Authentic, Real, and Good
The truth is I got hired for my looks and promoted for my flexible standards of truth and that is…
Waving Tassels
Plan to Free The dog ate the turkey. Then killed all the village swans, piled the white corpses at the…
One Long Sting
From the time I learn how to bleed I keep a scab in the fleshy inner curve of my ear.…
the sea was there
I don’t know where Mom learned to drive. I don’t know where she learned to hold the wheel firm or…
Sowing
A seed is an escape pod. A plant egg detaches from its mother from the start, Jody says as she…
Nanay Is Mother
Behind the books on her shelves she finds the artifacts of their girlhood, all of them fuzzed with dust: pocket-sized…
Nurturing
Protection Erik is raising three chicks in his backyard. Erik is always telling us how he’ll have fresh eggs once…
And Even Still the Rivers
1 Remember when the river ran just beyond our door, when rains replenished this ribbon unfurled blue and raspberries ripened…
Receivers
Thursday nights, half the country gathered in their living rooms to watch Chad Dylan Scott shake blonde hair out of…
The Big Dipper
The pool was four feet deep, and we bought it at Target half off. You could float on your back…
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