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 was born in a snowstorm from a woman whose body was stolen. She was knocked out and drugged up hours after arriving at the hospital where she planned to…
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1. “I don’t know if things happen for a reason,” my dad says in a low aside to my boyfriend in the pizza parlor in Grand Forks, North Dakota. “I…
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A bus filled with performing arts professionals bumped along a cracked cement road in Mexico City. It was fall, and we’d come from across wihe Americas to participate in ENARTES,…
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Before he went under general anesthesia, I had to sign a form stating that I knew my baby might die. While this wasn’t the first moment of my parenthood that…
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In second grade, I joined the Girl Scouts, “where girls grow strong.” In high school, long after almost everyone I knew had abandoned the group as a nerdy club, I…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFeaturedThe Birds: Seeds, Feathers, and Hope: birdwatching in Buenos Aires
“Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if…
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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: Getty Images The chairs are white molded plastic; the walls, also white, are blazed with a quotation in elegant script. Driftwood has been strung over the stairs…
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In the first day of the New Year, a rare chill took hold of the desert, shivering cacti sucked into themselves, gunmetal sky swollen with rain. I spent the day horizontal,…
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Dad ashes his cigarette in the freshly washed, plastic black ashtray beside the recliner while working through his daily crossword in The Oregonian. To make skin tones, I start out…
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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: B Hayward Not long after we moved in together, my girlfriend and I created a budget to monitor our living expenses. We both freelance, so it’s a…
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1. I saw… I saw an ant pitta near Papallacta. I saw a mot mot near Mindo I heard an owl in Seattle What we love barely exists I was…