September 17th, 2020 | by Carla Rachel Sameth
I read the warning label: Watch out for signs
of Virus Fatigue like drinking alone early in the day and cutting
everything up in your house to make masks though you’ll never
leave the house again
September 15th, 2020 | by Dana Salvador
We took our temperatures and watched
the white petals shake themselves free,
September 10th, 2020 | by Lisa Nowlain
I miss my job like I miss someone I love very much but breaking up was still the best
September 8th, 2020 | by Cheryl Klein
I have to queue up the apps, but he wants to do it himself. He screams, “It’s my tablet! Let go of my tablet!” I snatch it away. He hits me in the face.
September 4th, 2020 | by Robyn Jordan
It was like a graduate-level course in communicating boundaries
September 3rd, 2020 | by Miun Gleeson
I became mother-less six weeks before I became a mother.
August 31st, 2020 | by Lauren Tanabe
After months of attempting every contortion that existed in the space between her mouth and my breast, it became clear that if I wanted her to have my milk (and this, I knew I needed), it would have to be pumped, squeezed, and wrung out of me
August 28th, 2020 | by Teresa Yang
Early on I realized my dad was washing dishes without soap in the same sink where he oftentimes brushed his teeth, then storing them like wet sweaters in the unused, suspiciously moldy, dishwasher
August 27th, 2020 | by Cheryl Klein
I started from the things I am intimately familiar with. I am often at the receiving end of questions like “Why is my hair black?” or “Why is my skin different from my sister?”
August 25th, 2020 | by Jacqueline Ellis
On the new birth certificate, the adoptive parents’ names replace those of the child’s birth parents. There is a violence to this.