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A Bike Race, Family, and Loss

by Carolyn Wells July 1, 2021March 28, 2023

“We took turns sitting beside my dad and holding his hand. On the TV in the living room, the Tour raced.”

Posted inHighlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

‘There Are Things You See With Your Body’

by Krista Stevens April 15, 2019October 19, 2022

“Stepping away, I feel something evaporate, a quantum of my soul, perhaps, burning up on contact.”

Posted inHighlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

When No One Pulls the Trigger, the Gun Is to Blame

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 14, 2018October 19, 2022

At The Trace, Casey Parks tells the story of a Mississippi father seeking justice after learning a faulty rifle is responsible for the death of his younger son.

Posted inEditor's Pick

His Only Living Boy

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 14, 2018October 19, 2022

Roger Stringer, a father and gun owner in Mississippi, testifies against his older son, Zac, in the shooting that kills his younger son, Justin. Zac goes to prison, but eventually Roger learns that the rifle in the incident — a Remington Model 700 — is at fault.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Uncategorized

Death Rattle: The Body’s Betrayals

by Ellen Wayland-Smith March 21, 2018October 19, 2022

Since my father’s death, I dream about descents and falls. How, without warning, gravity has you in its grip.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story, Uncategorized

Death Rattle: The Body’s Betrayals

by Ellen Wayland-Smith March 21, 2018October 19, 2022

Since my father’s death, I dream about descents and falls. How, without warning, gravity has you in its grip.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Death Rattle: The Body’s Betrayals

by Dana Snitzky March 21, 2018October 19, 2022

In this moving lyric essay on grief, pain, and the body’s frailty, Ellen Wayland-Smith recalls, with heart-wrenching intimacy, how bodies have failed and fallen in her own life, and reflects on various literary and historical reckonings with the finality of death and the inevitability of the fall.

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