On Adopting My Biological Child
January 15th, 2025 | by D.M. Hartshorn
I gave birth during the first Trump inauguration. Now, I’m adopting my biological child before he takes office again.
Browsing the "divorce" Tag
Maman
January 9th, 2025 | by Catherine Cleary
In the months following my divorce, I became preoccupied by a spider
It’s Cold Here in the Winter
November 1st, 2024 | by Rachel Aimee
The beauty of our surroundings makes everything more painful
Keening
July 17th, 2024 | by Patricia Harrelson
My milk ducts equate grief with suckling, a confusing equation calculated astonishingly in my breast
I’ll Nurse the Baby, You Sharpen the Knives
May 30th, 2024 | by Becca Rose Hall
If I’m gestating, birthing, nursing, mothering, I want someone to take on some other things for me
The Urge to Disappear
May 3rd, 2024 | by Amy Shearn
Why do so many women fantasize about running away from home
Inside Out: Going Mad and Garlic Greens
December 14th, 2023 | by Brett Ann Stanciu
The rub was, of course, I loved him
Sea Watch
October 23rd, 2023 | by Amanda Fields
I should have stopped it when he told me that his cat likes crazy women, and his cat likes me.
D is for Divorce
August 10th, 2023 | by Sara Sadek
Divorce, assuming shared custody, does what most marriages don't: it protects at least some of a mother’s time from being simultaneously beholden to both the paid work of her profession and the unpaid work of mothering.