Mermaid: Excerpted From HARNESSING GRIEF: A MOTHER’S QUEST FOR MEANING AND MIRACLES
February 18th, 2021 | by Maria Kefalas
It seemed I lived with the humans but was no longer one of them
Browsing the "Loss" Category
The Arrangements: An Excerpt from THE NIGHT LAKE
February 2nd, 2021 | by Liz Tichenor
The worst phone call I would ever have to make needed to be done this day: the call to the funeral home.
See Saw
December 28th, 2020 | by Jill Stukenberg
How old or what grade are your children? I have one son who turned seven in May. That was after
Advent 2020
December 21st, 2020 | by Ezra Stone
ONE: A wave of grief for everything that came before Today, the clouds are like ribs, like my ribs close
Crescent
June 30th, 2020 | by Becca Rose Hall
There’s more sex where that came from, says your daddy, and of course we’ll try again. Nothing is wrong; it is only sad. Nature believes in redundant abundance.
Pregnancy and Loss in the Time of Coronavirus
April 23rd, 2020 | by Cass Lewis
Just as the coronavirus outbreak began in New York, I started experiencing flu-like symptoms. But I’d been pregnant enough times
On Brevity
March 24th, 2020 | by Dana Robinson
I recalled the joyous phone calls of only a few months before, as I steeled myself to dial those same numbers, but with a very different message this time
In the Fire
February 20th, 2020 | by Cheryl Klein
Repetition is part of understanding. But it is a little bit torturous to have to tell your child the story of your mother’s cremation again and again.
Liminal State: The Mire
December 5th, 2019 | by Maria Photinakis
This is a comic about giving birth in a time of loss; the final installment in a four-part series.