It's Not a Fashion Statement - Kirsty Crawford
In order to get to high school, a decrepit-double decker bus would be mounted from the only village bus stop. The bus stop had one seat...
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- Oct 29, 2020
- 8 min
Fighting the Shadows - Pauline Hawkins
Ian and I chuckled as we watched a viral MMA video that came across my feed. It was the Bellator fight that had a fighter wake up from a...
- Oct 28, 2020
- 5 min
Why I Shaved My Head and Why Other People Should Too - Saya Iki
This essay has to start somewhere, let’s pick a winter’s day in February of 2020. Imagine constantly having the urge to pull your hair...
- Oct 18, 2020
- 8 min
Double Cover - Renee Nicholson
For some time now, I have been thinking about, and sometimes writing about cover songs. By “writing about cover songs,” I usually mean...
- Oct 13, 2020
- 2 min
Peaches & Cream - Bailey Henderson
I could have imagined her hand in mine, a storm brewing in the molecules between our fingertips. Her nails, long and manicured, placed on...
- Oct 6, 2020
- 3 min
This Way Out - Jan Bartelli
For much of my childhood, I lived with my parents and seven siblings in a shabby, wooden tenement in Bridgeport Connecticut. The...
- Oct 5, 2020
- 4 min
Kelly - Misty Urban
My daughter’s in the backseat as we drive to zoo camp and since she’s old enough now I switch Pandora to my station and the Indigo Girls...
- Oct 1, 2020
- 2 min
Sea Glass - Elizabeth Lerman
The clouds set in right when I hit the highest height of the wave, the icy water soaking my skin and sending shivers through my head...
- Sep 29, 2020
- 3 min
Cowboy - L.C.
Maybe I would always be that resistant five-year-old girl whose sophisticated grandmother forced her into an Easter dress, a shawl, hat,...
- Sep 27, 2020
- 4 min
Sunrise - Kristine Sahagun
There isn’t a moment in time when I feel safe. It’s a constant battle fighting off triggers coming at me from social media, television...
- Sep 26, 2020
- 2 min
The Covid Risk Assessment Scale - Cristina Foss
My husband, Kevin, and I started measuring our potential Covid risk in unit of dogs: Dozer, our neighbor’s slobbery mastiff, is the...
- Sep 25, 2020
- 11 min
On Art & Identity - Molly Dickin
I love reading or listening to stories in music and poetry that write out the dreamscapes that play in my head-- not one that makes any...
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