we can appreciate what it means to live. Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo…
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Image Credit: “Figure Toys Hugging” by Gaelle Marcel (@gaellemarcel) from Unsplash Beside my bed in a grey storage cube, among old filmstrips and bills, sits a large pink vibrator…
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My dog sees the gull before I do. She strains at the leash, pulling toward the shifting grey shape, which becomes a filthy bundle of feathers, which becomes an injured…
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Metaphors matter. They shoot the right smile, the right handshake, the right colors, posters squirreling. They eye the right clock, ready their knees to implode with the right cascade of…
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The photographic documentation of my life began a few weeks after I was born, and the photograph albums in my childhood home are evidence of my mother’s presence and obsession…
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There’s no such thing as nonfiction. This might seem like the title of yet another essay on the merits of essayistic writing as its own genre and not just a…
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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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Image Credit: Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash Last fall, my 17 year-old son spent three months recovering from a weed addiction while going to high school online from…
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Image Credit: “Self-Portrait” by Egon Schiele (1911) After twenty minutes on the phone with Andrew, our friend in L.A., who had just asked “so what’s on your mind lately,”…