In My Defense
November 19th, 2019 | by Odeta Xheka
The creator in me keeps a purposefully irregular schedule, craves solitude, must fade out of reach in order to work. The mother, the daughter, the wife doesn’t have a minute to herself
When the Doctor Has Bad News (Again)
November 11th, 2019 | by Erin Pushman
In the biopsy waiting game, each day is an eternity. You recite the possibilities like prayers—dense bone, bone infection, tumor recurrence
Angela James: Quiet Night
November 7th, 2019 | by Angela James
I have always wanted to be one of those artists that could create when I was feeling terrible. I wanted
A Ritual in Socks
November 5th, 2019 | by Francesca Dalleo
Parenting a child with health challenges is lonely. I am continually surprised at how others don't get it. They can't.
Champagne, Darling?
November 4th, 2019 | by Sandie Friedman
I wake up in my mother’s half of the bed—the bed she shared with my father, and later, perhaps, with
Liminal State: The Descent
November 1st, 2019 | by Maria Photinakis
A comic about giving birth in a time of grief.
Bonding and Unbonding: Poems
October 29th, 2019 | by Marion Deutsche Cohen
“What is it about babies?” #Poems
The Only One/The Lucky One
October 28th, 2019 | by Erin Pushman
Walking up to the surgery floor, you feel the weight of the year your daughter has spent fighting this tumor. But it’s not the kind that holds you down. It’s the kind you push through, like swimming through water
The Tooth
October 24th, 2019 | by Marisol Cortez
If the heroine is cautious or follows the rules, she remains a Good Girl, unchanged--end of story. But if she is a Birth Warrior, she does the One Forbidden Thing