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Jan 1, 20215 min read
Cats’ Intuition - Ann Liska
Once, God came to me in the form of a cat. Two thousand one had been a stressful year. I lost a job that I had held for years. I was...


Dec 30, 20205 min read
Naked Life - Lauren Melink
A girl walked by me while chatting with her friend. I overheard her say, “I love it. I’m not forced to hang out with anyone I don’t want...


Dec 28, 202020 min read
The Caller - Tamarah Rockwood
There was a surge of electricity across the wires after the transformer exploded on Osage Avenue. The sky washed white from the flash....


Dec 24, 20204 min read
Ice Hockey and Celine Dion - Maggie Edinger
Crinkle fries. I was willing to do anything to get my hands on those slender sticks of fried potatoes, and they only sold them at Fraser...


Nov 4, 20204 min read
It's Not a Fashion Statement - Kirsty Crawford
In order to get to high school, a decrepit-double decker bus would be mounted from the only village bus stop. The bus stop had one seat...


Oct 29, 20208 min read
Fighting the Shadows - Pauline Hawkins
Ian and I chuckled as we watched a viral MMA video that came across my feed. It was the Bellator fight that had a fighter wake up from a...


Oct 28, 20205 min read
Why I Shaved My Head and Why Other People Should Too - Saya Iki
This essay has to start somewhere, let’s pick a winter’s day in February of 2020. Imagine constantly having the urge to pull your hair...


Oct 18, 20208 min read
Double Cover - Renee Nicholson
For some time now, I have been thinking about, and sometimes writing about cover songs. By “writing about cover songs,” I usually mean...


Oct 13, 20202 min read
Peaches & Cream - Bailey Henderson
I could have imagined her hand in mine, a storm brewing in the molecules between our fingertips. Her nails, long and manicured, placed on...


Oct 6, 20203 min read
This Way Out - Jan Bartelli
For much of my childhood, I lived with my parents and seven siblings in a shabby, wooden tenement in Bridgeport Connecticut. The...


Oct 5, 20204 min read
Kelly - Misty Urban
My daughter’s in the backseat as we drive to zoo camp and since she’s old enough now I switch Pandora to my station and the Indigo Girls...


Oct 1, 20202 min read
Sea Glass - Elizabeth Lerman
The clouds set in right when I hit the highest height of the wave, the icy water soaking my skin and sending shivers through my head...
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