“I don’t care—just make it even,” I said to my mom. She turned the clippers on. As the first tufts fell onto the towel draped over my shoulders, I did…
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When I was a fifteen, my family had a large unshaded backyard, a self-propelled gas lawnmower, and no men. The mower was an old LawnBoy: greasy and green, with a…
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Image Credit: James Cochran Monday morning we were up at the big rock we call Everest, with all the girl dolls, gathering. My older daughter, Elsie, was explaining why…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayMusicSex, Sax, and Smoothies: Confessions of a Teenage Dave Matthews Fan
In the winter of my junior year in high school, my mom and dad took a ten-day trip to China, leaving me at home to fend for myself. It was,…
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1/20/2007, Xerox transfer and gouache on mylar, series of 4, 2017 Sirens wail. A cheer rises up from the scattered crowds. One by one, booms like gunshots ring 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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We were the McGill Girls. The phenom that rose from the ashes of my parents’ brutal divorce. Pulled tightly together, a mother and her two girls, arms interlocked and nestled…
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Continuing with our series of “Best of 2019″ lists curated by the entire Entropy community, we present some of our favorite selections as nominated by the diverse staff and team…
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My mother has purchased antique cap guns to get the crows. She hates the crows because they cornered a squirrel in her backyard. She watched them from the kitchen window…
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Hunched over shouldering my duffle, just home from college, my dad stops me on the sidewalk. “You look like someone I … could have a deep conversation with,” he stutters,…
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I filmed my first spanking video while wearing the silver key charm my boyfriend had just given me on a chain around my neck. The video shoot took place a…
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Image Credit: Amy Touchette To My Fourteen-Year-Old Self You were in luck; you were saved. You were in the ambulance. Under the buzzing, white-hot gaze of the overhead…
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We continue our “Best of 2019″ series curated by the entire Entropy community and present some of our favorite selections as nominated by the diverse staff and team here at…
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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…