Kudos

Welcome to the March issue of Literary Mama! Find some shelter from the rain, and enjoy this month’s selection of thoughtful and evocative writing.

No matter where they fall on the spectrums of race and class, Castro writes about her characters with careful attention, exploring their struggles, dramatizing the choices that are and are…

At the heart of this excruciatingly necessary memoir beats a profound truth: even in, or especially in, our most intimate relationships—parent to child, spouse to spouse—we can’t completely know each…

Morning, still. The dog needs walking. “I want the orange stroller!” you say. Your bed-pressed blonde hair’s like a shout. I say no. The weather’s warm, and you’ve two new…

Together, we watch the pine needles slip to the ground, laugh at the songbirds and woodpeckers filling the air with hymns.

but I have to wash the same dishes again. I close my eyes and bemoan the fates when a glass clinks against the edge of the sink, and I hear…

I tell him it’s time to take a nap; he says, no thanks, mommy, studies my face for a response.

As in enlarging or expanding, as in piecing together He sits at the brand-new kitchen table in dwindling light, a flat screen before him erasing what was to make something…

There are mysterious moments in writing, when a metaphor or a critical bit of dialogue or a plot device just clicks into place in your mind. The “hole in the…

I hate when fish die, loathe the inevitable conversation with a woebegone child about the fact that all living things must die, worry that if this fish expires, my youngest…

You learn not sleeping makes you furious. It isn’t the baby’s fault. How could it be? It’s His fault, the one who is sleeping when you are walking and nursing…