Chicken Feet by Andreea Ceplinschi FollowFollowFollow Alexandru & Andreea ca. 1987, photo from author’s family archives I could only love you the same way our mother loved chicken feet. We weren’t rich, but our grandparents raised chickens and mother could make...
Anticipatory Grief by Debbi Welch FollowFollowFollow Isn’t good old-fashioned grief enough? Loss, tears, the flooding of memories? I’ve grieved and am still grieving my mother, father, stepfather, and brother, as well as many other relatives and dear friends. I’ve sat...
Sonata by Julie Lockhart FollowFollowFollow C-sharp (#): Compositions in a minor scale, such as Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata in C# Minor,” can evoke a misty evening of sad contemplation, moody ruminations, even grief. When Michael lived with me before we married, I...
Grandma Helen by Stacy Alderman FollowFollowFollow The only picture I’d ever seen of my maternal grandmother was her wedding portrait. Its muted hues, her close-lipped smile, the bundle of blooms in her hands, were spread in canvas across a 10×12 frame, and this...
Educating Grandma by Marilyn Morgan FollowFollowFollow A product of the fifties, I grew up with Donna Reed, Pat Boone, and the most daring heartthrob of all, Elvis Presley. So when my fifteen-year-old granddaughter, Lia, said to me, “Grandma, I’m not a girl,” I felt...
Drawing Blood by Sherry Stratton FollowFollowFollow Blood draws have been hard on me my whole life. The medical techs tell me my veins are small. Sometimes they resort to a pediatric needle. And I’ve learned there’s such a thing as a “butterfly needle.” Once, I was...
Minerva Rising Winter Reading, February 21 FollowFollowFollow Join us for a triple book launch! Together, come listen to these three powerhouses read from their new books, How We Fracture by Karen George, Fig by Emily Wall, and Twenty-One Farewells by Emily Kerlin....
Fight Like a Girl by Justine Payton FollowFollowFollow CW: sexual violence The man who settled himself between my legs was twice my size. I immediately felt suffocated beneath the pressure of his weight, each inhale rattling against my throat. I was aware of...
Minerva Rising Press at AWP 2024 FollowFollowFollow Minerva Rising Press will be at AWP 2024 in Kansas City. Come say “Hi!” at the AWP Bookfair – Table 3317 AWP 2024February 7 – 10, 2024awpwriter.org This year, every submission made to the...
The Shattered Six-Year-Old Speaks and I Ask her to Return by Gabrielle Ariella Kaplan-Mayer FollowFollowFollow The shattered six-year-old Before the day I found out about the death camps, my world was Muppets and stories and waiting for the school bus. When I saw...
