and everywhere is war… what can i save against the drowning of a nation i got nailed in, from the first crown of my fawn-soft hair against my mother’s other mouth, doctor’s tools slicing her open as my cloud-covered body slipped quietly out, into hands swollen many times from violence, what can i defend in [...]
Games by Dana Y.T. Lin
home archives games fiction by dana y.t. lin Wen-yi woke to the smell of rice porridge simmering over an open flame. She peered out the window to the backyard. The cloudy sky made for a cool, dull morning. Big brother, Gia, hovered over a clay pot with a large wooden spoon in hand. Next to [...]
Village by Wanda Waterman St. Louis
Hello, there. You don’t know me, Although you know my name I think And can at times Connect it to a face. I’ve struggled to extend to you Regard you have not thought to grant to me But I have failed. I’ve tried to think of all of you as real To imagine that like [...]
Her Time by Anja Leigh
Her house is empty now. Only the tailless tabby, Joy, prowls the staircase. She walks to the corner store, buys one red apple, then exchanges it for green. A gilded mirror frame catches her eye in the window at the antique store the owner flirts with her. She is content not to flirt back but [...]
Interview: Nahid Rachlin
Persian Girls is the memoir of Iranian-American author Nahid Rachlin. Bestowed upon her widowed and childless aunt as a gift at birth, Nahid enjoyed a simple and loving home free from many of the restrictions that pervade a young Iranian girl’s life. But when her father demands Nahid’s return to his home at age nine, [...]
Myth and Transformation
by Jennifer Linton The primary focus of my art practice has been to address gender-related issues and represent the experiences of women. Inspired by the second wave feminists, who coined the phrase ‘the personal is political’, my work reflects my personal experiences filtered through the lens of art history, mythology and popular culture. Many of [...]
In the Name of Joan: An Alter Ego Fights Back
by Cynthia Bellerose In 2002, at the age of 39, I began a year long process of preparing for my grand entrance into midlife, my forties. I called my year long preparation the year of Wrap-Up. It was time to face my sorrows of the past and address my pain and fears; to wrap up [...]
End of the Day by Muna Kazi Pathan
Sitting here on this hill, I watch the ghosts of burning wood rise from behind the low mud walls of huts that cluster the foothills. In each of them, a woman, perhaps helped by her daughter is fanning a fire, rolling out rotis and blistering them on red flames. All the little children must be [...]
Thoughts on Becoming a Crone by Elizabeth Glixman
There are variegated color hairs on my head, Yarn all fuzzy and wild One inch from my scalp there is red Lush auburn youth. Below the white Threads winked with gray waving, Roots visible like tree arms against the sky. Crone means old ewe, An old you That you do not recognize. Do old ewes [...]
Elsie Turner by Juleigh Howard Hobson
Every evening at 6, Elsie Turner drinks her juice. That is what she does every single day. That’s what I think, lately, when I’m pouring the juice out into my glass. Every single evening at six. Every evening Elsie Turner uses the old fashioned glass with the gold and black stagecoaches printed on the outside [...]
