The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) has a criteria on how to diagnose a narcissist. These symptoms reflect someone whose sense of self is rooted in hyperbole,…
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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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A month after Halloween, my friend S texted me a photo of the wig I left in his car. “What should I do with it?” It looked wounded. And yet…
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It is not often that you stay to watch a vaulted coffin be lowered into the dark, freshly churned earth. You stare into the rectangular abyss and it stares back,…
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Dried rosemary looks like chopped pine needles. I sprinkle them on course coffee grounds for my morning cup. I add rubbed sage while water boils in the microwave for me…
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Image Credit: Shuttershock Mama died at home on a Sunday morning. During the cancer, our rambling two-story brick and wood home in the hills of Topanga, a rustic canyon outside…
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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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Photo credit: Trisha Peck Oscillations: to hear it as a form To look out the front window and see her come through the gate, so that I open the…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFeaturedInterview“Cleanse, attend, recalibrate”: A Conversation with Ben and Sandra Doller
Somewhere, in an email nearly a decade old now, and in reference to a conversation I can’t quite recall, Sesshu Foster wrote something to the effect of “there’s a difference…
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FeaturedFictionInterview“Just one deep longing that wounds again and again and again”: A Conversation With Doug Rice
How to account for, much less explain, America’s malaise? Is it that our politics lack imagination, or that our imaginations too easily give into the temptations of ostensibly ideology-free escapism?…
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The guppies flap in the yellow water. Their mouths suck at the surface. They suffocate. Too many fish, too small of a bowl, even though it was beautiful at first…
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If you grow up Jewish, the phrase Never Forget can elicit a variety of things, including: memories; historical trauma; your perception of Anne Frank’s attic; and, most notably for me,…
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I have a terrible memory. My sister remembers much more than I do. Sometimes, she remembers things that I think she must have made up. She’s always had a tendency…
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