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June 10, 2025

Time: A Brief Manifesto My lover and I fight about time. We fight about how much time we spend and don’t spend together. We fight when...

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May 27, 2025

Reforming One summer, I took a bath each day. I was not sure who I was, or how to be me. Some days I was...

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May 6, 2025

At the Grave I'd have said the reason I went was to see if their names were spelled correctly on the stone. I approached, flinching...

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April 22, 2025

While Attempting to Write about My Sister I think of how our dad enlisted us in yard work—nonoptional—and the weight of moving rocks from one...

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April 1, 2025

What I Understand I dreamed of a man with a gun in a food store and how he brought me with him to a corner....

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March 25, 2025

The Cold is Called Winter As a child, I don’t remember once noting the ritual graying of the sky or greening of the earth. I...

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January 28, 2025

A Helping Hand It’s winter and my mom’s standing in the kitchen of my moldy flat in the outskirts of Greater London, chopping Romano...

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December 10, 2024

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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October 22, 2024

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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September 3, 2024

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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