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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 inFeatured, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

“I know I believe in the power of lining up little hopes”

by Krista Stevens November 15, 2018October 19, 2022

At Oxford American, Michael Graff remembers his dad, Carl.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes

The Slow Regard of a Difficult Past

by Krista Stevens August 2, 2018October 19, 2022

“In my family, love was the slow accumulation of moments in which I was not subjected to great harm.”

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Quotes

Why the Most Beautiful Poems Defy Understanding

by Krista Stevens August 14, 2017October 19, 2022

“In a poem, we feel what is there, but also what is not.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

What My Father’s Death Taught Me about Poetry

by Krista Stevens August 11, 2017October 19, 2022

Matthew Zapruder examines his relationship with poetry and with his father. Despite being two men with great facility for precise language, they were unable to use it to bridge the distance between them. In likening poems to people, Zapruder posits that the most beautiful thing about the poems most important to him is that their […]

Posted inNonfiction, Story

Forever Yesterday: Peering Inside My Mom’s Fading Mind

by Kevin Sampsell August 11, 2017October 19, 2022

Kevin Sampsell bears witness to the ways in which Alzheimer’s has been pulling his mother back in time, and taking over her life.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Nonfiction

Forever Yesterday: Peering Inside My Mom’s Fading Mind

by Kevin Sampsell August 11, 2017October 19, 2022

Kevin Sampsell bears witness to the ways in which Alzheimer’s has been pulling his mother back in time, and taking over her life.

Posted inBooks, Member Pick, Nonfiction, Story

This Is Living

by Longreads December 3, 2014October 19, 2022

How burdens and values pass from fathers to sons, and the search for that one true thing.

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