 by Gianna Russo (after Billy Collins) You are the French pedicure and the bell-like laugh, you are the Bridge of Lions and the Bijou sale. You are the right answer on […]
Litany for Lilley
WRATH: SCOTUS and Me
By Susan Lilley One reason I am always deeply interested in presidential elections is the crucial appointments presidents get to make to the courts, especially the Supreme Court. Let’s face it, presidents […]
Murder, Circus, and Birds: Some Thoughts on Writing
I was super excited to be asked to write for the Gloria Sirens. I was given choices, and I chose writing about writing because I thought it would be easiest. Not quite. […]
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 […]
ENTRAĂ‘ABLEMENTE
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 […]
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