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An unplanned pregnancy, a twisted ankle, a case of dynamite
By Our ReadersApril 2020Before you know what kindness really is / you must lose things, / feel the future dissolve in a moment
By Naomi Shihab NyeApril 2020He needs more time to brake / so he drives slow. He needs / more time to read traffic signs / so he drives slow.
By Michael MarkApril 2020He would have said, sometimes it’s not about the truth. Sometimes it’s about kindness. Especially when it comes to family.
By Sam RuddickApril 2020I will tell you this: If there is a God, he does not live in a slaughterhouse. That much I know. I hope the God everyone argues over so viciously is not looking out of those dead, glazed pupils, asking us to see him finally.
By Ann WuehlerApril 2020I was six years old when I became aware that death was something that would happen to me. I was in the car with my mom, in the backseat because she followed the rules, and we were on our way home from the grocery store.
By Sam BellApril 2020It was the first Friday of spring break, 1984, when I climbed into the bed of Greg’s compact truck, leaned back against the cab, and watched the keg party fade into the distance as we drove away.
By Kelly DanielsApril 2020What I do is sit with the creek. If it’s hot, perhaps I’ll sit in the creek. Two or three times, assisted by an inflatable pool toy, I have sat on the creek. But the preposition of choice remains with.
By Leath ToninoApril 2020The mare saw two of her herdmates die when she was captured. One, an exhausted gray stallion, fell and broke his neck in the trailer; the other, a chestnut foal, only weeks old, was chased until its leg fractured, and it had to be euthanized. That was the first this mare knew of our kind. Of our kindness.
By Chera HammonsApril 2020It’s important to compare things that are pretty alike, like humans and chimps, with their evolutionary ties, but when you find similarities between things that are ordinarily seen as very different, like humans and ants — that’s where the new ideas come from.
By Mark LevitonApril 2020Personal, political, provocative writing delivered to your doorstep every month—without a single ad.
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