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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...
Jenn Zatopek
May 20, 20236 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...
Michael Fryd
Apr 28, 20239 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...
Krin Van Tatenhove
Mar 30, 202319 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,...
Rebecca M. Blackwell
Feb 13, 20236 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,...
Pieter Van Tatenhove
Jan 15, 202314 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...
Yasmin Gudino
Dec 30, 20223 min read
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