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“Yet I still doggy paddle in impostor syndrome. For I am not a biologist or cetologist, nor an oceanographer. I am just a woman with a pen, a profound love for water, and an eye for noticing patterns in the currents, eddies, and swirls of living.” Sometimes words aren’t enough. Or, at least, existing words […]
“The carefree manner in which the guests of the wedding interacted with one another that night stamps this story in a specific time a seeming eternity ago, before social distancing and quarantine and a great big pause on America’s $60-billion-plus-a-year wedding industrial complex.”
For the tenth year in a row, we’re kicking off the reading year with a set of short stories hand-picked by longtime contributor Pravesh Bhardwaj.
Finding beauty, human connection, and one’s heritage in the resonant sounds of the dulcimer.
Misinformation’s tragic toll on one California family.
A family curse, a grandfather, a pet, a friend—and one untranslatable word to encompass them all.
Each story we chose as our number five piece of the week in 2023, all in one place.
On self-love and self-acceptance while aging in a disabled body.
Sometimes, marriage is about learning how to braid the bitter with the sweet.
