June 12th, 2012 - Joe Neary
A resounding answer to a question I did not realize I had posed: you are not an object, but a possibility.
June 11th, 2012 - Sara Lippmann
The year finds me in a string of years on the verge of giving up. Ten years out of grad school with little to show for myself.
May 30th, 2012 - Sage Ravenwood
I didn’t feel worthy. There’s only so many ways you can say broken, suicidal, and stuck in an endless loop of therapy.
May 26th, 2012 - Rahma O. Jimoh
The May weather had just begun to spread its palms on our cheeks. The day was bright, save for the dark clouds gathering in the sky.
May 26th, 2012 - Jeffrey Feingold
Ahead of me—far ahead—I saw my salvation: a blinking white neon light, its flashing rays stabbing into the darkness. M-O-T-E-L … M-O-T-E-L.
May 22nd, 2012 - Melissa Ridley Elmes
I want to cry but I’m too tired to accomplish actual tears.
May 19th, 2012 - Ellen Clayton
It’s Saturday morning and I wake up late, in the flat above the pub I work two nights a week in.
May 12th, 2012 - Chital Mehta
It’s a hot summer day in Chennai. I feel the sweat soaking my salwar.
May 5th, 2012 - Tisha Scott
I’m thirty-five weeks pregnant with my third child. Another boy. No girls for me. And maybe that’s okay.
May 5th, 2012 - Lisa Allen
May 5, 2012 is a word problem.
I’ve been divorced 1,276 days (or 3 years, 5 months, and 29 days).