Barbie’s Blue Leather Case
Twenty hours stretch between Tucson and Mazatlán, Mexico on a highway that never ends. Hour one, 6 AM: inside the 1969 baby blue VW van, metal heats and expands as the […]
Haiku Hike
Haiku Hike He woke me at 4. We shared Ramadan’s first meal. Texas stars watched close.
A Monstrous Boy
James laced a telephone cord around his mother’s neck and pulled until he asphyxiated her.
Prince Garden Apartments’ Swimming Pool
Bubbe wrapped me in a towel, baked in the Arizona sun, draping herself in the same green-ratted robe she’d worn since my first memory.
I’m In A House Held Up By Wooden Beams by Tamara MC
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Dr. Tamara MC is a cult, child marriage, and human trafficking survivor/activist and cheerleads worldwide for girls and women to live free […]
A Monstrous Boy
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! James laced a telephone cord around his mother’s neck and pulled until he asphyxiated her. I knew James since first grade. In […]
My Lithuanian Holocaust Survivor Grandmother—
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! BEFORE: Hot water burbled in samovars. You strolled cobblestone streets, clicking your heels. DURING: You sipped grass soup. Dug the ditch for your […]
Tiny Love Stories: ‘What the Ukrainian Grandmothers Have Written’
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! My sons in Dhaka, Bangladesh, for their Aqiqah, an Islamic tradition. It is usually done when a child is seven days old, but […]