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Jacqueline Goyette

Summer's End We eat panzerotti piping hot -- freshly fried dough, mozzarella, tomato sauce that is salty, tangy, thick -- on a bench behind a...
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Elizabeth Koster

Half Moon The mud was so t­hick we unbuckled our sandals and slid in that slick mineral earth, sludge squished between our toes. Giggling, giddy,...
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Mary Ann McGuigan

The Assignment Miss Irving’s voice is nasal but forceful. As she reads the essay, she pauses now and then and looks at the class—most of...
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Anna Rollins

Lemons To begin, we mix frozen lemonade concentrate with a wooden spoon. We set up with a sign, Solo cups, and a plastic pitcher at...
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Jacqueline Doyle

  Ode to My Cat, Ten Years Gone Like a boy named Sue, you were a girl named Bert, because our young son loved his uncle’s...
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Lori Barrett

Driving Without a Map Our warm bodies glow in the dashboard lights. My youngest, their boyfriend, and I follow the white lane lines and the...
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Lauren Fath

How to Leave Without Saying Goodbye I’ve begun to feel, if not hope then what comes just after— or before— Let’s not call it regret, but this weight, or weightlessness, or just plain waiting. The ice...
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Sally Anderson Boström

The Other One On the day I dare myself to have a drink in the city, alone, I end up sitting behind you. Someone I...
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Katy Scarlett

On Homemaking When I was eight, a young woman died alone in her apartment. And when I was nine, and ten, and every year after,...
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Karen Kao

Food Fight Grandma was born in 1892 in a village south of Shanghai, the name of which has been lost to family history. It might...
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