I did not find them. They found me. I was on the roof in the late afternoon, trying to fix one of the rotors on Municipal Drone-40. I’ve never been…
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When Rory goes out to attend the funeral, he leaves me alone with the dark garden and this pile of hardbacks in my lap. I am concentrating so hard on…
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I 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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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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* * * Friday the 13th in March of 2020 was a day of threes. It was the last day that schools and daycares were open before the first lockdown…
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1. I return to the water like the hand of a clock returns to the same number, a dusty substance. “Of the 85,146 miles of stream and rivers that…
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Looking back on previous editions of the list, I realized that June is a big month for Where to Submit. Personally, this list marks three years of running Where to…
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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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(or, How a Year with Covid-19 Shaped My Czech American Family, One Meal at a Time) It’s 7 a.m. on Tuesday morning; I’m sautéing onions and fresh spinach while calling…
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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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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFeaturedCitizen Privilege, Microaggressions, and Living Outside the National Belonging Huddle
When You Don’t Fit the Eligibility Criteria But Fit the Profile “How can you shop at Walmart?” His brown eyes grow rounder as he ends his question. His body,…
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2021. My greatest weakness when writing crossword clues is a failure to recognize words’ common roots. This is neither very radical nor very horticultural of me, though I have only…
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