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The heart.

February 2021

  • Elizabeth Fortescue

    Prometheus Unbound

    The forces that keep us going

    Issue 66

  • Nicola Waldron

    Rising Action, Falling Action

    The eroticism of essaying

    Issue 71

  • Jennifer Niesslein

    The Joy of Writing

    Using positive psychology to identify the pleasures of putting words on the page

    Issue 62

  • Brenda Miller

    Regeneration

    How to regenerate a human heart

    Issue 47 / True Stories, Well Told

  • Sonja Livingston

    Mad Love: The Ballad of Fred & Allie

    The sin was not so much the taking of the throat as the wanting of it in the first place. And what a fine throat it was, the way it captured those who saw it: men loitering at the Customs House; boys down by the river, who stretched their own necks to catch a glimpse of its fine whiteness; eventually the entire nation.

    Issue 48 / Southern Sin

  • Jerald Walker

    The Heart

    Two troubled souls who—despite their love—simply would not, and maybe could not, be soothed

    Issue 39 / True Stories, Well Told

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