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by Bailey Loveless Your dad takes huge, unstoppable breaststrokes through the water. You pretend that he is a whale: a gentle giant,...

By Michael H. Kew Occasionally, through clear air within two hundred miles of California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base (“Welcome to Space...

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by Kaia Gallagher The story of her harrowing escape remained etched on her face. Years of fear, grief, and sorrow carved deep worry lines...

by Evan Baughfman “Anybody hear us up there?!” voices shrieked beneath the waves of Pearl Harbor. Everyone heard. *** Trapped inside the...

by Penne Lynne “You move on from it, but the death will never disappear from view.” —Elizabeth McCracken Navigation Horizontal on a...

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by Melody Greenfield “I want to worship your body,” my husband says to me. It’s a line that’s come up repeatedly over the years, not that...

by Trey Burnette CW: Suicide attempt I was twelve and just more than halfway through seventh grade when we moved near Santa Cruz. We...

by Harry Gordon Fumbling through old pictures while waiting out the pandemic, I came across this one of me taken forty-three years ago....

By Shantha J. Bunyan The dolphin looked directly into my eyes! My heart was racing. I couldn't believe it. It was a dream come true in so...

By Whitney Mackman “So, they aren’t actually glowworms,” our guide stalled as we settled in against the sharp, ridged limestone for the...

By Michael Cuglietta We took a bus to the Aztec pyramids, an hour outside Mexico City. After touring the pyramids, we were picked up by...

By David Martinez I had a reverence for skateboarding, spoke about it like it had saved my life, and for the years in which I skated, and...

What a year. 2020. In most ways, I’m glad it is over. I lost my job, had hard times, struggled in more ways than one. And, so did...

Dad Hacks by David Zimmerle You’re on your own now more than ever, dad. And somehow March never ended. The worst Friday the 13th ever....

by Kira Star I woke up to another routine morning in my sleepy, foggy town in Central California. While looking out my bedroom window, I...

Salad Days by Karen t'Kint These days taste like vinegar, deceptively served in a plastic party glass on a warm spring evening. Only...

13 Ways of Looking at a Virus 1. It starts with a whisper. One headline amongst many. A lesser order disaster of concern. Only one person...