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Rachel Lutwick-Deaner
Aug 1513 min read
Nursing Mother
“A mother who has had a baby in the hospital should insist on keeping him with her 24 hours a day. Unwrap the baby, keep him in your bed,...
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Jenn Zatopek
Jul 145 min read
A Brief Remembrance of My Father
My father had moments of crystalline clarity in which he would say something that would stop me in my tracks, making me pause to catch my...
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John F. Miglio
Apr 3015 min read
Killing Malice
My stepmother’s name was Alice, but I called her Malice because she haunted my childhood and was the evilest person I ever knew—and for...
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E.C. Traganas
Feb 299 min read
Stone Castings
Herculaneum, 79 AD (Back in the 1980s, over three hundred carbonized skeletal remains were discovered submerged along the coastline of...
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Krin Van Tatenhove
Feb 111 min read
Leaving New Orleans
“This is my favorite part of the drive,” said Alberto. We were cruising over the 18-mile span of the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge, en route...
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Richard Lehan
Dec 15, 20239 min read
Lipoma
1. Vin stood in front of the bathroom mirror studying the lump protruding from his left shoulder. Pinching it between his thumb and index...
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Kathleen Chamberlin
Dec 1, 202322 min read
At the Corner of Humboldt and Spruce
There was something about the house at the corner of Humboldt and Spruce that gripped the imagination and drew the eye to it. It wasn't...
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Luisa Kay Reyes
Nov 1, 20237 min read
Land of the Free
It was an ambush! John Ware and his South Carolina militia men had successfully defeated the well-armed redcoats at the bridge. But...
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Jenn Zatopek
May 20, 20236 min read
Leaving My Mother Behind
(Content warning: this story contains sensitive material related to child sexual abuse, rape. Please read at your own discretion.) At the...
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Michael Fryd
Apr 28, 20239 min read
Willow
I’ve lived five years next door to Ira Schwartz, but we never exchanged more than a brief hello. I stopped in to check on him a few...
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Krin Van Tatenhove
Mar 30, 202319 min read
Baby Bridget's Ashes
Adrian Reynosa awaited his final appointment of the day. He was weary of urine tests, paperwork, perfunctory questions with equally...
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Rebecca M. Blackwell
Feb 13, 20236 min read
Fun (and NOT so much) with Dementia: One Couple’s Journey with Love and Loss
(Note: the following are excerpts from Rebecca M. Blackwell’s book published in 2022. Here is a link for the full copy). For most people,...
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Pieter Van Tatenhove
Jan 15, 202314 min read
Where Can I Flee?
1 It was a cool fall evening, the sky gray and the air still. I tied the goldenrod with a blue ribbon and held it in my hand as I walked,...
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Yasmin Gudino
Dec 30, 20223 min read
Choice Is What Gives Me Hope
There is no escape for you except by a radical psychological transformation of yourself. – Neville Goddard I believe that some people are...
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