It’s All You Can Do
February 15, 2024
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Photo by Fabrice Villard on Unsplash by Louella Lester You chew the corner of the blue quilt Granny made for you because once it’s all soggy it squeaks
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Living in Monochrome
February 15, 2024
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Photo by Fabrice Villard on Unsplash by Louella Lester When she stopped seeing colour she told no one, except the dog, who’d already figured it all out after
Amongst the Unexpected Consequences of Climate Change
February 8, 2024
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Photo by Nikhil Prasad on Unsplash by Cath Barton It rained for a month in the autumn and the ground became a quagmire, the roads rivers. When it
The Names of the Bones
February 8, 2024
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Photo by Nikhil Singh on Unsplash by Jeff Friedman The bones had no names, no flesh either. Blood clung to them. They lay there for days in the
Another Shadow
February 8, 2024
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Photo by Wes Hicks on Unsplash by Jeff Friedman Hunger is eating my daughter. Driving from state to state, she lives on Trail Mix and Kind Bars—frail as
Kaddish
February 1, 2024
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Photo by Patrick Hendry on Unsplash by Karen Schauber His body lays still, skin flaky like paperbark. How long, she wonders, placing Myrtle across his chest —the white
Three Minutes into My Campaign Speech at the Fundraising Dinner, I Remember Our First Date
February 1, 2024
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Photo by Sri Lanka on Unsplash by Kathryn Kulpa In the moment before the bullets fly, I think of what I wanted to tell you. That you are
Diagnostics
February 1, 2024
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photo by repentandseekchristjesus Unsplash by Mikki Aronoff Exotosis…halitosis…cirrhosis, Gram intones as her gnarled right index finger presses down the digits on her clawed left hand—one for
On My Birthday, My Husband Surprises Me with Divorce Papers and a 50% Off Coupon for a Bungee Jump
February 1, 2024
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Photo by Eketerina – Unsplash by Mikki Aronoff Two gifts! Classy, I think, on the downward dizzy, the ravine a muddy blur of moose and pine. My bowels
Rain. Pizza. Rome.
January 25, 2024
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Image by Gabriella Claire Marino by Rina Palumbo In Rome, you feel the building up and wearing down of stone, concrete, and steel. That rainy