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by Angela Patera
On a crisp December day, my 16-year-old twins, Eric and Rachel, burst into the room, practically radiating excitement. Eric shared the news that their ...read the full piece >>Essay
by Madari Pendas
“Wild tongues can’t be tamed; they can only be cut out.” ― Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza I didn’t speak English when I ...read the full piece >>Essay
by tony lashden
This essay starts on September 25 th . The rent is overdue, and I’m lying in the bedroom calculating how many days we have before our landlord starts ...read the full piece >>Essay
by Mayumi Yamamoto
1 It was more than twenty years ago. My encounter with Tenten happened by chance on the university campus where I taught in those days. She seemed to ...read the full piece >>Flash Nonfiction
by Annika Nerf
I find you, self-contained in a ball, eyes closed. Front flower bed, 40°F, no snow. You lie nestled into the last shoots of the black-eyed Susans. You ...read the full piece >>Flash Nonfiction
by Viviana De Cecco
The first time I saw him, he was sitting in the shade of an oleander tree, on a stone bench a stone’s throw from one of the kiosks on the waterfront. ...read the full piece >>Supported by:
