A Scar That Burns by April McCloud FollowFollowFollow Photo by Hannah Grace via Unsplash The thing I remember most about dying, is how much it burns. Gasping for air, returning to life, the pain is exquisite. Everything else is burned away as the heat and fire...
Why Motherhood by Shay Galloway FollowFollowFollow My mother did not want seven children. She birthed me at the age of seventeen, her high school diploma incomplete, her own mother slowly dying. I imagine the discovery of my conception was not one of joy and wonder,...
The Turquoise Mountains by Anne-Marie Delaunay-Danizio FollowFollowFollow My first canvas hangs on the wall of my art studio in Waltham, MA. It is an abstract landscape of blues, browns, and purples, evoking mountains, lakes, and volcanoes. Throughout the first part...
Country Mouse and City Mouse by Katherine Riegel FollowFollowFollow For Carolyn 1. One of us thinks too little about weight. One of us thinks too much. She is all angles, like the drawings of women in pattern catalogs at the fabric store. I am all rounded: my chin, my...
We Are Doing Our Best by Eileen Cunniffe FollowFollowFollow We are everywhere, the middle-aged, aging daughters and sons. Watch us folding walkers and wheelchairs into trunks, and then unfolding them again in handicapped spaces or next to sidewalk cutouts. Watch us as...
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...
