Deleting Your Photos in a Poppy Field
It took all of the world’s beauty for me step forward, once more.
...moreIt took all of the world’s beauty for me step forward, once more.
...moreYou are free to love others as if it were a pleasure and a privilege, because that’s exactly what it is.
...more“Never just stand there,” the video said.
...moreWhen you finished, several minutes passed before we spoke. You dipped a finger in a pool of candle wax. How could I know this was the only real secret you’d ever kept?
...moreAt the end of the week, which was long with sleepless nights, Miri picked her heart out of the kitchen sink, put it in a paper lunch bag, and took it to the witch.
...moreChasing intimacy can feel cheap—and yet intimacy we pay for can be meaningful. I find traditional therapy as awkward as sex, exposing my emotional self like I expose my body.
...moreFile this one under “they can’t Trump everything; life goes on.” Last week, I got caught up in reflections on poverty in America: mine, yours, and ours. This week, I decided to do something about it and buckle down to design a careful budget. “Ack!,” I said, early one morning. “We’ve got to make a budget […]
...moreSomething about the twangy banjo and the melancholy vocals just made me feel less alone. And I hated being alone.
...moreInstagram: an app powerful enough to blow a million Think Pieces to smithereens in everything it says about female relations.
...moreMax Ritvo passed away on August 23, 2016. Earlier this summer, he spoke with Sarah Blake about his debut collection Four Reincarnations, writing with and about cancer, and how language is a game.
...more“I’m a shock absorber for tragedy,” I say, not really knowing what I mean. “Maybe I should just move to Hawaii. I hear that’s a happy place to live.”
...moreThe point is not to lose yourself to that landscape, and to not become fearful of new landscapes.
...moreAny Nigerian will tell you that a woman without a husband is nothing.
...moreChloe Caldwell talks about her new novella Women, gender nectar, break-up grief, and her impatience with analyzing the fiction/nonfiction divide.
...moreAt The New York Times, author and Rumpus contributor Jami Attenberg writes about the the disorientation and fear that came when, after a break-up, her ex-boyfriend started a site about her. “Creating the blog might have been his grasp at taking control of our story, but it was also his attempt to speak to me […]
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