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Reminiscing 2018;

August 23, 2021August 23, 2021 Elisabeth Horan

I walked straight off some pier the end of the roof — gutter baby it ended at the keyword *failure   our faces kissing as if hogs to slaughter It ended at midnight I turned           to stone   the end of your cock – ringed-necked pheasant I always have Read more

Emotional Health, Featured, PoetryElisabeth Horan, mental health, poetry2 Comments

My Secret Box

August 21, 2021August 21, 2021 Adriana Morgan

We all have a secret box hidden somewhere. Under the bed, inside a tree hole, or between two thoughts. Some hide it so high, so they can’t reach it anymore. Children like to stash it behind the rainbow, and then forget about it. Come see my secret box. I hid Read more

Emotional Health, Featured, Poetry, Women's Issues + AwarenessAdriana Morgan, mental health, poetryLeave a comment

KITCHEN JUSTICE

August 18, 2021August 18, 2021 Katherine West

Mom was in the kitchen. Dad had just driven up. “Girls set the table,” she called up to us. “C’mon,” I said, tugging at my older sister’s sleeve. “It doesn’t take two,” she answered, not looking up from her book. She was reading Dune, again. “C’mon, please, you know what Read more

Emotional Health, Featured, Women's Issues + Awarenesschildhood sex abuse, family, Incest, Katherine WestLeave a comment

Lies

August 13, 2021August 13, 2021 Myrna CG Mibus

Most people don’t notice that I’m constantly ready to run. That my shoulders are tense. My eyes watching for danger. My breath shallow. My brain working on overdrive. What do I do next? Am I saying the wrong thing? Are people looking at me? Do I look okay? Does everyone Read more

Emotional Health, Featured, Women's Issues + Awarenessbeauty, body image, emotional health, mental health, Myrna CG Mibus, women5 Comments

Strangers at Birth

August 12, 2021August 12, 2021 Cate Carlyle

My mother wasn’t much of one. If you put aside the fact that she abandoned me, in the winter, less than twenty-four hours after I entered the world, then the note she left propped on my thin yellow cotton blanket said it all: Take her. I can’t do this. I Read more

Emotional Health, Featured, Friends + Familyadoption, Cate Carlyle, emotional health, family, mental health, motherhood, orphan1 Comment

Loupe

August 11, 2021August 11, 2021 Jane Ehrenfeld

Sometimes I say out loud to no one, “I am so tired.” Sometimes I stop in the supermarket aisle, and press my hand hard to my heart, to blunt the ache. My mother often sighed, out of nowhere, long and loud. I don’t think she meant to. I know the Read more

Emotional Health, Featured, Friends + Family, Women's Issues + Awarenessfamily, Jane Ehrenfeld, motherhood1 Comment

Dating a Narcissist Eleven Years Later

August 9, 2021August 9, 2021 Anon Feminine Collective

It was our 11th anniversary on the New Year of 2021. Our daughter woke up early but wanted to go and play so it was just us two in bed on a late Friday morning. I was on my phone when he fully woke up and he snuggled his back Read more

Dating + Relationships, Emotional Health, Women's Issues + Awarenessabuse, narcissistic, toxic love, toxic relationshipsLeave a comment

The Girl with Her Heart in a Box

August 6, 2021August 6, 2021 Emily Algar

There once was a girl who kept her heart in a box. She met a man and wanted to show him her heart. She opened the box, and took out her heart, piece by piece, laying it on the floor for him to see. You see, another man had once Read more

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