I didn’t want to write about the break-up. I wanted to write about the Purple Martins: 150,000 of them who, on their way to Brazil, had stopped over in Nashville…
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Food and Covid-19: Monastic
by Guest Contributor April 27, 2021My hands don’t look like my own. They remind me of my mother’s in her wedding photos. (Are wedding photos taken for the sole purpose of perfecting the image of…
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Rewind
by Guest Contributor March 26, 2021Image Credit: Goodreads In middle school, I remember eagerly anticipating the start of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders. The story, my teacher and friends told me, was electrifying and…
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WOVEN: Sisyphus Syndrome
by Angela Youngblood March 10, 2021WOVEN 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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Metaphors matter. They shoot the right smile, the right handshake, the right colors, posters squirreling. They eye the right clock, ready their knees to implode with the right cascade of…
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How Bodybuilding Ruined My Life
by Guest Contributor November 5, 2019Image Credit: Ray Nalangan (Please Wake Up) I remember the first time I saw Sarah. I was working for the Department of Physical Therapy in the intensive care…
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WOVEN: A Map of Survival
by Guest Contributor October 23, 2019WOVEN 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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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…
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Spacecraft Press
by Entropy August 27, 2019Website Submission Guidelines Interview with Ken Hunt, Editor How did Spacecraft Press start? Spacecraft Press began in 2014, when I was having a conversation with derek beaulieu. We were talking…
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Literacy Narrative: Reader, I’m Literate
by Guest Contributor August 22, 2019Image Credit: Camile Corot, A Woman Reading It’s May 10, 2019, and it’s a sweltering evening in middle Georgia—specifically Milledgeville, Georgia—home of Flannery O’Connor (a Georgia College and State…
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The Loose Ends of Loss: When Someone Dies Mad At You
by Guest Contributor July 19, 2019In the months following Abbey’s overdose, I wrote about her endlessly. I made lists about things she loved (frozen yogurt, Pusheen, sunglasses), noted specific details I was afraid that I…
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I Prefer Not To
by Guest Contributor June 11, 2019Image Credit: Charlie Chaplin. Modern Times (1936). I was running on the promenade that lines Brooklyn along the bay of the New York harbor, which stretches from Gravesend to Bay…
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Shit Town
by Guest Contributor April 19, 2019Image Credit: George Coletrain There’s nothing like being young, and leaving some place. —Bruce Springsteen There’s not a lot to love about being from New Jersey. There’s the…
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WOVEN: Torn Just For Wanting
by Guest Contributor November 28, 2018WOVEN 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…