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The History Before Us

By Jessica Jacobs January 21, 2019

How can we be sure the atrocities of the past will stay in the past?

ConflictHistory

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Your Next Miscarriage

By Jonathan Crowl January 8, 2019

This was the plan before the good news became bad news.

Family & Relationships

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Our Last Days in Country

By Curtis J. Graham November 29, 2018

A young Marine on being eighteen and deployed a few miles from the D.M.Z., meeting girls and waiting for ghosts.

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Late-Life Love

By Susan Gubar October 23, 2018

Old lovers know that love does not conquer all, that our intimacy cannot establish a safe haven somewhere, someplace, for us.

Bodies & NatureFamily & Relationships

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On the Edge of Seventeen

By Sarah Kasbeer October 19, 2018

A teenage boy, a violent incident, and twenty years of reckoning.

Family & RelationshipsJustice

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Fragments From a War-Torn Childhood

By Amir Ahmadi Arian September 12, 2018

The Iran-Iraq war that made me who I am ended thirty years ago. Keeping quiet will not make it go away. I don’t believe in talking through it, either. Between silence and speech lies the act of writing. This is where I seek my remedy.

ConflictMENA

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When Naming Isn’t Enough

By Rebecca Hazelwood August 31, 2018

No matter how inexperienced I was, I didn't deserve what he did.

Family & RelationshipsSex

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All Words Fly

By Sara Nović August 21, 2018

On finding the language to mourn.

Family & RelationshipsHealthHistory

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Caravan for the Disappeared

Story by Maya Averbuch | Photos by Consuelo Pagaza May 24, 2018

A Salvadoran woman looks for a sister who went missing while trying to make it to America.

ConflictFamily & Relationships

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Animals Died at Our House, and Other Things that Burn or Wear Away

By Autumn Watts May 7, 2018

There was the time I found an entire horse or cow skeleton laid neatly on top of the shed roof. When I asked my brothers what it was doing there, they looked at me patiently and said, We found it in the desert.

Deserts AmericasBodies & NatureFamily & Relationships

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Hello Blood: The Dance of Miscarriage

By Kimi Eisele May 7, 2018

The baby stayed in the desert. I myself stayed in darkness for a long time.

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