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Winter
In this wintry poem, Diana delves into her childhood Christmases: loss, reinvention, and belonging.
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Invisible Wings
Family trauma, China’s turbulent history, and the specter of death. ‘Invisible Wings’: a tale of survival, resilience, and magic.
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All the King’s Horses
Diane weaves an emotional journey through the grief of a widow in this poignant flash non-fiction. Loss, dreams, and solace beautifully woven.
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Magical Thinking
Explore profound grief and a child’s whimsical coping mechanisms in ‘Magical Thinking,’ a poignant tale beautifully crafted through vivid imagination.
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Arts & Culture, Fiction, short story
Grief Interrupted
“We Americans do not deal well with sorrow.” When COVID stalled the normal processes of grief, how did we all cope?
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Digital Subscriptions, Litro #184: Memory, Print Issues
I Don’t Have a Very Good Memory
A powerful essay from a survivor of the Dunblane massacre that explores memory loss, trauma, grief, and survival.
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Digital Subscriptions, Litro #184: Memory, Print Issues
Maps to Lost Futures
“Don’t you know, the heart gets lost in so much empty space?” A flash piece about memory, grief and life's lost futures
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Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Summer of Acceptance
I was sixteen and mesmerized by the graffiti – framed by tunnels, bridges, and walls of industrial buildings. It seemed the only view on an Amtrak train from Springfield, Mass ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
The Road to Methuselah Spring
A blizzard swept through New England on the night Gretchen and I arrived, throwing our marriage into question and quickening a slow process of separation which had already been underway ...
Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Shepherd’s Pie
A family recipe in a time of grief.
cathleen daly
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Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
THE JANUS DOOR
A grieving woman learns to look both backwards and forwards
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash
EVERYONE SAYS HI
Grief brings disillusionment
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Promises You Can Keep
Pete leant on the washing machine, catching his breath, looking around. It was a big kitchen. Big and empty and incomplete, caught between one age and another, one owner and ...