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Knocking Off Mom (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love G-Rated Murder)

I first noticed it when my daughter was three years old, but I kept my mouth shut. Who was I to spoil her enjoyment of classic children’s movies? Maybe I was imagining the trend. Still, once I’d...

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Writers with Responsibilities: I’d Like to Click My Heels Three Times…

Dear Sally, I’m a single mother with four kids—everything from tweens to a would-be adult—and I just went back to work full-time. I tell people I’m a writer, but lately I’m a just a thinker, collecting...

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The Best Short Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “Stamp Fever” by Colette...

What constitutes the difference between delusion and imagination? Where does one end and the other begin, or are they related at all? Colette Inez explores these intersections in her story “Stamp...

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“Becoming A Parent Made Me A Ruthless Editor of My Own Work”: An Interview...

Elizabeth Onusko’s poems are sharp-edged, sometimes bleak, but also very funny; they feel timeless, but also of the moment in their portrayal of a hopeless modern world—ours—and the struggles and...

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