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* * * holding in one clawed foot, the fruit, the parakeet thrusts its beak into the brilliant fig, plucking hard at the pith it’s another one of those nights,…

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…

Vanishing Twins: A Marriage by Leah Dieterich Soft Skull Press, 2018 304 pages / Soft Skull   To choose freedom against coupling is an unpopular preference, one not the least celebrated in…

Photo Credit: Mikhail Vasilyev God damn it was hot. That’s how I remember it. Heat and dirt and a white sky. Our shirts were off and the sun’s rays, thousands of…

I was first introduced to Maged Zaher—the poet and the person—via our mutual friend Jen Hofer. 2014, AWP, Maged’s adopted home town of Seattle, WA. But we did not meet…

*This essay contains spoilers for all three seasons of Netflix’s Orange is the New Black* In Orange is the New Black’s Litchfield Women’s Prison, food is a primary object of affection,…

Two-headed feelings each have their own brains, which is the characteristic that differentiates them from two-faced feelings. The condition of two-headedness in feelings is most often caused by a developmental…

Gilles Deleuze was wrong when he claimed that we no longer live in the society of the spectacle. When he claimed, before leaping to his death in Paris, that we…

Reviewers have described Nicholas Grider’s debut story collection Misadventure (A Strange Object, 2014) as a book that “would warrant curiosity if it were photocopied, stapled together, and passed out at…