It’s funny that I should remember it as long when you so rarely wore it down.
A Letter to Mother with the Long Hair by Jen Machajewski
Category: Creative Nonfiction
Help Wanted: Pre-Emptive Griever by Casey Mulligan Walsh
Seeking someone compelled to obsess on the possibility of a tragic outcome in all situations….
Like a Flock of Homesick Cranes by Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt
No matter how much pressure I applied, Maman and Daddy maintained that Beirut was too dangerous for sleepovers.
An Index for Motherhood by Tiffany Doerr Guerzon
… anxiety / in all of us, see also: allergy…
Kansas by Melissa Goodnight
The carnival lights enticed. Purple and red reflecting off the wet blacktop. Freshly tarred.
Haunting by Sydney Chaffee
Your mother still comes to the soccer game every spring, the one we started in your honor the year you died…
Mr. Abenshein by Kristian Sean O’Hare
You can’t remember the punchline, or if there even was one. You just remember how he stood in front of the class….
Year of the Rabbit by Alida Miranda-Wolff
Fergus’s stiff body lay prone on the vinyl floor of our bunny room.
Spring Training by Deborah Heimann
You sit in the living room of your mother’s small apartment, a mug of ginger tea growing cold in your hands.
Squatter’s Rights by Ryen Nielsen
So, I’m reclined in this dentist meets serial killer torture chair, knees pressed to chest, heels in stirrups…
