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A Review of Aren’t You Forgetting Someone?: Essays from My Mid-Life Revenge

Kari Lizer’s Aren’t You Forgetting Someone? confronts midlife and its difficult transitions with humor, vulnerability, and grace.

Reviews | January/February 2021 | By Rudri Bhatt Patel


Lego cupcakes

Birthday Cupcakes Made Special

You could always buy Sprinkles cupcakes if they don’t turn out, but that would cost a fortune. So follow the directions carefully.

Fiction | January/February 2021 | By Nicole Nelson


Shelves of toy cars.

Words in Our Mouths

His rain-or-shine self-righteousness sends a familiar cold vacuum through my head and chest. In that tundra, I calculate. I cannot defend myself and protect Arthur too.

Fiction | January/February 2021 | By Robyn Braun


Icy lake with trees and clouds overhead.

On the Third Anniversary

I don’t tell him of the dream I had, or how when I watch my boys skating with Clair, I see a different pond, one I haven’t been to in years.

Fiction | January/February 2021 | By Emily Jensen


Bluebonnets in field.

The Colt

There is before and there is after. Nothing else matters some days, but this morning I hear the horses nickering gently to each other in the corral outside my window, waiting for me to get up and feed them.

Fiction | January/February 2021 | By Liz Rood


beach house on stilts

Are You There, Judy? It’s Me, Kendra

I was perhaps the exact readership that Judy Blume had in mind when she wrote Are You There, God? I was a girl with very little information about sexuality.

Essays, Literary Reflections | January/February 2021 | By Kendra Stanton Lee


Cave with ocean in distance.

The Missing Piece

I still don’t remember what it is. I know the feeling though. I feel its emptiness like black tar.

Essays, Literary Reflections | January/February 2021 | By Brandi-Ann Uyemura


Sterile Field

I try to decode the doctor’s words / across a paper curtain. She wishes / I was not awake.

Poetry | January/February 2021 | By Rachel Marie Patterson


On Our Way to the Fertility Clinic

Grief is no stranger. I know / what it is to long for someone / you loved fiercely.

Poetry | January/February 2021 | By Alexa Gutter


The Snow-eater

my son stoops / until his mouth is level with the fresh-fallen // snow, and there he parts his lips

Poetry | January/February 2021 | By Julie Phillips Brown


Partial Eclipse

The first time we tried to conceive you, / the moon slid between the earth

Poetry | January/February 2021 | By Pamela Mosher


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