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).
April 18th, 2012 - Heather Heckman-McKenna
Echoes I searched distantly familiar rooms in the dark. Reaching blindly, but pulling and grasping nonetheless. Two days before what...
March 31st, 2012 - Kirsten Levy
It’s been ten years since we last spoke. Ten years since Mom died, the last of our parents and grandparents.
March 17th, 2012 - Matthew Fogarty
A catalog (incomplete) of recent tattoos
March 10th, 2012 - Michelle Ross
My son is two years old today. I pick up Elmo balloons from the party store. I bake cupcakes and poke in toothpicks topped with Elmo’s face.
March 10th, 2012 - Stephanie LaRose
Ten years ago today: I was forty-four when my husband Bill left me for a twenty-nine-year-old. Our only child Ben was eleven.