* * * There is a little bird, I don’t remember the name of him, but he skims right over the surface of the ocean. It must be frightening out…
anxiety
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* * * Recovery, Hawk Starlings circling for days peck at grass seed, lift to branches, skirting limbs to eaves and back again, fluttering jumpy, these birds, my legs one…
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On the Heels of Fate’s Vow, I Soar Bare, in a state of nature recumbent in my solitude staring through the white sash windows panes covered in mist the sky…
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* * * And I wish for a moment, a moment to breathe. There is my teenage son, his knee bouncing under the kitchen table; my father, calling voicelessly for…
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There was a period of time–six or nine months–when I became obsessed with Great Blue Herons. Or not really obsessed, exactly. Obsession holds too much weight, and this was something…
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Image Credit: Carsten Lenz There are four tunnels on the drive between the house I grew up in and the house I live in now. Four hours of black…
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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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Image Credit: Megan Perra You’ve probably heard this one before. When I was six years old, my father left our family. He left Virginia for Florida, weaved in and…
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
WOVEN: Rebuilding in the Wake of Hurricane R
by Guest Contributor November 27, 2019WOVEN 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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I was driving the old blue Volvo northbound on U.S. Route 89 through Chino Valley, bound for Las Vegas, while feeling content just to drift in and out of the…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFeatured
WOVEN: Touch Me, Touch Me Not
by Guest Contributor July 31, 2019WOVEN 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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Health/Wellness
The End of the Rainbow in the Inner Richmond
by Guest Contributor September 10, 2018In the 2015 New York Times article “Please Stop Making That Noise,” Barron H. Lerner calls misophonia, literally hatred of sound, a “selective sound sensitivity syndrome.” It can be triggered…
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The summer I turned fourteen, my best friend Katie was in love with the chiseled lifeguard who presided over her community pool from his chair high up in the heavens.…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayPoetry
A Conversation Between What is Broken
by Guest Contributor May 2, 2018I. i have spent my whole life waiting for crisis. i have built so much of my perception of time around endings. i have felt for so long the…