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Bag of Blue

January 29, 2017September 12, 2018 Sharon Mack

There is a blue plastic WalMart bag caught in a branch of the maple tree in my daughter’s front yard. It has been there since April, four seasons ago. It’s amazingly high – far beyond the nest of squirrels and the honeycomb of holes the woodpecker has drilled. Way above Read more

Featured, Friends + Familydivorce, grandchildren, marriage, parenting, Sharon MackLeave a comment

Day 90: The Atomic Weight of Guilt

January 13, 2017September 16, 2018 Amye Archer

As a child, you lay on your father’s belly while the New York Yankees run bases on a small black and white television in your old apartment. Your small frame, so thin your mother has to “take in” every pair of pants you own, rises and falls with his breath. Read more

Emotional Health, FeaturedAmye Archer, divorce, emotional health, family, guilt, parenting1 Comment

Her Name Was JOY

December 19, 2016September 13, 2018 Renee DeMont

As she stepped inside my home tonight, I could see she wasn’t in a hurry. Seemed to want to linger a bit. Came to pick up a beautiful angel snow globe I sold her on a local mom to mom sales site. For the last month, I have been committed Read more

Friends + Family, Women's Issues + AwarenessChristmas, divorce, friendship, holiday, kindness matters, poverty, Renee Demont, women6 Comments

Step Nine

December 11, 2016December 7, 2016 Robin Vigfusson

How shrewd of him to corner her at work since there was no door to slam in his face; she shared a space with four other women, but how could he have known that? Remarkably, he was obese. His ferrety leanness as a young man had seemed metabolic, but now Read more

Dating + Relationships, Featured, Short Fictionaa, alcoholism, divorce, relationships, Robin Vigfusson, short story, sobriety4 Comments

Day 42: Various Positions

November 30, 2016September 14, 2018 Amye Archer

For Leonard I’ve seen this room, and I’ve walked this floor. You know, I used to live alone before I knew you. The ceilings in my apartment in Wilkes-Barre are at least twenty feet high. I am not yet twenty-seven and am already divorced. When I come home drunk, I Read more

Dating + Relationships, Featuredaging, Amye Archer, divorce, love, marriage, parenting3 Comments

love. (lost?)

November 30, 2016August 19, 2021 Wendy C Garfinkle

i remember you. when first we met i, barely more than a child you, already touched by war. two different worlds converging. you overcame my shyness with your admiration for my writing skills. we talked and exchanged numbers. though we lived in the same town, rarely met face-to-face hours would Read more

Dating + Relationships, Featured, Poetrybreak up, dating, divorce, poetry, romance, Wendy C. Garfinkle2 Comments

For Medicinal Purposes Only

November 10, 2016September 15, 2018 Julie Anderson

You are so crazy I can’t take it anymore I will not have this kind of drama in my life You are strange and unpredictable Am I CRAZY? What makes you think that? Is it because I grind my teeth every night, chasing demons in my dreams? Is it because Read more

Poetry, Pursuit of Perfection with Julie Andersonbreak up, divorce, Julie Anderson, mental illness, poetry, relationships11 Comments

Don’t Want Your Good Ol’ Days

November 9, 2016October 6, 2018 H.M. Jones

Testosterone tainted thrusts
of masculine need,
cumming sloppily all over
my social feed,

Featured, Poetrydivorce, dreams, family, H.M. Jones, male domination, motherhood, poetry, sexual objectification, women in the workplace, women's rights2 Comments

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