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January 2019The mistake 99 percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.
J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy
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January 2019You had the face of a man who couldn’t help understanding everything — all of it, the whole pathetic, tragic human thing — and that draws people in. To me you were a magnet of kindness.
By J.E. McCaffertyJanuary 2019We develop courage by coming out of hiding, coming out of the closet, and there are thousands of closets.
By Amy AmorosoJanuary 2019Throughout it all, I put one foot in front of the other, watching the gray ribbon of road unspool beneath me.
By Megan FulwilerMarch 2018— from “Better Than Expected” | Things were not as bad as I had thought. / The scrape in the fender of the rented car / could be hidden with a little white paint / before I returned it to the agency.
By Tony HoaglandAugust 2017I walk past the Kwik Trip where you found me / in the dumpster, tunneling for canned food. / Past the VFW where you bought us burgers, / newspaper now taped over the windows.
By Anders Carlson-WeeJune 2017My mother is a wood thrush, and my father is a great snipe. They aren’t my parents in this utopia. They’re birds who met once, then drifted apart, as birds do, so they could lead their own lives and become who they were meant to be. They have no children, bird or otherwise, tugging them in a different, boring direction.
By Debbie UrbanskiApril 2017While my father was stationed in Germany and dating my mother, he wrote her a letter saying, “Someday I’d like to have twins with blond hair and blue eyes.” Twenty-seven years later, here I am, one of his identical blond-haired, blue-eyed twin girls.
By Megan Denton RayApril 2017The young couple and their two small sons / Drive from the city to pay for and take the keys / To my old family Volvo — a car, like a house, / Full of memories, full of departures and returns.
By Karen WhalleyFebruary 2017Personal, political, provocative writing delivered to your doorstep every month—without a single ad.
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