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I’m confused by your smoking in all of these new pictures. But I guess we were only overgrown children when I knew you. (May 5, 7:45 pm) Saw […]
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In the early 1890s, Frederick Douglass gave a speech about the nature of a self-made man who must weather unfriendly circumstances, a lack of familial support or inheritance, and […]
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Writing is doubt, and so I read in order to write. I look for clues in any given text, and if they are not readily present, a certain defensive boredom […]
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The stages of giving birth for the first time and those of chronic PTSD seem to have the same four elements Persistent fear response or realizing you might […]
View ArticleYOU WERE NEVER HERE
My father was a man by Roman standards when at the age of seventeen he fled the Caucus mountains. A Jew was known to flee Baku and not just freely […]
View ArticleNEEDLED AND NEED
Things have changed. The violin torso in a black nylon slip is out of tune. And so I get an X-ray of my back. The nervous man with a marble […]
View ArticleTHE OSTRICH
Naked body/hidden face The female ostrich stays still and blends with the bush to avoid detection To be different; to move about without fear is to be dead. Her long […]
View ArticleInterview: Vela Magazine Founder Sarah Menkedick on Women Writers and...
Originally posted on Longreads Blog:Cheri Lucas Rowlands | Longreads | Oct. 2 2014 | 10 minutes (2,399 words) Three years ago, Sarah Menkedick launched Vela Magazine in response to the…
View ArticleTHE END OF WINTER
Dear Bernadette, When I imagine something’s wrong with me I immediately attribute this weakness to you and in this way I make you stand in for my father As I’m sure most people who live together...
View ArticleBAKU BABY
My uncles Yasha and Chanukah are sitting around the apartment in their white briefs as usual. Uncle Yasha waits until one of the two balconies gained some shade and takes his smokes and his newspaper...
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