Guai Girl By Anyu Ching FollowFollowFollow I often find myself thinking about the first time. The sound and spring of it. How the unconscious, bite-sized action of an even smaller child would go on to spur a lifetime of torment and disdain. Had I learned how to talk...
The Lay of Our Land by Angela Belcher Epps FollowFollowFollow I’m finally hitting my stride after last semester’s rocky start. It was a maddening experience because everything looked great on paper. My lesson plans aligned so perfectly with the State standards for...
A Woman’s Right to Bear by Tasha Bovain FollowFollowFollow Photo by Matthias Wagner via Unsplash Before I knew what I wanted to do for a living as an adult, I imagined my life as a mother, reading bedtime stories and playing dress up with my daughter. I come from a...
I Was Supposed to Stay Out When the Bedroom Door Was Closed by Holly Fine FollowFollowFollow Cigarette burn holes in my cardigan meant Mom kept me close. I counted them in her comforter, seared edges lined up like Orion’s Belt. Ashes into wormholes into news anchors...
When The Mermaids Came by Holly Barratt FollowFollowFollow It was early Valentine’s Day morning when the first one washed up dead near Bridgend. By 10am there was a crowd around the rotting carcass. Eventually three officers broke through, dragged it up the beach,...
New in The Keeping Room: Banned Book Week, by Kim Brown FollowFollowFollow Read “Banned Book Week” by Minerva Rising Press Executive Editor, new in The Keeping Room magazine for women. read the post MINERVA RISING PRESS publishes thought-provoking and...
Banned Book Week by Kim Brown FollowFollowFollow Images by Kim Brown from The Bookstore of Glen Ellyn This past week, I was walking down the street of the town where I live with my two-year-old granddaughter, who had recently had a meltdown at the Mexican restaurant...
A Lesson in Art & Life by Geri Lipschultz FollowFollowFollow Photo of Denali by author I’ll say right now that I did not see Matanuska Glacier or Kenai fjords or Resurrection Bay or the bright blue ice, and I did not venture to fly into the frozen recesses of...
Journal Issue 23 available now FollowFollowFollow Issue 23, Subversion, is available now! The poetry, essays, and stories in Issue 23 – Subversion are a testament to how words can bridge our differences and serve as an antidote to the effects of oppression and...
Awakening by Mary Lane Potter FollowFollowFollow Painting by Miriam Zora Engel (author’s daughter) “Do you know what dust is?” my twelve-year-old daughter asks, looking up from her biology homework. Her voice swells with the power of knowing and the promise of youth....
