Fiction by Marcia Aldrich You have to be willing to delete. You can’t be a hoarder, keeping every text message he sends, every letter, every napkin from every restaurant where you’ve met. […]
LUST: “How to Be the Other Woman”
GREED: “Reunion”
Fiction by Kelly Luce Over the course of that interminable weekend after Jun died, Asian lady beetles overtook our place in shadowy Totsuka-cho. Orange, winged bodies coated the ceiling and left yellow […]
The Confidence Gap, a response
Perhaps the clearest, and most useful, definition of confidence we came across was the one supplied by Richard Petty, a psychology professor at Ohio State University, who has spent decades focused […]
LUST: Italian Honeymoon Haibun
A chic trenchcoat cinched at her thick waist, our city guide steers us through St. Peter’s immensity. We are a small tight flock. We shuffle after Albertina pointing the way with her […]
Women Writers and Guilt, by Sarah Hackley
Guilt isn’t one of the 7 deadly sins, but it should be. Check out this post and know that you’re not alone. “…Guilt that when I’m writing, I’m not making dinner for […]
Bad Girls
By Terry Godbey Waiting outside the liquor store, we beg young GIs to buy us wine, working them over with candy smiles and hip-huggers so tight they’d unzip if we sneezed. “Be […]
The New Colossus
By Emma Lazarus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with […]
Knives and Guns and Wagging Tongues
by Wendy Goddard I only ever imagined the whispers behind shielding hands: “Did you hear about her mom?” “Did you see the ambulance at the house yesterday afternoon?” “I heard she was […]
ENTRAÑABLEMENTE
by Gloria Muñoz To love another with your entire being, so much so that you feel it in your entrails. The English definition leaves the taste of entrails in the air. In […]
July: Seven Deadly Sins
Throughout July, the Sirens celebrate (and bemoan) the 7 deadly sins via essays, poems, fiction, and visual art. Lust, envy, greed, pride, wrath, sloth, and gluttony–we’ve got you covered. No judgment. Stay […]
The Gloria Sirens 