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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There but for the grace of . . .
by Guest Contributor May 3, 2021Image Credit: rainbow mural by liturgical artist Diane Brandt 1. It had been only two months since Brother Oakley had told me I was cursed, and I was…
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The Birds: Saw-Whet
by Guest Contributor January 7, 2021It’s a terrible road to be running on, I know. The shoulder is gravelly and uneven. Trash is strewn about from the nearby dump. I normally don’t run on roads…
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The Birds: Little Birds
by Guest Contributor December 11, 2020Before we were told to avoid air travel, but after the lines at Costco were thirty people deep, the house finches chose our ledge. Through the window I saw one…
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Review: Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey
by Esa Grigsby October 1, 2020Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey: A novel by Kathleen Rooney Penguin Random House, August 2020 336 pages / buy-link A series of thin, alternating layers held together by a social gloop…
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Plants I’ve Loved
by Guest Contributor August 24, 2020The lover speaks in bundles of sentences but does not integrate these sentences on a higher level, into a work; his is a horizontal discourse: no transcendence, no deliverance, no…
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The Birds: A History of Birds
by Guest Contributor July 9, 20201. Origins and distributions We hear birds at night. I imagine they are cardinals but Lou argues for sparrows. We know for sure they aren’t supposed to be here. But…
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Queer Breaks
by Guest Contributor April 30, 2020Image Credit: Jesse Shofner Last winter, your father asked if “queer” was still a slur. He asked this carefully, as he always does when it comes to your sexuality.…
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Forest Whispers
by Guest Contributor April 23, 2020Aaron and I are staring through Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Pennsylvania masterwork. The famous house’s cantilevers stack themselves over Bear Run, the stream that runs through the house and climaxes…
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Gay Day at the Fair
by Guest Contributor February 18, 2020We arrive just in time to catch the tail end of the Youth Talent Showcase, drawn through the maze of fried-food stalls and dim animal-smelling warehouses by a thin, brave…
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Why Did He Have to Be So Good at Kissing?
by Guest Contributor February 14, 2020Image Credit: “Last One In” by Matthew Oliphant I’m sitting in my car, idling in front of the gated entrance to a storage facility in Fallbrook. It’s 11:30 PM.…
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Onomastics
by Guest Contributor February 7, 2020Ma, it’s been a while since we’ve talked, really talked. I’m not sure of the last time we had a conversation that we both wanted to be in, of the…
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Game Over Books
by Entropy December 3, 2019We do a lot of work behind the scenes, but the writers create the work so they deserve the most credit and profit for it. They are the reason we even have a project to work on in the first place.
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Math Paper Press
by Entropy October 22, 2019I believe there’s a need to publish outside one’s comfort zone. At its core, publishing is about pushing boundaries, and expanding mindsets. And if our publishing is not doing either function for us, it is a signal for us to get our act together.