Something Is Wrong: An Excerpt From BLOW YOUR HOUSE DOWN
April 14th, 2021 | by Gina Frangello
I did not and will not regain my mother. I am the only mother now.
Browsing the "loss" Tag
Milk: An Excerpt from THE NIGHT LAKE
March 25th, 2021 | by Liz Tichenor
The breast pump had arrived that afternoon, the Monday after Fritz died, at the same time as a stout flat-rate box of hand-me-down clothes from my cousin, who I later heard felt horrible about the timing, having mailed the package when Fritz was still alive
A Letter to My Never-To-Be-Conceived Third Child
March 18th, 2021 | by Tiffany Graham Charkosky
I think of the possibilities we tamped down because we sought to eliminate our biggest fears
The Arrangements: An Excerpt from THE NIGHT LAKE
February 2nd, 2021 | by Liz Tichenor
The worst phone call I would ever have to make needed to be done this day: the call to the funeral home.
Pandemic Poetry: Leonore Wilson on ‘Palm Sunday’
September 21st, 2020 | by Leonore Wilson
No railing of the old pier to hold, no church with its elaborate white arch to enter, the shops are
Crescent
June 30th, 2020 | by Becca Rose Hall
There’s more sex where that came from, says your daddy, and of course we’ll try again. Nothing is wrong; it is only sad. Nature believes in redundant abundance.
Freaking Homeschool
March 26th, 2020 | by Sacha Mardou
How many kids are living through their unhappy childhoods right now, having lost their safe space?
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.
Losing One
January 8th, 2020 | by Anne Bruder
Only as I searched fruitlessly for archival news stories of the accident or narrated every detail, did I begin to think a bit less obsessively of my son’s death
My December Hate List
December 20th, 2019 | by Dartinia Hull
For the #haters. I begin hating everything around the first of November, at the first jingle of the first bell, and stay angry through December 29th