When Women Were Birds There Were No Secrets
By Rebekah Morris Content warning: rape, child sexual abuse My Grandma Betty had a secret. The kind of secret that haunts you to your grave,… Read More »When Women Were Birds There Were No Secrets
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Reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in a Fog of Medication
By Quinn Forlini My sophomore English class was starting One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey when I was going to have surgery.… Read More »Reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in a Fog of Medication
My Year of Stress and Isolation: Reading My Year of Rest and Relaxation in Spring 2020
By Mary DeCarlo “______ makes me happy,” read a homework assignment I was given as a kindergartener. (Fill in the blank and draw a picture.)… Read More »My Year of Stress and Isolation: Reading My Year of Rest and Relaxation in Spring 2020
The Immensity of an Afternoon: Reading Berlin Stories
By Mariah Eppes “Strange, the way we look into each other’s eyes on a Sunday afternoon like this, as if we had something to say… Read More »The Immensity of an Afternoon: Reading Berlin Stories
Rereading Ramona as an Audiobook: How Different Mediums Affect How We Visualize Characters
By Claire Taylor I start my mornings with a cup of coffee and the sound of Stockard Channing’s voice. To fit my writing time into… Read More »Rereading Ramona as an Audiobook: How Different Mediums Affect How We Visualize Characters
Reading for Fun and Other Antidotes to Grief: Picking Up People We Meet on Vacation
By Miun Gleeson After some time off, I returned to therapy this month. And like all good writers-in-therapy eager to document the salient takeaways—short of… Read More »Reading for Fun and Other Antidotes to Grief: Picking Up People We Meet on Vacation
College Girl: The Diaries That Planted the Seed in Wanting to Be a Writer
By Betty J. Cotter At fourteen I discovered Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead in our small village library. The collection of… Read More »College Girl: The Diaries That Planted the Seed in Wanting to Be a Writer
Silent Quarantine: Processing the Pandemic Through Literature
By Dian Parker In silence, the world comes in close. Drops of rain sliding off the eaves seem to be inside the bedroom, on my… Read More »Silent Quarantine: Processing the Pandemic Through Literature
The Price Is Loneliness: Reimagining the Fantasy of Writing in Solitude
By Teresa Pham-Carsillo For as long as I could remember, I had a fantasy of being in a position of concentrated solitude, able at last… Read More »The Price Is Loneliness: Reimagining the Fantasy of Writing in Solitude
Reading The Sandman and Learning to Fly
By Mel Lake My first novel is sitting in a folder in cloud storage, waiting for me to summon the courage to open and revise… Read More »Reading The Sandman and Learning to Fly