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Baby with hospital band around ankle

Prayer

Lisa worried her way through the second round of in vitro and the resulting pregnancy with Stella and Jackson. Our first in vitro…

BMW

Slowing Down

Dr. Mica Monroe crossed the kitchen with four clicks of her six inch heels and opened the refrigerator door. Twenty one neatly stacked…

eucalyptus

The Crash

“My father liked to work with his hands So much so that it created calluses on his palms and he survived solely on manual labor…”

School

The Hard Way, Kid

DEAR OLD WEST TECH, WE’LL ALWAYS LOVE YOU. It’s the opening line of my high school…

pink flowers

Against Ruins, in Praise of Pink

“Yes, yes. Over there is fine. Just under the middle window. Thank you so much,” Braynah said, directing the two workmen. Both men, in burly middle age…

mango

Maybe a Mango, Recovery, Yearly Physical

Peach halves wobble in pineapple jello on the tray across her hospital bed, a kitchen accustomed to the elderly; still, Green Pines…

Cottage in the woods

Results of the 2019 Dreamers Writing Contest

Congratulations to the winners of the Dreamers Writing Contest: Stories of Migration, Sense of Place and Home. In the United States, Dreamers is a term …

Drowning Manifesto

Do not tempt the sharks. Do not move your limbs horizontally or vertically. Do not hold on to pictures or passports or holy books…