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Marcia Aldrich

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story

Phone Call in The Age of Coronavirus

by Max May 12, 2020December 9, 2022

Marcia Aldrich on why cell phones, so thin and light and little, don’t seem fitting for momentous calls, for life and death communications, or for last words.

Posted inNonfiction

Hello, Forgetfulness; Hello, Mother

by Max October 2, 2019January 20, 2023

Peering into the mirror of her mother, Marcia Aldrich wonders whether she too is sentenced to dementia.

Posted inStory, Unapologetic Women

These Rooms Alone

by Jill Talbot June 25, 2019October 19, 2022

Two women, 20 years apart, on the choice they both made.

Posted inStory, Unapologetic Women

Someone Called Mother

by Max March 21, 2019October 19, 2022

Their mothers were secrets, right up until their deaths.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story

Trouble

by Jill Talbot September 27, 2018October 19, 2022

Two women share a history of daring, of lost direction, of dark bedrooms, and an enforced silence they finally break.

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