The x-ray tech doesn’t drape a lead apron across my body. She doesn’t even fully leave the room. She only tells me to point my toes to the ceiling and…
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Image Credit: Ayden LeRoux “What is Oliver doing this summer?” my grandmother asks, offhandedly. I’m in mid-coast Maine for a week to take care of her and my grandfather,…
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Featured Image Credit: Wafa Shami via Palestine in a Dish Sometimes you fall for the narrative. You fall so hard that the narrator, the conduit through whom the story…
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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: Esi Grunhagen via Pixabay Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. Susan Sontag He slumps in the maroon armchair, nearly supine, staring at the window. Outside,…
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Dr. Blond Bombshell, my reproductive specialist, was an intimidating beauty. Blonde highlights streaked through her soft brown wavy hair. Her makeup was flawless down to the shimmering pale blue eyeshadow…
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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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Everything within me died as my relationship ended. I was afraid I would not be able to leave him. I was afraid I had no value as a person, as…
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A pair of ravens rattles in a cage near the Polar Bear exhibit at the Maryland Zoo. You admire the sheen of their feathers, the sleekness of their preening. Visitors…
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You’re sorry to hear that Dan’s bird Glen died last week. Lately you’ve been wondering about bird life spans. Your friend mentioned something called “blue zones” over dinner, how humans…
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I was 17 when I first heard Liz Phair in the backseat of a boy’s car with my much cooler best friend. We were aimlessly driving around when the boy…
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We save lives. Writing comes from a more mysterious place than any of us have words to describe. The ability to craft words that land across space and time into…
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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: God’s Acre at Old Salem, Winston-Salem, NC by Brandy Reeves I left my job more than three years ago. It was not a particularly good job, but…