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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

Tomorrow Is Another Day
When I was younger, choosing to be a single and childless woman was a bit freakish to other people.
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Isabella Mindak
32
All The Other Days
Pooh: One day, we will all die.
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Paula Dunning
35
Girls With Glasses Need Not Apply
I have a weakness for job ads.
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Carol Sutherland-Brown
16
My Talismans
Buried deep in my wallet are a photograph of my father taken in September 1955 at our family cottage and his business card, on the back of which he has…
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Ruth Miller
21

March 2025

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