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Essays

Maxine ~ Melanie Hoffert

Posted on November 6, 2019

Because nobody spoke of my grandmother, Maxine, when I was a child, I pieced together the day of her death from fragments I had heard, as if I had been there—a ...

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The Marksburg Photo ~ Robert Root

Posted on November 6, 2019

  I call it the Marksburg photo, even though Marksburg, the castle on the mountain behind the two of us, is almost unnoticeable. I once mounted a section o...

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She’s Still Young, I Am Old Enough ~ Matthew Gavin Frank

Posted on November 6, 2019

The lights in here are too bright, and they too brightly brighten the blue dish detergent, the deodorant that apparently makes one smell like a meadow in spring...

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Ordinary Time ~ Sarah M. Wells

Posted on November 6, 2019

The marketing agency I work at is meeting with a local business owner in this small but increasingly optimistic Rust Belt town. We talk about packaging. They ma...

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Marveling at the Marrow ~ Betsy Johnson

Posted on November 6, 2019

   When my daughter and I pilgrimage together, we see dead things. Not intentionally, mind you. We are not visiting reliquary, morgue, or cemetery but...

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Allan Savory: Zimbabwe ~ Gretel Ehrlich

Posted on November 6, 2019

The moon shone on stacked thatching grass and a hyena cried. It was May and I’d returned to Dibangombe. Allan greeted me with his usual laughter and sardonic qu...

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12-Step Plan For Becoming The Mother of An Addict ~ Kirsten Wasson

Posted on November 6, 2019

One: Meet guilt, your new best friend. Guilt will be there for you during difficult times: at 2am, for instance, when you don’t know where your twenty-four-year...

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How Substandard Closet Design Inflamed My Chronic Dread ~ Cris Mazza

Posted on November 6, 2019

People lose things when they move. Losing things is my habitual worry and a worrisome habit. This, I think, is one reason for science’s relentless struggle to c...

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A Death in the Family ~ Laurie Hertzel

Posted on November 6, 2019

My mother was leaving to run some errands and she invited me to go along. My father, Guv, was tying his shoes, about to leave for a tennis match, and I was torn...

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Other Minds ~ Daniel Menaker

Posted on November 6, 2019

Maxwell can do the following tricks, at spoken and/or manual commands, each trick rewarded by a small treat: Sit.* Shake hands, right. Shake hands, left. Lie do...

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