After the Fire, the Ruins Still Warm by Tania Winther
The truth is I was not mourning just you.
I was mourning the version of myself that still trusted fire....
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Just Listed by Sarah Lewis
The house where I was sexually assaulted just was just listed for sale....
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Doors by Sarah Edge
She felt an urge to shed like a snake, to wriggle out of life and be new again — to walk through another door, to discover again, a new version of herself....
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Genealogy Dealt the Fatal Blow to My Marriage by Barbara Krasner
I spent hours reviewing emails from new genealogy friends, making entries in my research log, and mapping out family relationships....
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A Degas Tattoo by Katherine Elena-Hanson
Degas, famous impressionist artist that he was, doesn’t hold up well in the court of treating humans respectfully. Regardless, I still love his work....
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Intermittent Rivers by Tina Carlson
By mid-summer the river is mostly dry. People living on the banks have moved to more shade. I sit in its sandy bed, which sifts through my fingers....
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Cocktails in Jaffa by Elena Shakhnovskay
We quietly check our phones to see if Iran has attacked yet or if we can still finish those cocktails....
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Would That Make Me the Atheist’s Wife? by Madeline Dietzman
Translation: You’re not here enough for a pastor’s wife....
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The Smell of Fresh Mint: On Signs and Synchronicities by Jessica Steward
She is with me every time I smell fresh mint, and it transports me to her garden....
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Learning to Figure Skate at 34 as a Chinese Canadian American Woman by Xing Zhang
On the first day of figure skating class, I felt like I jumped into the deep end of a pool without knowing how to swim....
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Dirty Spanish by Lauren Brockmeyer
Like the history of the island itself, the history of Puerto Rican Spanish is complicated, blended together from all the cultures that have influenced it....
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Bordering on Absurdity by Kirk Astroth
We maintain our Humane Borders website’s “death map” to hammer home the appalling reality that Arizona is a land of open graves....
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Is Everybody Comfortable? by Trish Cantillon
I was mesmerized by the ease with which she moved through life; a wonderful mixture of pride, sass and being comfortable....
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Hunger Strike by Hannah Bottigheimer
And then it hits me: I am witness to my own hunger strike....
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Damn You J. D. by Thom Schilling
Along the way, J. D. Salinger taught me how to exasperate a hypocrite....
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The Photo Never Changes by Christopher Liverman
Maybe that’s the essence of grief — being frozen in a photograph while the rest of your life moves on without permission....
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Ten Stolen Dollars: Who We Were, Who We Are by Michael Collard
That version of me—the one trembling on the asphalt, clutching ten stolen dollars—isn’t the whole story....
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On the Edge by Ayoung Kim
She pulled over onto an unpaved section perilously close to the edge, beyond which the mountain dropped in a near vertical line....
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The Last Baton by Emily Sexton
The baton met my palm like a struck match: quick, hot, igniting something deep in my chest. I ran....
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Arrangements by Anne Dougherty
My mom moves across the room now to her closet, and is gathering clothing to wear for the week. She’s going up before us to help make the arrangements....
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Bordering on Absurdity by Kirk Astroth
We maintain our Humane Borders website’s “death map” to hammer home the appalling reality that Arizona is a land of open graves....
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When the Ghost Came Calling Again by Lisa Brodsky
But like a ghost, cancer is a master of return. And so, we must learn to live with this haunting, not in fear, but with eyes wide open....
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Diamond Girls by Amanda Izzo
Of all the times for Neil Diamond’s songs to make a mental appearance, it felt appropriate. And welcomed....
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A Triptych of Deaths in Three Decades by Matthew Curlewis
Because there we were: three athletic young men dressed in tight, turquoise blue wet suits with black trimmed gills ‘n all, helmets with shark fins protruding from our heads, and wraparound mirror eyewear....
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The Importance of Being Roberta by Carole Morrell
Roberta was a very intense graduate student from New Jersey, and she was not going to hear of this happening again....
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High School Lessons by Barbara Chiarello
One year a high school friend came over on my birthday. She was shocked that I had no birthday cake. I wasn’t. ...
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Pain by Numbers by Samantha Woods
Pain is everything from the ache in my jaw to the grief I felt at my grandmother's bedside....
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Finding Purpose in the Wake of Loss by Andrea Magder
What I failed to recognize then was that hollow ache I was feeling wasn't solely derived from my loss, but that it stemmed from something deeper....
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Conversations With My TherApIst: Why ChatGPT is good for more than cheating on your writing by Matthew Godwin
For the past few months, I'd been using ChatGPT in ways that would make Silicon Valley evangelists either deeply uncomfortable or oddly proud....
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Made In the U.S.A with Exotic Parts by Giulia Levy
They talk to each other about their days, about the news, their fears, their communities, the conversation sliding to I.C.E....
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