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The breakfast rush was hitting its peak when we learned about the dead woman lying not far from Table Four.
By Erin McReynoldsFebruary 2020Joyas voladoras, flying jewels, the first white explorers in the Americas called them, and the white men had never seen such creatures, for hummingbirds came into the world only in the Americas, nowhere else in the universe.
By Brian DoyleJanuary 2020Abby has a progressive congenital disorder, fatal, and lives her young life with a deep-running current of wisdom in her spirit, a quiet equanimity to her understanding of what it means to be alive in a day that the rest of us can only feel as hint and shadow.
By Kerry HudsonJanuary 2020I want to be excused, at least this once, / from being me, and be instead someone / who sees daily things as miracles
By Owen McLeodDecember 2019My friend Gina and I have a pact: Should either of us die unexpectedly, the other will retrieve the shoebox of sex toys hidden in the deceased’s closet.
By Jennifer BowenDecember 2019— from “Things My Daughter Pretends” | that she has fairy wings that she / is seventeen that she can talk to dogs / in dog language
By Joe WilkinsNovember 2019The first time he calls the talk line, it’s because he wants to die. Whatever has happened in his brain has made him a stranger to himself.
By Katherine SeligmanNovember 2019Try to avoid symbolism and metaphors, and leave fate out of it, too. Fate was not preparing you for this loss when you were an eight-year-old farm girl and held that stillborn piglet for hours in the barn.
By Molly BashawNovember 2019He has developed a shorthand response to my entreaties: Landfill, he hisses, and he walks away.
By Angie McCullaghOctober 2019Personal, political, provocative writing delivered to your doorstep every month—without a single ad.
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