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mama asks, haven’t you been lucky to know gracious men
"He stopped when I asked him to stop & in the morning he apologized & meant it so, really, who could blame him."Issue 78
Silver Spaceships
Driven only by the knife of teenage hunger and the slanted courage to make it happen, you take the dareIssue 78
Finding Your Public Voice
Pivotal moments in our lives lead to stories that can change the worldIssue 78
Tiny Truths 78
Micro-essays about interior monologues, conversations overheard, and the voices of those no longer with usIssue 78
Close Read: Margo Jefferson
Pulitzer Prize–winning critic and memoirist Margo Jefferson has questions: What is the story of her life, and how is she to write it?Issue 78
Close Read: Steve Coughlin
Prose poet Steve Coughlin illuminates the everydayIssue 78
Close Read: Jaquira Díaz
Award-winning memoirist Jaquira Díaz uses the first-person plural to show us what it means to belong to a place.Issue 78
Close Read: R. Eric Thomas
Screenwriter R. Eric Thomas disarms readers with smart cultural touchstones.Issue 78
The Oddity
Let’s say I was twelve, though thirteen or ten is just as likely. Our class waded across a dark shed in Wisconsin, past spotlit jars and a hand-carved sign: Nature’s Oddities.Sisters Making Dinner
This party’s over, my sister says her patient said. Then my sister lifts her chin and says, Where is the fresh mozzarella? This was right before she died. The patient, not my sister.