I think about aliens. A lot. Basically, “Big wide universe, where are the aliens at?” In brief (and adorable) cartoon form: Galacduck scares the hell out of me now. Oh shit, Galacduck is right behind me, isn’t it??? But actually, there’s something that terrifies me…
By Ava Thompson She’s been waitingLong past her expiration.She sits on the doorstep of successAnd waits for it to let her in. She’s outgrown the quiet worldOf compromise.Her voice is itching to run free.Her feet follow after. Her wanderlust will no longer…
By Catherine Lanser After three months at the inpatient rehabilitation facility, it was time for my dad to move again. Only five months after his brain hemorrhage and already it was hard to count how many stops he had made on his…
I helped my daughter get ready for the new school year last night. While she was finishing her bedtime routine, I laid out her clothes and was struck by the fact that she’s entering fourth grade already – fourth grade. At risk…
By C. Streetlights My mother had an avocado green Toyota Corolla when I was a small girl. The seats were a rusty orange and stuck to your bare legs in the hot summer sun, the plasticky vinyl coating your skin with what…
Southern Daughters I am from the south where the trees are dry and the rivers are waterless. Our sky is dark and its sun is foggy. I am from that south where everything is colorless. Our southern fields have daughters but our…
By Debbie Jinks On Friday 31st March 2017, we celebrated my mum and dad’s 50th Wedding Anniversary. They are now in their 70’s and it made me think back to my life as an Army child. We were on the move a…
By Elaine Mansfield I walked the trails on my land, stunned by the contrast between fields of blooming purple lupines and my numb despair. My husband Vic had died the week before. We knew death was coming, but how can anyone imagine…
Emily Dickinson once famously remarked that if she felt as though the top of her head were taken off, she knew she was reading poetry. And who among us did not read “It is a truth universally acknowledged, …” and feel our heads explode?…
By C. Streetlights *(CW-Content Warning) Rape, Sexual Assault, Violent Crimes * When someone is victim of a violent crime like rape and sexual assault, they know exactly the date their lives changed. There is a definitive before and after. If you were…
