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Feed by Ksenia Panova
I licked buttercream frosting off my fingers and didn’t have a panic attack. My taut heart raged and threatened to turn my body to froth, but I quickly melted the icing with my tongue against the roof...
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Your Day to Survive by Aurora D. Bonner
Howling brought me out of the darkness of a dream into an indigo sky just touched by dawn. The moment felt surreal, as if it their voices were not really there, only in my mind. For a second, I lie...
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Tough Titties by Audrey Jennifer Smith
You have a picture of your mother nursing you, days after you were born—her face placid, your eyes pressed closed with hunger. Years later, she tells you that in high school the others called her...
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The Harvest of Bodies by Reema Zaman
New York, 2013 I am 29. Cheerful light pours in through the panoramic windows overlooking Columbus Circle at Central Park. An early spring breeze flirts with the trees as Asian and European tourists...
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Leavings by Connor Ferguson
I harbor a particular fondness for gradual, physical change. I have a brown leather case for my iPhone, and I relish the ghostly patterns slowly developing on it from the oils in my hand. The pen I...
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The Color Purple by Kelley Lusk
Most Memorable: Jan/Feb 2018 I remember the glass shattering. Her fist breaching the window, instead of my face—there was red. Then blue. Or maybe it was blue, then red. A reddish blue, bluish...
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Construction with Benefits by Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons
Last summer two unexpected events happened that changed how I weigh my chance at love. First, I discovered that I didn’t fit into the chairs at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. I’ve gone to the...
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Writing Life: Falling in Love with Monsters: On Memoir and Unconditional Love...
Last summer, when the film adaptation of Jeannette Walls’ The Glass Castle hit theaters, I took my mom to go see it. I found this family saga stunning on many levels. The characters were revealed in...
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REVIEW: A Woman Is A Woman Until She Is A Mother by Anna Prushinskaya
Reviewed by Ashley SupinskiAnna Prushinskaya’s collection of short essays in A Woman Is A Woman Until She Is A Mother (MG Press, 2017) examines the interconnection of womanhood and motherhood. These...
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Review: Theology of My Life by John Frame
Reviewed by Tony KapolkaFive-decade seminary professor John Frame’s Theology of My Life (Cascade Books, 2017) is a self-proclaimed theological and apologetic memoir. It is the latest in a large stack...
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