On the first day of the semester I and three of my classmates are lying on the cold grass by the beach, watching the sky. An airplane arcs above us,…
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Image Credit: Bryan Engelmann I stepped outside of the medical plaza and texted my husband. The baby is dying. I’m going to miscarry again. He was several blocks away,…
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Image Credit: Florida Memory, State Library and Archives of Florida Your teacher made you practice crouching under desks barnacled with ancient snot. Her sentences were rough with words like…
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The weird thing about getting older is how people stumble into my life whom I haven’t seen in years, it’s a time loop, someone whose whereabouts were unknown, and then…
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“Dear Journal, I am Emily May. I am ten years old. I am not sure what I am going to be for Halloween”: so began the first page of 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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Paintings 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…