

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).


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