Essay: This Joker Who Wants to Kiss Your Mother by Maggie Dove
There’s a certain hot rage when a man shows up at the door to take your mother on her first date since the divorce. The moment he says, “Hi, I’m […]
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Essay: The Mother Seal by Julia Rocchi
Her shape—long, rotund, dark gray except where damp sand smears her pelt—is the first mass we see at Tunnels Beach on Kauai, Hawai’i.
Dither Dither Dumpling: A Tribute to John McCain by Nate Haken
Wander around Washington, DC long enough in a bow tie and a flag pin, you can land any number of free five-course meals replete with stemware and a salad fork. This luncheon was something special though.
Essay; My Marching Band by Michael Royce
Causes, in many ways, similar to those that felled the young men I knew: jungle rot, youthful folly, despair, and gunfire.
Nonfiction: Already Yesterday by Richard Prins
“White expats like to say there are three types of us in Africa: missionaries, mercenaries, and misfits. I was, obviously, the misfit.”
Essay: A Prayer Called Raspberry Affair by Chris Milam
This is a scared man’s bet.
Essay: Life Lists by Elizabeth Felicetti
Many birders keep track of the birds we’ve seen on a “Life List,” with species, date and location.
Essay: Other Things Lost by Hannah Gordon
The cancer chews holes in my bones.
I lose pieces of my skull.
Essay: Sorrow for the Wings by Shawn McClure
I saw the dream hens waking and stretching their wings, remembering the sky.
Essay: But It Is Dark by Jennifer Fliss
“If I fly far enough, the blue lights will engulf me and carry me up.”
