The x-ray tech doesn’t drape a lead apron across my body. She doesn’t even fully leave the room. She only tells me to point my toes to the ceiling and…
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A pair of ravens rattles in a cage near the Polar Bear exhibit at the Maryland Zoo. You admire the sheen of their feathers, the sleekness of their preening. Visitors…
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A couple of weeks before COVID-19 closed down all the restaurants in NYC, Paul the server was standing in the kitchen, waiting for a pasta course to be plated. Paul…
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I knew it was time to leave Brooklyn when it was so quiet I heard them. Loud, on a 6:00 p.m. walk with the dog around the park. Not pigeon…
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Image Credit: “Self-Portrait” by Egon Schiele (1911) After twenty minutes on the phone with Andrew, our friend in L.A., who had just asked “so what’s on your mind lately,”…
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* * * the virus rested like dew on the grass but they still came back arrogant, red-breasted thin and then fat, as if they didn’t know better spotting the…
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Julien’s head tilted back, tufts of blond hair bolting out from under his hat, he points and yells, burr. There’s a pair—the slender, lemon-bellied flycatchers. Che che jey jey…
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1. These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home by Bayo Akomolafe (North Atlantic Books, 2017) “[E]verything begins in the middle. There are no…
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LAUREN BARNETT is a comic artist and painter. She’s been posting a new comic every day for over 12 years (now on Instagram ) and has a bunch of books…