1. A common raven Corvus corax high overhead. Not so common, and beneath, where I stand only A window a mirror But no blood. Are you listening? This essay is…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayThe Stories We Tell Ourselves: The Power of Narrative and Community Amid Chaos
There is no good way to open this. I can only try to make sense of the summer of 2017 when my mother lost her mind and the country seemed…
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Image Credit: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Like most avid readers, I have long let Don Quixote, that seventeenth century tome of imaginary adventures, sit unread on my…
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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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How badly I want to be naked with someone, to rock back and forth parallel to their body, to shadow their movements and feel again the tender whistle of a…
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Under the scratchy polyester quilt in our rented trailer I listened to the volley of insults grow thick and loud on the other side of the wall. Cabinet doors slammed,…
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In 1910, a German immigrant named Franz Edward Rohrbeck painted a mural in the rotunda of the Brown County Courthouse in Green Bay, Wisconsin. To the uninitiated the scene it…
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“The vessel that takes you on this journey will safely bring you home.” My psychonaut smiles and says, “see you on the other side.” I take a deep breath and…
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Image Credit: “Red Dresses” by Elena Filatov Red is my favourite colour. I have heard it said that red is a masculine colour, a patriarchal colour; the colour of…
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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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Once you have established a belief, the phenomenon adjusts its manifestations to support that belief. If you believe in the devil he will surely come striding down your road one…
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Photographs: © Isa Leshko My grandmother turned 86 in June, and, since then, she has been having some health and memory problems. It’s been sad and frustrating to watch her in…
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Chris set the reusable Viegut Funeral Home bag on the conveyer belt, went through security and waited. He wore the only pair of shorts he owned and one of his…
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There are so many ways to get it wrong, to misread, to come to the pages we assign you—and fail. Maybe you see the same story, one of challenge and…