Passing Notes: On Grief-Craft with Michelle Suzanne Mirsky
December 10th, 2024 | by Jessica Phillips Lorenz
I don't set my clock by the coming sadness
Browsing the "death" Tag
Walking into Traffic
May 2nd, 2024 | by Eileen Nittler
One day he will be gone for as long as he was alive.
The Way Loretta Says Mommy
October 24th, 2022 | by S. Lynn Alderman
There’s no room for falling apart in the mountains, in the mines. In the company houses wondering if the doctor will make it in time. Collecting water from a spring on another holler because what runs to the house is poisoned by the same company that issues the pay that sustains you.
Lawton, Oklahoma
August 2nd, 2022 | by Melissa Wabnitz Pumayugra
Mere hours after she died in the room alone, stale potato chips left on the adjacent table, my son emerged.
A Story of Two Births
April 26th, 2022 | by Jennifer Alessi
Someone hit the call button. No one came.
Why My Son Stopped Playing Fortnite
February 17th, 2022 | by Chanel Brenner
On the morning of April 1, 2019, I walked into our kitchen and found my ten-year-old son Desmond’s Xbox on
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.