- March 22, 2021
The summer I became the last girl in my father’s house, I read Gilead for the first time. I was between my junior and senior years of college, and now that both of my older sisters were married, I
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- March 20, 2021
I was bringing a friend; that was all I said. His name is Raleigh. Like North Carolina. He plays guitar left-handed like Hendrix or McCartney. Born and raised in Chicagoland. Glasses cover his powder-blue eyes that match the walls
- March 9, 2021
On the painting by Vincent van Gogh The trees are aflame.The stars are ablaze.The moon swirls as it dances through the night.The Milky Way curlsin light waves breaking on the shores of the far horizon.The steeple, the people in their homesalight
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- May 10, 2021
We were told to take anything we wantedfrom the chattel left behind by a disappearedfamily who had rented my aunt’s farmhouse. They left in a hurry, unable to pay the month’s due,unwilling to beg my hard-nosed aunt for more
- May 10, 2021
The autumn night my sister was releasedfrom Bellevue, dressed in a rough shroudof brown burlap,my mother told me to take her upstairsand bathe her.I filled the old tub with hot water,gathered a bar of Ivory soap andthe green bottle
- June 3, 2021
I. My shoes. I didn’t realize how far my Mary Janes had taken me until they started to split at their soles. The once glossy-black toe box turned lusterless, the buckle bent upwards, and my frilly white socks that
- June 3, 2021
As a sixteen-year-old, first-generation Indian boy, I have been using skin whitening products for ten years. And until a year ago, I did not know that it wasn’t okay. I write this essay under a pseudonym because I am
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