Bathrooms 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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Image: The author, mid 1990s The man who got me pregnant in the spring of 1994 was a massage therapist named Steve Swetman. He had a carpeted 2-bedroom house…
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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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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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Image Credit: “Better than We Ever Did” by Elizabeth Walker 2 weeks The doctor calls with the news. In the lab: the embryologist partners fifteen retrieved eggs and a thawed…
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Image: Author’s eldest child, Beatrice, three weeks before she died at 35 weeks in utero James Dean died in his Porche Spyder 500, after a collision at the intersection of…
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I was lying on my lofted bed in the basement of my freshman dorm when my mother called to ask if I was pregnant. The only light came from a…