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Episode #68: The Pulse of Memory

By Beth Dawkins | Narrated by Drew Mierzejewski Read "The Pulse of Memory" online. Beth Dawkins grew up on front porches, fighting imaginary monsters with sticks, and building castles out...

Episode #68: The Pulse of Memory

By Beth Dawkins | Narrated by Drew Mierzejewski Read "The Pulse of Memory" online. Beth Dawkins grew up on front porches, fighting imaginary monsters with sticks, and building castles out...

Words for Thought #32

Welcome to the first Words for Thought of 2019! This month’s column echoes the last column of 2018, with stories of complicated family relationships and the external pressures shaping them,...

Words for Thought #32

Welcome to the first Words for Thought of 2019! This month’s column echoes the last column of 2018, with stories of complicated family relationships and the external pressures shaping them,...

With These Hands

George Town, 1800 It is with a trembling hand that I write this. Given the color of my skin and the simple life that I have led and tried to...

With These Hands

George Town, 1800 It is with a trembling hand that I write this. Given the color of my skin and the simple life that I have led and tried to...

Bone Song

The miller’s hands are rough. They move the stone that grinds the wheat that makes the flour smooth. They know a great many things that were not meant for them....

Bone Song

The miller’s hands are rough. They move the stone that grinds the wheat that makes the flour smooth. They know a great many things that were not meant for them....

Interview with Cover Artist Tangmo Cecchini

The work of freelance illustrator and fine artist Tangmo Cecchini graces the cover of Apex Magazine this month. Her work blends the influences of pop surrealism, fantasy, and a touch...

Interview with Cover Artist Tangmo Cecchini

The work of freelance illustrator and fine artist Tangmo Cecchini graces the cover of Apex Magazine this month. Her work blends the influences of pop surrealism, fantasy, and a touch...

The Small White

For Michael Haulică and his colored butterflies While the city was asleep … It first happened on a night when the city was asleep. Butterflies painted on the walls of...

The Small White

For Michael Haulică and his colored butterflies While the city was asleep … It first happened on a night when the city was asleep. Butterflies painted on the walls of...

Writing Wrongly

I wrote my debut novel, Junction, in the year of the birth of my second daughter, which was also the year I developed colon cancer. I didn’t know it at...

Writing Wrongly

I wrote my debut novel, Junction, in the year of the birth of my second daughter, which was also the year I developed colon cancer. I didn’t know it at...