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June 2025

It's Not Easy Being a Blonde
As a little girl, my sister had big brown eyes and golden ringlets.
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Mary Kathryn Dunlop
11
I'm Not Done Yet
The blanket fell off my body onto the floor, where drips of water and pools of ginger ale sloshed around.
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Catherine Dunn-Gilbert
22
Thank You, Emilia
Kids can smell a phony—not to mention abject fear—from across a classroom, especially bright eighteen-year-olds who sit in the back row with that…
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Sarah Prospero
17
Love In Pieces
The dictionary describes love with words like warmth, endearment, fondness, compassion, concern, caring, goodwill and fellow feeling.
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Isabella Mindak
33
The Field Trip
Josie had never been on an airplane.
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Adair Heuchan
13

May 2025

My Mother, a Local Hero
My mother, Maisie, once used a letter opener to ward off an attack by a mugger.
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Paula Halpin
13
Babushka Had Pluck
I’d like to think that my babushka balled her calloused fingers into a fist and punched the priest right between the eyes when he leaned in and…
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Anna C Rumin
27
The Woman in the Mirror
"I'll take it," I said, pointing to the scratched mahogany dresser with its tarnished brass handles.
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Linda Thompson
32
Portrait of a Queen
“Cookinyeh!” my grandmother envelops me in a hearty hug as she greets me at the door of her basement apartment.
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Kinneret Haimes
35

April 2025

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