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Theodora Ziolkowski

At the memory care center, the parlor resembles what was once my grandmother’s bedroombut with artificial flowers.Dixie cups swirl with pink ice cream,the coffee table...

Brad Snyder

Rituals Whenever the Yankees play the Twins I think of the child we never had. I regret the connection. It feels cheap for a baseball...

Stephanie Pritchard

Statistics “An estimated 23 million miscarriages occur every year worldwide, translating to 44 pregnancy losses each minute.” Quenby, Siobhan “Miscarriage matters: the epidemiological, physical, psychological, and...

Carol Alexander

Anniversary with Busted Taillight There remain the Pleiades, dark filling stations deer crossing signs, waspish hum of planes departing Teterboro. She belongs to the permafrost when we...

Jad Josey

Sunlight on Rue Saint-Augustin The flat is full of sunlight, too full of sunfor a morning after French wine andcherry blossom footsteps atop streets dark with...

Elinor S. Laurier

Flip You won’t remember how the inky shroud of night wrapped around our teenage bodies as we curled together on your bed, your breath hot...

Rebecca Brock

To My Father Whose Pitch Has Always Been About Surviving Years and years you triedto teach me.Now, I call hometo remind you of fragility—as if...

Sandra Fees

Yet No Less Happy On my birthday I vacuum my study then get carried away, sweep through the bedroom, bathroom. I drink an extra cup of coffee, praise...

April Lim

Flood: A Hurricane Essay Category 1 It starts with a small. A crawl. A creep of so much potential. The wind bending rain oh so slight....

Romana Iorga

The Other Side 1. I cradle it in the palm of my hand.An eggshell, still warm. Something hatched here—its scent clings to my dreamskin. I can almost feel its weight, this...

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