Browsing the "Loss" Category
This Was Not The Plan: On Birth, Grief, and a Pandemic Delivery
June 17th, 2022 | by Molly O. Kemper
It’s disheartening to hear someone sigh so morosely every time she looks up your vagina
A Story of Two Births
April 26th, 2022 | by Jennifer Alessi
Someone hit the call button. No one came.
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
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
Relentless Grief in Limitless Time: A Conversation with Angelo Madsen Minax about NORTH BY CURRENT
December 2nd, 2021 | by Meg Lemke
"So much of care can be described as queer intimacy, if people are willing to look beyond the lens of the nuclear family."
Losing my Father, Raising my Son
November 24th, 2021 | by Lindsey Newman
Among the last things Pa said to me were that he loved me, and he was proud of what an amazing mother I was
Shoplifting at Bloomingdales
November 19th, 2021 | by Jennifer Baum
Rumor was, at that time in the 1970s, Bloomingdales was the hottest pick up joint in town.
How to Make Pumpkin Bread 15 Years Later
October 5th, 2021 | by Megan Hanlon
Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and stir to combine grief with anger, relief with trauma, her eyes with yours
Bad Juju
September 1st, 2021 | by Denise Massar
How could I have been so stupid? So smug? You couldn’t let the universe know when you were flying high