Before
By N.T. Chambers — My love, unlike a rose grew through shortened seasons in question mark seas with hopes beyond my shores and joy behind my years.
Dec 29, 2025
The long summer days
By Abha Das Sarma — Never will I forget the candle that burned on your chest amid uneaten pills, spilled over the dark shadows. Those travel shows that we
Dec 26, 2025
Widow as Refuge
By Kathleen O'Brien — In writing, a widow is considered "undesirable." The extra word hanging out on a line. But there is refuge in being a widow. The
Dec 23, 2025
At 71 and a Month
By D.R. James — Early morning; awakened from a dream of hugging my young youngest son so tightly, it remained until I could defog to "He's a man,"
Dec 20, 2025
This Darling World
By Hiram Larew — The cream of my existence, the peach of my dreams, the very plush of my being and love-filled soap suds. My found at last, my been
Dec 17, 2025
Love has no beginning or end
By Linda M. Crate — Maybe one day I will find my people, the ones who love with a love beyond love. Because my love has always been unconditional and
Dec 14, 2025
Old apple tree
By Colin Ian Jeffery — There is an apple tree at the bottom of the garden where my brother and I once played, swinging on branches, climbing high and low.
Dec 10, 2025
IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO BE YOUNG AGAIN
By Audrey B Levitin — I discovered pickleball as a senior citizen. For years, I left home at 8:00 a.m. to catch the train to Manhattan, and returned at 7:00 p.m
Dec 6, 2025
A weird superpower
By Elizabeth Walker — To this day, so many years after Trish left, Beth can feel as close to a random motherless stranger as she does to her own brother.
Dec 3, 2025
My Morning Bird Song
By Áine Greaney — Naming and loving. They’re not the same thing. Over the years, I’ve had a gazillion identifiers. I’ve been Alien Resident Number 123 or
Nov 30, 2025
Journaling became my lifeline
By Mahin Kapur — An accident left me in a coma for weeks, and when I finally woke up, the world no longer felt like the one I had left behind. My body was weak
Nov 24, 2025
A Little Bit of Heartache
By Linda C. Wisniewski — Despite long years of heartache, my boy and I are good. He left his shampoo on the rim of my bathtub. It means he's coming back,
Nov 21, 2025
Pancakes
By Craig Kirchner — I’m 75 today, having a little trouble waking up, getting up, walking. Finally make it to the Keurig and decide to breakfast. The word goes back
Nov 18, 2025
The Way I See It
By Denise Michaels — Today, I’m inspired to transplant the spider-wort, a misnamed flowering bush I enjoy for its profuse purple flowers, velvet-like, the
Nov 14, 2025
See Me Smile
By Duane Anderson — What makes me smile? Going on an outing with my wife to visit a few friends over dinner, getting a smile from our dog as I rub its belly in
Nov 11, 2025
My love for you is deep…
By Pulkita Anand — My love for you is deep, majestic and passionate. Like an ocean, it’s unfathomable. It is unbounded. The waves of my heart want to hold you. My thoughts are drowned in
Nov 7, 2025
Our children don't belong to us
By Betty Vega — Despite my family saying, “No mother should have to bury her child,” I think everyday how commonplace that is. Mothers lose their
Nov 3, 2025
Learning to Draw During COVID
By Millie Ford — It was a hard time to be a hypochondriac. Daily death tolls geysering all over the country. Refrigerated trucks as temporary morgues.
Oct 31, 2025
Me
By John L. Swainston — It is a rivers water that I want to be, not knowing where I am going, not caring where I have been. I am here, now. The rocks
Oct 28, 2025