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At dusk, everything blurs and softens. / From here out over the long valley, / the fields and hills pull up / the first slight sheets of evening, / as, over the next hour, / heavier, darker ones will follow.
By Linda McCarristonMarch 2022A new feature in the magazine, A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.
March 2022I’d never been taught how to say no to an adult — nor even to consider the possibility that it might be necessary to do so.
By Mark BrazaitisMarch 2022The cows were getting sick and wasting away. They were developing tumors. Their teeth were turning black. Calves were stillborn or born with cloudy or deformed eyes.
By Tracy FrischMarch 2022I’m the one who was so desperate for a dog that I sat on the wood floor of our living room, hour after hour, week after week, and memorized the dog section of the encyclopedia.
By Esther EhrlichFebruary 2022I should have seen the breakup coming. After just a few months with Shaye I was frightened by her inability to make concrete plans for the future. She was like an iceberg: pretty from far off, but scary the closer you got.
By Dave ZobyFebruary 2022This morning the receptionist ushers me / into the Magnolia Room, reserved / for those receiving a “different type” / of mammogram, although I can discern / no obvious difference from the Dogwood Room, / where I waited last week for the usual sort, / the one about which my friends and I joke / and pretend we schedule as casually as a teeth-cleaning.
By Rebecca BaggettFebruary 2022I have bipolar II disorder, which is characterized by rock-bottom lows interspersed with occasional bouts of manic hyperactivity. After some tweaking of my antidepressant cocktail, this maelstrom, too, will pass. I just have to lash myself to the mast and wait.
By Kathleen FoundsFebruary 2022February 2022A memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Going natural, looking professional, shaving it all off
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