A personal essay in which Michael Gonzales reflects on the deaths of a dear friend, and a bookworm he idolized: David Bowie.
loss
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Jack, Jacqueline — Dad
A personal essay in which Yvonne Conza wrestles with the complexities of estrangement from her dying — complicated — dad.
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Who Really Gets to Make the Rules?
“But who gets to impose those rules and who becomes subject to them can be decisions tainted with sexism and racism and transphobia and homophobia. “
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The Strongest Woman in the Room
A personal essay in which a daughter recounts her family’s worst day, through her mother’s eyes.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
The Strongest Woman in the Room
A daughter recounts her family’s worst day, through her mother’s eyes.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
The Strongest Woman in the Room
A daughter recounts her family’s worst day, through her mother’s eyes.
Posted inEditor's Pick
A Place to Stay, Untouched by Death
In this personal essay, after her mother’s passing, Jane Ratcliffe considers the role everyday objects play in a good death.
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A Birth Plan for Dying
In this personal essay, Hanna Neuschwander grapples with ending a wanted pregnancy, and finds that “right” or “wrong” fail to describe the moral reckoning.
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Oh! Small-bany! Part 2
The second chapter in Novelist Elisa Albert’s Albany “quartet.” Notes from an awful winter.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Giving Up the Ghost
After his death, Emily Urquhart ‘sees’ her brother with regularity. Nearly 20 years later, stories and science help to explain why.