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 […]
Knives and Guns and Wagging Tongues
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 […]
Why do I write what I do?
By Gloria Muñoz “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, […]
Mutt and Jeff: A Coming Out Story
“You two look like Mutt and Jeff.” I imagine this is the first thing my grandmother would say if she were still alive and got to meet my girlfriend, Julie. Mutt and […]
Downstate with Frank
By Julia Connolly Yellow-tinted aviator shades. Brown leather safari jacket. Tan patent leather fake Gucci slip-ons. Dirty-blond home perm. Marlboro. He was Frank, the 30-something Vietnam vet who sat next to me […]
I Was a Digital Best-Seller!
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Tony Horwitz gives an inside look at digital publishing and his opinion of digital books versus paper (“real”) books, based on his experience writing a 40,000-word piece […]
Freshman
by Suzannah Gilman I have traveled across mountain and desert with my firstborn in the belly of a jet plane. I have driven him hundreds of miles more so we could […]
Adventures of a U-haul lesbian
Originally posted on Have Vagina, Will Travel:
One month ago I moved for the sixth time in as many years. The list of locales is pretty varied. An Irish neighborhood in the…
One More Silver Dollar
By Susan Lilley When I finally get the car radio to myself, one hand roams the satellite and I almost miss it. And I’ve got one more silver dollar . . . […]
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