Gold Chain

by Dominic Anton

“1974-1975. The Kurdish rebellion unfolds in Iraq. ”

Surviving Paris, Evermore

by Melissa Leigh Gibson

“On the train from Charles de Gaulle airport to the city, I ignore the signs—the wall of congestion, the burning feeling around my sock edges—because Paris is rolling past the window. ”

Goodbye to Clocks Ticking

by Regina Landor

“Lenny stood alone by the green hedges that separated our driveway from his yard when we moved into the neighborhood just before the moon landing, like he’d been standing there waiting for us since the day he came into the world five years prior. ”

Lines Written in Early Autumn

by Isabella Mason

“I take your kitchen scissors and snip off the ends of the flower stems.”

What Losing the 1979 World Series Taught Me About Life and Death

by Ann Matzke

“I was green the fall of 1979 and when I say green, I mean, I was a new student starting an internship a thousand miles from home.”

NHL 96

by Terrance Wedin

“One Sunday, Dad decided he wanted to play video games with us.”

In Which My Mom Asks Me How I Was Told of Her Diagnosis

by Amelia Clare Wright

“April 13, 2021

          This sentence keeps looping through my head: ‘I was twenty-three when my mom died of cancer.’”