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Posted inEditor's Pick

Of Tacos y Heartbreak

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 10, 2022November 11, 2022

“The tacos I eat here in the U.S. are not the tacos my family eats in Mexico. They come close but there’s something missing. Maybe it’s the salt.”

Posted inNonfiction

Trading Spaces

by Cheryl Jarvis June 9, 2020November 25, 2022

Ditching the Midwest for Southern California on the heels of a crushing divorce, the last thing Cheryl Jarvis wants is her 26-year old son for a roomie.

Posted inNonfiction

Self Portrait With iPhone

by Pam Mandel May 13, 2020December 9, 2022

Newly single in her mid-50s, Pam Mandel swipes through dozens of selfies, including her own.

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

Fear of Suffering Alone

by Anne Liu Kellor May 4, 2020December 9, 2022

After separating from her husband and entering quarantine, Anne Liu Kellor faces her ongoing desire for a partner and the necessity of loving herself.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

The Bigamist’s Daughter

by Robin Antalek April 22, 2020December 9, 2022

Robin Antalek considers the legacy of the man who abandoned her for another family and never looked back.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Since I Became Symptomatic

by Sari Botton March 26, 2020October 19, 2022

A month after filing for divorce, single mom Leslie Jamison contracted COVID-19. She wrote this meditation on single parenthood, loneliness, longing, and frustration while sheltering in place — and sweating out the virus — with her 2-year-old daughter.

Posted inFeature

Whatever Happened to ______ ?

by Longreads January 15, 2020October 18, 2022

Envy over her success led her husband, also a writer, to become violent. She fights every day for her safety — and to avoid being relegated to obscurity like so many writers who are mothers.

Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story

Surviving the Shattering of My Mind and My Marriage

by Longreads October 16, 2019January 20, 2023

Andrea J. Buchanan contemplates the way illness and pain can freeze a sufferer in time, as if encased in glass.

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

Everything is Fine

by Sara Fredman March 14, 2019October 19, 2022

Sara Fredman thinks about the voices in her life as she raises young children and reckons with her fading father.

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