Category: Essays

At the Edge of the Trailer Park – for Andrea

by Delaney McLemore | Jul 23, 2023 | Essays | 0 |

You define that decade of dream for me, mother-friend, you I hoped to be like when I grew up.

by Christine Feldman | Jul 9, 2023 | Essays | 8 |

I hope the sound of my voice is comforting and that on some level he knows me.

by Wendy Fontaine | Jul 2, 2023 | Essays | 4 |

Your lies are harmless, not so much untruths as they are fantasies.

by Mary H. Hui | May 28, 2023 | Essays | 3 |

I had fought against this Confucian hierarchy for years, wishing to be seen for who and where I was in my life.

by Karen Zey | May 7, 2023 | Essays | 11 |

How had she found this luminous line amid the darkness of her pain?

by Caleb Coy | Mar 26, 2023 | Essays | 3 |

Beyond that, road, then hills, then places beyond this where a person can disappear.

by Brett Ann Stanciu | Mar 19, 2023 | Essays | 4 |

Your garden’s gladiolas fold up their long-leaved blossoms every night and spread wide their lush colors again each dawn.

by Audrey Wick | Feb 26, 2023 | Essays | 6 |

But the secret I was keeping was that I felt so very weak.

by Jennifer Lang | Feb 12, 2023 | Essays | 0 |

For years, I thought home was lost.

by Anastasia Jill | Jan 29, 2023 | Essays | 0 |

Soon enough, I was going to be an orphan.

by Despy Boutris | Jan 8, 2023 | Essays | 0 |

I realize now I’m a ricochet of who I used to be, just a nest of hair working hard to make sense of my scars.

by Rebecca Fremo | Dec 4, 2022 | Essays | 0 |

I try to pull myself together.