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Crying in Texas

By | 2023-09-04T10:23:24-07:00 September 13th, 2023|Categories: Issue 141: September 2023|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

By M.R. Mandell        after “Kissing” by Dorianne Laux            Crying as they hope for blood, crying as they flush the strips, crying as they hide their bumps. They are crying in bathroom stalls, behind Sugarland’s Kroger store. They are crying on Houston corners, outside the boarded-up laundromat. They are crying in each other’s arms, at [...]

Beowulf

By | 2023-03-09T13:07:50-08:00 March 15th, 2023|Categories: Issue 139: 16 March 2023|Tags: , , , , |

By Irene Cooper   While my glamorous friend Anne underwent her abortion, I sat at a lunch counter and ate a grilled cheese sandwich and a chocolate shake before returning to the abortion clinic in the urban grid of Brooklyn. I sat in the waiting area and read Beowulf, assigned by my high school sophomore English [...]

On the Front Lines

By | 2019-12-12T12:26:03-08:00 January 19th, 2017|Categories: Issue 8: 19 Jan 2017|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Fiction by Kit-Bacon Gressitt You look in the bedroom mirror, small enough to deny self-adoration, and pull your brownish hair into a ponytail. Tight, like Mother used to do it. You turn to the bed. Your clothes are laid out on sheets held in place by perfect hospital corners. You dress in practical layers, to accommodate the [...]

The President-Elect Speaks

By | 2017-02-23T21:57:24-08:00 December 1st, 2016|Categories: Issue 1: 1 Dec 2016|Tags: , , , , , , , |

By Marge Piercy   “You can always go to another state” to have your abortion just so long as you’re rich, have a nanny to watch your kids, can take off from your job, have a ride available or your own car, aren’t living at home or needing to hide the procedure. Yes affluent women could [...]