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FeaturesSeptember 23, 2015

Not an Ike and Tina Thing

By Eva Holland

He broke the news in the morning, on Labor Day weekend, daylight thinning the walls of our tent at 9am.

FeaturesJune 29, 2015

The Sign for This

By Katie Booth

It’s said that in the old deaf boarding schools, the ones that didn’t allow Sign, the students would wait deep into the night for their moment, feigning their dreams…

FeaturesJune 16, 2015

The Motherhood Mask

By Rufi Thorpe

By the time I was in my late twenties, taking a pregnancy test when my period was late had become reflexive.

FeaturesMay 12, 2015

Homage to Nepal

By Vela

This morning, a 7.3 temblor rattled the already-ravaged nation of Nepal. More buildings have crumbled; more lives have been lost in the rubble and…

FeaturesMarch 30, 2015

When I was a freshman in college, I joined a Christian community service mission called Project Appalachia. I’d never done anything like this before, and I never have again, but my personality felt newly changeable…

FeaturesFebruary 23, 2015

A Wilderness of Waiting

By Sarah Menkedick

In the eighth month of my nine-month human pregnancy, I go on a binge-Googling of animal gestation periods. Frilled sharks, I discover, gestate for 42 months. Elephants take 22 months. Sperm whales: 16. Walruses: 15. Rhinos: 14.

FeaturesFebruary 8, 2015

Dream Body

By Miranda Ward

When I found out I was pregnant, I was training for a half marathon. I was also swimming regularly, about five times a week, sometimes with a club. I hadn’t been that fit in years; maybe I had never been that fit. I certainly remember thinking…