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An Essay About Essays by Megan Stielstra
Facebook Threads Mastodon Bluesky Editor’s Note: Originally published in March 2014, this remains one of Hypertext’s most popular posts. Maddeningly,…
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Houses on the Water by Bahiyyih El-Shabbaz
All of my school friends live on one exact same block. All five of them. They live in old, enormous…
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Solar Winds by Gwendolyn Paradice
This is what I don’t like about astronomy: what you see through the telescope is nothing like the photographs. Tonight, there…
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Last Christmas, 2019 by Katie Darby Mullins
Every year for the last five, I’ve played an international game that has steadily grown into a phenomenon online: Whamageddon.…
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Battle-Axe Day by Virginia Bell
The cat was watching me even before the phone rang. It startled us both. I had been on the floor,…
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Souvenirs From Manzanar by Miyako Pleines
My mother and I visited Manzanar in the summer. We raised our cameras to everything we saw. Our first stop was…
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Kitchens, Sinking by Theresa Doolittle
1. The kitchen is the heart of the home, and I remember the day my parents tore ours out. It…
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Marriage: A Grammar Exercise by Melissa Grunow
I wanted to bolt on my wedding day. “Bolt” as in to run, not “bolt” as in to secure two…
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Uncle Art Appeals His Conviction to Indiana’s Supreme Court by C. Christine Fair
C. Christine Fair is a provost’s distinguished associate professor within the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She studies…
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Bright Lights by Matt Geiger
The average person has five sphincters, a cervix or two, and possibly a soul. These are just some of the…
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Stomach Pains by Becky Sisco
Whenever mom’s weight was up and her picture was taken, she cut off the bottom part of the photo just…
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Cut More, Save More by Kathleen Quigley
While recuperating from my mastectomy, I read as much as I could, burrowing into rabbit holes on the internet trying…
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Politeness Will Not Protect You by Nicole R. Zimmerman
The attack came from behind—arms pinned suddenly to my sides, my body immobilized. Panic pulsed through my veins and terror…
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The Outer Limits of Love by Maija Rothenberg
That my brother showed up at all that Sunday was the insult, or so I thought at the time. Robert1…
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Three by Nicole Schnitzler
When I walk by Daniel’s room, it is dark. The moon hangs low outside, casting a ray of faint light…
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Mother’s Day by Julie Lambert
The wail of sirens disturbs the stillness of our shushed suburban street. My seven-month-old daughter is heavy and soft in…
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Touched: From Notes Taken at the Facility by Anne-Marie Oomen
1. That day when they strap you into the lift harness, and you rise, swaying like cargo, then they slop…
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The One I Hold On To by DeLon Howell
It has been many years since I played son to my father. Most of my life since the word Daddy…
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Strength in Numbers: Sicilian Women on the Front Line by Anne Calcagno
Mom slumped, largely out of it, occasionally jolting up. She now blinked at the two large men laboriously, excruciatingly, hoisting…
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