Yearly Archives: 2024

Unceasing Intervals

In spite of my calculated attempts to maintain an impeccable workout and eating schedule, the demands of adulthood eventually interfered.

Ducklings

“Last time I thought I was saving ducklings, and I was the cause of all their demise,” he writes.

Our Work

When she arrived, all 5 lbs 4 oz of her, she latched, like a parasitic angel. I was so proud of our work.

Night Journey

She takes back the fig and carefully peels open the skin to reveal its bright pink flesh. It glistens in the sunlight.

Fantasy and Sacrifice in the Anthropocene

Called “teru teru bozu” in Japanese, the dolls are representative of the age-old human desire spanning cultures around the world to control the environment.

When the Grieving is Done

It got worse. But then it got better. Swimming the channel to the edge of insanity and back was exhausting but worth the trip.

Childhood Memory

Birdsong in the morning is the most beautiful music on this road. The birds are singing in the branches or soaring in the sky.

The Only Girl’s Awakening

While they had the usual arguments that brothers often have, they would never throw anyone out of the house and wouldn't do something like this to our father.

Waiting Room

I hate being here. The girl next to me looks sick and tired and I know I look just like her. Does she wake...

Spinster in the Attic

Unmarried at 42, without even knowing the box's contents, my aunt's message brought my old insecurities to the surface. I felt I belonged nowhere.

PSLF, I Love You

I’m thinking of my children’s school year approaching and my student debt accumulating, the future and the past inching toward me; me in the middle.

The March of the Brigadier General

I’d heard The March of the Brigadier General, courtesy of Miss Simon several times. Jaunty, is how she described it. “Practice those staccato notes,” she’d said.
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