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Frances Ogamba Headshot

Here’s to the Breed of Flying Hens!

December 4, 2022/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2023 / Frances Ogamba

When my toddler son says the word “mum,” it is not me he looks at. While his voice enunciates the first letter with a clipped edge, he points instead at a trumpet-shaped hibiscus we always pluck from the flower tree tipping across the fence delineating his older brother’s school. It feels magnificent that he says this word, but it is also shocking that he cannot fit me into it.

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Siobhan Ring

Words

December 3, 2022/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2023 / Siobhan Ring

You might think words live in your mouth. But you would be wrong. Your lips, your tongue, your cheeks, your teeth are just a vessel language moves through. The headwaters of language rest deep inside your brain where image, sound, and memory curl into meaning, flow into words, and cascade into sentences. It can dry up or slow to a trickle.

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Maxwell Suzuki, author's headshot

NATIONAL GUN OWNERS SURVEY or WHAT IT MEANS TO KNOW THE BODY ISN’T A TARGET

November 25, 2022/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2023 / Maxwell Suzuki

1. Do you agree that the Second Amendment guarantees your individual right to own a firearm?
Yes, but—

2. Do you support the confirmation of pro-Second Amendment judges to the U.S. Supreme Court and lower federal courts?
No, the second amendment didn’t account for three round bursts.

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Quinn Forlini

This Year as a Compilation of Short Films I Can’t Decipher

June 3, 2022/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2022 / Quinn Forlini

My friend sends a video of her newborn opening and closing her mouth, testing the length of her tongue in air and then resting it back inside its wet, warm spot. Her spit and lips make soft sounds, the closest she could get to language. I want to come closer to how she must feel. It’s snowing.

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The Girl with the Turquoise Eye-Shadow

June 3, 2022/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2022 / Nimisha Kantharia

It was mid-December in Mumbai, a city with just one season, hot and humid. Yet the worn cotton curtains of the consulting room I sat in billowed with an afternoon breeze that sent icy fingers down my neck and up my spine, and a hollow cough rattled my chest. The Out-Patient Department (OPD) was crowded, and patients pressed in on me from all sides even as I feverishly attended to them.

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Heir of the Cuckoo

June 2, 2022/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2022 / Shannon Tsonis

He’s poised with a notepad and pen on top of legs crossed tight like braids. He repeats the question, “When did you find out your father was the main suspect?”
The therapist sits in front of his motivational posters, the ones that frustrate me with their cornball optimism.

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Rookie Cam, Author Headshot

The Natural Order of Things

December 3, 2021/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2022 / Diane Forman

I am drawn to a series of black and white photos in a recent New Yorker magazine. The article reviews a book of 1200 images through which the author, Nancy Floyd, chronicles herself aging over a forty year period. Flabbergasted, I stare at the ease with which she leans against doorways or fence posts, without any of the vanity or careful posing that has been typical of most of my lifelong behavior when being photographed. . .

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JoeAnn Hard, Author Headshot

The Thing Speaks For Itself

December 2, 2021/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2022 / JoeAnn Hart

Look at this, a hand towel, hot from the dryer. A souvenir from a friend’s trip to Italy not so long ago. I bury my face in its warmth, unable to let go until the linen is cold. It clearly speaks for itself, but when I point that out, no one listens so I must make the case myself. . .

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Hail Mary Pass

November 27, 2021/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2022 / Kristin Marie

About a year after Mom died, when I was a freshman in high school, I had a weekend job as a cashier at a car wash. Customers pulled their Range Rovers and Subarus up to my window and ordered the type of wash they wanted from a menu, kind of like McDonald’s, except this historical town’s zoning laws prohibited most chain restaurants and franchises. . .

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A Message to My Mother in Morse Code

May 13, 2021/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2021 / Amanda Crum

You asked me how it felt, my belly swollen with cramps and emptiness. Those were the cold-spark days when winter kept us huddled in bed. You were worried about how much pain I was in, but I had no answer to give that didn’t end in blood, so I turned my head due west and pondered the slice of sky framed in the window [. . .]

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Stitches

May 10, 2021/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2021 / Lizzie Roberts

When I checked the clock again it was 5:16 a.m. I would get up in less than an hour. And I would have to stay alive until O, our five-year-old, was eighteen. When you don’t want to live another day, thirteen years is an impossible amount of time to fathom. In the half-light, simple math and insomniac logic can lead to infinity. [. . .]

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Your Rapist has Famous Parents

May 1, 2021/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2021 / Danielle Shorr

You are with your parents when you first meet him. You are on vacation, a spring break trip to a big city you are going to live near next year. You are seventeen, and certainly, you look it, if not younger [. . .]

