© Carina Zacharias Find more about Carina at her website, YouTube, and Instagram. We meet at dusk, on a crisp and clear evening in early March. Mona knows the way, since only a few weeks earlier she has completed the same route. So I follow, first on foot and then on bicycle, as we find …
We’ve started a new list of books, films, and more at the Discord, all written from our own members. See #our-stories at the Discord. One of our members, Navarre, also added these to a list at Open Library.
© Nina Munteanu I’m Canadian, and I love the snow. When I grew up in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, we enjoyed a brisk cold winter with deep snow for a good six months of the year. I’ve since lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, which experiences a milder regional climate; I now live in the …
© Sara Davis Downpour Tropical Storm Fay rolled in the week after Independence Day. Usually storm number six doesn’t make landfall until August, but you might say that 2020 was a tempestuous year. That Friday, it rained all day. Marooned in South Philadelphia without a car, I watched from my window for a break in …
© Carolyn Welch Author of California Poems, Moon Willow Press (2012) In the late 1990s I drove Laguna Canyon Road for the first time. It goes from near the Irvine Spectrum Center to the Pacific Ocean, though I had driven that first time from the next town east, Laguna Hills. I fell in love with …
© Mary Woodbury Mary’s LinkTree. Author of the Back to the Garden, The Stolen Child, and Bird Song: A Novella. I was just a teenager when Pappaw died and just over a month later, Mammaw died. I can’t remember whose funeral it was when I learned about the pine trees. I do remember my mother’s …
© Jack Waro Jack Waro scribbles things about ecology and art at https://jackwaro.substack.com/. A pair of aging protestors and I stand beneath the Official Halls of Power. We talk doom and gloom. Chatting about the weather with two old ladies. “It’s different,” says one. She’s been protesting since the 1970s. “In the past it was …