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Extraction

by Seyward Darby January 26, 2023January 26, 2023

“When your great-grandparents grew up in Stalin’s terror-famine, your grandparents in the Holocaust, and your parents in a straddle between totalitarianism and democracy, you grew up confused about pain.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Fighting the Tree

by Peter Rubin January 4, 2023January 4, 2023

“Maybe I wasn’t the son Dad wanted. Maybe, if he could have, he would have picked another kid, a son he could enjoy parenting.”

Rear view of a boy lying on the floor who is drawing a picture of his two moms
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List, Story

Families Like Ours: A Reading List for the Children of Queer Parents

by Melissa Hart June 28, 2022October 19, 2022

Some of us got to stay with our moms or dads. Others did not.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Keep This to Yourself

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 7, 2021October 19, 2022

“I am carried, cared for, not yet touched by our culture’s casting of my body as other, as divergent. It is less like memory and more like myth.”

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

B is for Bastard

by Brian Gresko November 4, 2019January 13, 2023

As a boy, after the trauma of learning he is not his father’s biological son, Brian Gresko finds his sense of himself is shattered.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

First Contact

by Longreads June 27, 2019October 19, 2022

Sarah Watts details how science fiction shaped her family, her religion, and her own self-image.

Posted inFeature, Featured, Nonfiction, Quotes

Taking Cents, Making Sense of a Broken Family

by Katie Kosma May 1, 2019October 19, 2022

Sari Botton turns to petty – incredibly petty – theft after her family life hits the fan.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story

Does the Woman in the Painting Have a Secret?

by Longreads April 24, 2019October 19, 2022

In the wake of her mother’s passing, Dylan Landis wrestles with unanswered questions about love and art, and imagines different possibilities of what could have been.

Posted inBooks, Editor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, First Chapters, Nonfiction

Even the Dogs

by Longreads March 4, 2019October 19, 2022

In an excerpt from her memoir, T Kira Madden recalls a harrowing adventure with her parents.

Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Featured, First Chapters, Nonfiction, Story

Even the Dogs

by Longreads March 4, 2019October 19, 2022

In an excerpt from her memoir, T Kira Madden recalls a harrowing adventure with her parents.

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