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Loss

The Way Loretta Says Mommy

October 24th, 2022 | by S. Lynn Alderman

There’s no room for falling apart in the mountains, in the mines. In the company houses wondering if the doctor will make it in time. Collecting water from a spring on another holler because what runs to the house is poisoned by the same company that issues the pay that sustains you.


Birth Stories

Lawton, Oklahoma

August 2nd, 2022 | by Melissa Wabnitz Pumayugra

Mere hours after she died in the room alone, stale potato chips left on the adjacent table, my son emerged.


Loss

Close-up of a blonde-haired woman, circa the 1980s, with a big smile. She holds onto a bearded man with a cigarette.

My Mother’s Manhattan

March 29th, 2022 | by Natalie Serianni

One Cocktail Glass For twenty years, I’ve been haunted by the clinking ice in her glass, the whiff of nostril-burning


Loss

In a photo from 1984, a mother with large glasses rests her chin on the shoulder of her young pigtailed daughter, looking at her warmly

A Long, Long Way from Home

January 25th, 2022 | by Anna Villegas

You understand that what displaces you from full citizenship on the earth is the loss of an attachment you never had



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