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Hieroglyphics

December 5, 2020/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2021 / Jordan Guevara

Almost every night now, I cauterize my jaws shut. Our melancholy, this weight—as Ginsberg once put it, this love—grinding and pressurizing my teeth into dust.[…]

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The Beautiful Mundane

December 5, 2020/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2021 / Anne Pinkerton

Each time a new friend was in treatment, I held my breath waiting for results of follow-up scans, my entire body exhaling when results were positive. As in negative. As in clear.[…]

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Sue Hann

Master of Light

June 9, 2020/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2020 / Sue Hann

You get to re-live childhood again if you have children, a kind of a do-over, the opportunity to
create the kind of childhood you had and loved, or, even more seductive, the chance to create
the childhood you never had and missed your whole life.[…]

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Tom Wade

An Ancestor’s Legacy

June 7, 2020/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2020 / Tom Wade

Well, it looks as though you have three choices. You can go to him as he orders; you can refuse,
be whipped, and then have him take you by force; or you can run away again.[…]

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White Man’s Poison

November 21, 2019/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2020 / Kelley Jhung
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Life Only Gets Harder, or Silver Plungers at a Pre-K Graduation

November 21, 2019/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2020 / Mandy Brown
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Love in the Archives

November 18, 2019/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2020 / Eileen Vorbach Collins
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Secret Ingredients

May 18, 2019/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Nicole Nimri

Turkish Coffee Mama tilts the cup to the side, rolls it around, examines each line, dot, drop. They look like black, crusty Jackson Pollock paintings. She doesn’t take it too seriously. “Ah, habibti, it’s a man in a hat. You’ll meet him soon, and he will be very important to you,” she says to my […]

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Memento Meninges

May 15, 2019/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Tyler Arndt

1. Despite my protests, neither my mother nor my father will concede the point. I was not, according to them, in my right mind when I called from a hospital bed at Ajou University Hospital. They detected something. An aberrance. Like an incoherence of speech, or a delirious register of voice. It’s only natural they […]

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In the Zone

May 13, 2019/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Lindsey R. Swindall

Folks, it’s a beautiful, clear day here on the Florida coast. We have just been given a go for today’s space shuttle launch. *     *     * I grew up in south Florida not too far from Cape Canaveral when the shuttle program was active in the eighties. The heady days of the space race were […]

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Playing House

November 23, 2018/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Alex Myers

There was an abandoned house a few miles from where I grew up. It was out on Mt. Mica Mine Road, past the egg farm, past the little cemetery that held just a few toothlike stones, up a big hill and then down the other side. If you did it right, if you let the […]

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Polar Nights

November 23, 2018/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Megan Donnelly

It’s Monday at the top of the world. It’s morning, but the sun hasn’t risen in weeks. The elementary school where I teach is a fifteen-minute walk across the tundra and past the lagoon where Arctic swans glide during the brief summer season. In the fall, snowy owls fly overhead in the dusky morning hours […]

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Betrayed by Blood

November 23, 2018/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Denise Tolan

In 1973, the Squirrel Cage was just another scummy go-go bar on a street filled with businesses that paired well with scummy go-go bars. It’s gone now, of course; replaced by an above ground pool company—almost an elbow-to-the-ribs attempt at baptismal humor. The Squirrel Cage sat at the crossroads of Austin Highway and Walzem Road […]

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Arabian Night

May 29, 2018/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Diane G. Martin

Call me Ismail, not Ishmael, which rhymes with wish fail, or Tom, Dick, or Harry, which rhyme with nothing that rings true to me, just because you cannot be bothered to learn to pronounce my name. It goes like this, three separate syllables: Is—like the prolonged break of a wave; ma—half of Mama; il—like a […]

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Bad Mom

May 29, 2018/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Elizabeth Brico

By the time I brought my son to vacation in Hawai’i, I knew something was wrong. With him, with me, with the world—take your pick. I remember it as perfect; the month we spent lost among the wild sunshine of the deep Pacific. A time outside of time. Our special little bubble of happiness when, […]

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and so we wind ourselves up

May 29, 2018/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Amber Wu

If you ask me now, I could still do it. Not all of it, of course—not now, not anymore. The more esoteric things—the notes for B minor, the exactitude between allegro and allegretto—those have long since been forgotten, faded with time and disuse. But hand me the sheet music, my bent Bach primers and blue Schumann […]

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Gut Instinct

November 24, 2017/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Kristine Jepsen

I hang up from haggling with a software rep and realize my second cup of coffee is cold. Typical. I get lost in what I’m doing and rarely finish a cup of anything. In the kitchen, my husband is half done preparing a poor-boy lunch: taco shell rejects—the ones in each box a little too […]

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To Mold a Star without Burning (or, Jean-Michel Basquiat: An Art Critique)

November 21, 2017/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Ola Faleti

A. Description The Work’s medium was oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus, birthed one December day in 1960, Brooklyn. Boy child from brush strokes of Puerto Rican mother and Haitian father. Face framing wide-set brown eyes and wide refined nose. Our eyes are drawn to the thin line that divided his naked torso in […]

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Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published every Friday.

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The Night I Want to Remember

December 16, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Sanaz Tamjidi
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From Paper to the Page

November 18, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Annie Bartos
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Confessions of a Birthday Person

November 4, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Meghan McGuire
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Midnight Snack

A destination for all your late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

Mending the Heart and Slowing Down: Reintroducing Myself to Mexican Cooking

October 7, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Megan Vasquez
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The Worth of a Billionaire’s Words

September 23, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Kirby Chen Mages
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Abyssinia

August 26, 2022/in Midnight Snack / JP Goggin
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every Monday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

Still Life

October 31, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Daniel J. Rortvedt
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Litdish: Writing About Grief: An Interview with Jenn Koiter

October 24, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Interviewed by Gail Vannelli
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Dawn from Buffy Learns About Climate Change

October 10, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Alyson Mosquera Dutemple
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School Lunch

An occasional Wednesday series dishing up today’s best youth writers.

Today’s slice:

I’ve Stayed in the Front Yard

May 12, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Brendan Nurczyk
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A Communal Announcement

April 28, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Isabella Dail
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Seventeen

April 14, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Abigail E. Calimaran
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