Category: 2025 Fall – Aging

Long in Bed

Sep 2, 2025 | ,

By Jane Barnes 81, long in bed weak arm Spend the 18 hours alone Eating oatmeal cookies And eleven pills and to Pass the time I watch Love Is Blind Germany, UK, Japan, Sweden, New York. Pick the Smartest thru my wall. The Phone...

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Bronze

Sep 2, 2025 | ,

By B.P.D. She stands frozen in triumph, bathed in gold, the weight of history pressed into folds of her gown. A monument to the fight she won, laws she changed, fire she lit when the world was dark. Her name carved in stone,...

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Work Required

Sep 2, 2025 | ,

By Glenis Moore My body is nothing like a temple. Temples are places of worship, well cared for and usually beautiful, whereas no one has worshipped at my body for a very long time. Now it is full of cracks and subsidence with...

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Passages

Sep 2, 2025 | ,

By Charlotte Bouilloux we’ll meet again in Scotland in our thirties reminisce about life pre-Covid pre- the heartbreaks and essays and hard work we’ll write together revel in the art of collaboration add autotune to it share the...

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