My mom only knows military time. Because she grew up in Sweden, even though she’s lived in the US now longer than she ever lived there, she still gets her…
Creative Nonfiction / Essay
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The Flood
by Guest Contributor August 20, 2021Image Credit: Christina Gottardi via Unsplash In the months leading up to the storm, the weather in Northeast Ohio was dry. In May, June, and July of 2007, the…
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Foster Care: The Story My Body Already Knew
by Guest Contributor August 19, 2021Nobody cares much about snail mail in 2021, but today my hands are shaking as I pull a priority envelope from the mailbox. I have been waiting for this for…
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FLOWERS OF FORGETTING
by Brandon Shimoda August 17, 2021[Featured image credit: Still from film Hiroshima mon amour; Dir. Alain Resnais, Screenplay by Marguerite Duras, 1959] The following is talk that was originally given on Monday, August…
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To Pledge Again: Notes On Silence and Responding
by Guest Contributor August 17, 2021Half a decade after my ex from college and I had broken up, in my mid-twenties, I messaged him to let him know he’d be in an essay of mine,…
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The Birds: Microfoam Heart
by Guest Contributor August 12, 2021On my way home from school, I stalk the family pharmacy between the bus stop and my rented rowhouse in Stoneybatter—an “up-and-coming” historic neighborhood in Dublin, Ireland, where Wi-Fi networks…
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WOVEN: Red
by Guest Contributor August 11, 2021WOVEN 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: Because of a film called Hustlers in which one character says to another ‘Hurt people hurt people’
by Guest Contributor August 4, 2021WOVEN 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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Physics
by Mike Cordle July 30, 2021When I was an adolescent, my parents moved our little family of four to Alaska. There we built a log house in which to live. We did not have a…
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WOVEN: (The Other) Secret Diary of a Call Girl
by Guest Contributor July 28, 2021WOVEN 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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Biography of an Embryo
by Guest Contributor July 27, 2021People often comment when they meet my son, “He has your eyes.” His eyes are blue, like a clear sky at dusk, outlined with the dark vignette of encroaching night.…
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Two Shell Hunters
by Guest Contributor July 23, 2021The shells are so tiny, most mistake them for grains of sand. They are complete structures within themselves, with every detail of their sacred geometry still intact. Most of their…
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The Birds: The Remarkable Robin
by Guest Contributor July 21, 2021I watch and love the birds most people fail to notice. Just another house sparrow, dressed in its dull buff. A handsome male is building a nest between the screen…
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The Birds: Crex Crex
by Guest Contributor July 20, 2021This landscape is alive with wings. Two cuckoos are nesting in the hawthorn by our house. They spend their days sitting high on the telephone wires, waiting for unsuspecting starlings…