I WISH I COULD GET DIVORCED: On Always Being the Only Parent
April 25th, 2018 | by Allison Langer
I’m jealous of my divorced friends. They get up to 15 kid-free days every month. They can sleep in, go
Browsing the "Loss" Category
Early and Often: An Adoption Story in Circles
April 24th, 2018 | by Cheryl Klein
My son’s favorite book right now is Babies Come from Airports, a sweet, rhyming story narrated by an adopted child
Stalling
April 19th, 2018 | by Juanita E. Mantz
I bought the electronic pregnancy test at Walmart. I was three days late and I had to pee so I
The Miscarriage: A Poem
April 11th, 2018 | by Ingrid Jendrzejewski
The Miscarriage I am a battleship, sinking. When the USS West Virginia went down at Pearl Harbor,
The Uncertainty (or, Incompetence)
April 5th, 2018 | by Caitlin Vestal
When my friend was 12 weeks pregnant, she called me to ask if she should get a cerclage (that is,
Eggs: A Comic on Stillbirth, Loss, and Breakfast
January 18th, 2018 | by Nidhi Chanani
My most personal comic about eggs and my first pregnancy. I want to be clear that I am not anti-vegan
HIDDEN MOTHER: An Excerpt
January 10th, 2018 | by Laura Larson
In 19th century portrait studios, photographers employed a number of different strategies to stabilize the body during the long exposures
Not Remembering My Mother
January 5th, 2018 | by Amanda Webster
I don’t remember my birth and my mother probably didn’t either, lost in a medically-induced twilight sleep, common practice in
The Red House in the Marigny
December 12th, 2017 | by Hannah Baker Saltmarsh
Two summers ago when New Orleans was still home, a drunk driver cruised our street while passed out on the
What They Were Told—Detroit 1967
November 21st, 2017 | by Elisa Sinnett
I felt it before I was born, felt my father’s pulsing prayer. “Not another girl, not another girl, please Jesus,