Guest Posts, Mental Health
Frostbite
By August, I can already tell this winter will be far too long. The sky itself is as hollow as the space in my chest.
August 10, 2021Latest Posts
On Being Human.-
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Abuse, Guest Posts, healing
What I Didn’t Know
I didn’t know that I should feel good in my home. I didn’t know that I wasn’t mentally ill. I didn’t know that I wasn’t ugly.
August 9, 2021 -
Guest Posts, Relationships
When Spicing Things Up Cools Everything Down
I let him make a list. I could always use more turmeric and cardamom, I reasoned. “But no cinnamon. I’m the one person on earth who does not like cinnamon.”
August 8, 2021 -
Guest Posts
On The Cusp
Although most people said he looked like Steve, he reminded me of me, personality-wise. Responsible, steady, high-achieving but modest.
August 7, 2021 -
Guest Posts, travel
The Gravity of Human Life
Sometimes when I couldn’t sleep at night, I’d imagine I was plunging into a clear blue lagoon, letting the water relieve me of gravity’s pull, relieve me of the pull of human life.
August 4, 2021 -
Guest Posts, memories, Trauma
My Body Remembers What I Don’t
I look down into my lap then I look at her, smile. “But are you glad you had me?”
August 3, 2021
I don’t know that this is not a question all children ask. -
Guest Posts, pandemic, parenting
A New Kind of Wild
We’ve been in virtual schooling for about two weeks now. The novelty, like my positivity, is wearing off.
August 2, 2021 -
Converse-Station, Guest Posts, writing
The Converse-Station: Sari Fordham Interviews Gina Troisi
How does one launch one’s book during a pandemic? A group of us had the same question and we decided to join forces and ask it together.
August 1, 2021 -
Guest Posts, Marriage, memories
The Summer We All Got Married
We lived then in a university community, where marriage itself was subject to flinty-eyed skepticism—three of us eight to-be-marrieds were divorced, with kids in tow and wedding albums long lost in an attic or cellar.
July 31, 2021 -
Fiction Fridays, Guest Posts
Wildfire
I hate her for making me untimely soup. I hate her for taking my father’s time. And I hate her most, in that moment, for acting like a friend, or maybe a mother.
July 30, 2021 -
Grief, Guest Posts, Self Image
The Grief In My Belly
by Elizabeth O’Nuanain Fatness: Everyone will look at me. Everyone will judge me. Everyone will imagine I spend my days…
July 29, 2021 -
Guest Posts, Home, memories
The House of Two Years
by AnnMarie Roselli Vito and Carmella defied age in such a way that pretending they’d live forever was easy.…
July 28, 2021 -
cancer, Guest Posts, Starting Over
27 Stitches
I had just handled double skin cancer surgery. Surely, I could handle divorce.
July 27, 2021 -
#metoo, Guest Posts
The Columbian
I drove to the apartment, still upset, but shook myself off and went inside. My roommates were in the midst of preparing their dinners and I joined them to do the same. I didn’t have the courage to share what happened in the Colombian’s studio until now.
July 26, 2021
