Empirical Evidence by Wyl Villacres
Facebook Threads Mastodon Bluesky Carol and I were supposed to be together.  This is a fact, but it is a…
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Sleep Freedom by Matt Martin
Facebook Threads Mastodon Bluesky I’m six-foot-three.  It’s a fact.  My official medical records prove it:  Matt Martin is six foot…
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I Was Almost a Navy Wife by Virginia Baker
I was almost a Navy wife. And by almost I mean that I was dating a Navy guy for a…
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Firsts by René Cousineau
May 28th 2007 Mason comes over to my mom’s house and we watch M in the basement. His hair is…
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Personal Prince Charming by Gibson Culbreth
Let’s talk about love.  It’s what all the cool kids are doing, right?  It is February; time for love stories…
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Love is a Brick House by Liz Grear
When I was 16 or so, my dad started suffering from seizures and strokes. In the middle of the night…
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In It To Win It by Nick Ward
Dan Deacon was playing the Logan Square Auditorium but I wasn’t feelin’ the dance floor. Instead, I was hunched over…
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Plan B by Mikaela Shea
“Are you coming in with me?” Nicki asks. “Nah, I’ll wait in the car. I’ll look like an idiot in…
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That Lovely Dark-Haired Girl by Andrew Reilly
It usually happens in crowds, usually when I’m not even thinking about it, maybe a young woman outside of Water…
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Into the Minds of L. Ron Hubbard and Other Idiots: A Review of “Going Clear”
Whether or not these people are or were somehow crazy doesn’t concern me. What concerns me is the possibility that…
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The Invisible Continent and the Post-Racial Myth: A Review of “Of Africa”
With Soyinka’s help, when you read about the Berlin Conference of 1884, in which “Africa, a continent of so many…
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The Hole He Left Behind: A Review of “Both Flesh and Not”
His absence is one less voice to demonstrate and inspire literate thought, literate expression, and literate love when all three…
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The Remarkably Unremarkable Tiffanie DiDonato:  A Review of “Dwarf”
If there’s anything remarkable about DiDonato, she gives you the distinct impression that she’d rather you not feel sorry for…
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The Hole by Meredith Grahl
I want to preface this story by saying that I love my mother. “There is a hole in the yard,”…
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What Now? What Next? by Noelle Aleksandra Hufnagel
Five years. Five years of long commutes from the North Side of Chicago. Five years of working full-time in the…
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At Sixty: Photographs of My Mother by Sarah Faust
MOTHER’S LAP LAGOON (2003) FISHNETS (2003) Sarah Faust’s work is in the permanent collections at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago,…
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Avoiding the Subject by Sheree L. Greer
Valentine’s Day, 2009. It’s Saturday night, and since my relationship fell apart six months prior, I’m alone. I sit at…
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82 Degrees by Megan Stielstra
It was twenty below, one of those horrible Chicago winter nights with the snow advisory, the blizzard advisory, three layers…
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In the Category of Best Break Up… by Marcia Brenner
It was September, that saddest month, and his favorite time of year, and it was a Sunday, and we had…
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Farewell to the Piano by Jessie Ann Morrison
I began taking piano lessons when I was six years old.  My teacher, Ms. Lombardo, was a large, lumbering Italian…
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