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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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 / Essay
Echoes of Infertility and Stifled Grief
by Guest Contributor April 20, 2021Bathrooms are for torture. In these tiny spaces, often the smallest room in a home, I have lost my sense of self. Showers are for sobbing, ugly sobs that shake…
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We didn’t have a hummingbird feeder because I was scared that I would poison the birds. You have to be vigilant, sites for would-be hummingbirders warn, and clean the feeder…
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Before For months, while lying in bed, examining my underwear for blood, and staring at sonographers’ screens, I’ve wondered: when something seismic happens, will I recognize it? On message…
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
Am I Jew Enough? Questioning My Jewish Identity
by Guest Contributor September 21, 2020Image Credit: paper.prankster Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.” –Psalms 133 When my 11-year-old daughter informed me that she wanted…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFeatured
The Molting: How the Mother of an Addicted Teen Made Way for New Growth
by Guest Contributor September 11, 2020Image Credit: Casey Taylor By freshman year of high school my eldest son had broken more laws, bones, and hearts than any other child in our provincial town. With…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFeatured
The Sidewinder and the Emotional Bouncer
by Guest Contributor March 24, 2020October 24, 2019 Dear Marissa, You know that lonely feeling, the one where your heart hurts so bad it feels like it ruptured? Like in those National Geographic photos…
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Freedom. A Blue Jay flew in circles above the birdbath we had in our backyard the day my mother left. She left one cage only to walk into another. She…
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My seven-year-old lies on the fuzzy rug in her shared bedroom; the ball of her right foot is on top of her left and her arms stretch out in a…
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They say if you want love, to make it. Just before you took your place, I imagined you into my life and paved a chamber in my gut for you.…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFeatured
The Tilting of a Motherhood
by Guest Contributor February 28, 2020When my daughter was two days into her seventh year, my right heel slipped on black ice and my whole body was tossed into the cold January air, my head…
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
The Birds: The Unconcern of Eagles
by Guest Contributor February 17, 2020My turn, my turn, my turn! My kids shriek and race around the house, bickering over who gets to use the something next. It doesn’t really matter what it is.…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFeatured
If You Jump Into My Arms I Will Catch You
by Guest Contributor August 30, 2019Paintings by Miriam Feldman According to Wikipedia, a jumper (person), in police and media parlance, is a person who plans to fall or jump from a potentially deadly height, sometimes…