Relax by Katharine Bost

2018 #MeToo Selected Shortlist Essay/7 Minute Read/Girls & Women/Literature/Loss/MeToo/nonfiction/Rape Culture

Relax by Katharine Bost

I want to shout that I had only had one beer. I want to jump back in the cab and pray that the driver takes me home even though I don’t have any cash for him. B...

7 Minute Read/ACEs/Escape/Family/Funny/Literature/Loss/Love/nonfiction

Going to Find by David Hensley

I was in the kind of love that puts a rock in your heart and stuffs your eyes with cotton, but you hold that rock and that cotton. Because that’s all you’ve got...

7 Minute Read/Funny/Literature/Memoir/Mommy Dearest/personal essay

Who Doesn’t Blame Their Mother By Stacey O’Connor

My husband and I have pushed the limits of our whiteness with the treatments we’ve gotten for this dog. Jake, the dog, is a proud of owner of what is called a “...