The Universe abhors a vacuum. Also a leaf blower. Sometimes a broom. The Universe loves the rug folded on the ottoman. And a ...

FROM SATURDAY, March 15th to Monday, March 31st, applications for our two newest online writing workshops will be open. Don’t miss the opportunity to write with K-Ming Chang or Holly Haworth.

Billie’s not keen on having a gecko in the house—even less so after we discover two in different rooms the next day—but ...

That such queerness is a key component of adaptation, evolution, and collective survival is central to our spring 2025 issue, ...

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THE FIRST TIME MAX! peed on the floor, we were delighted. He’d held his little bladder for so long after we left the shelter—more than twenty-four hours—we’d started to worry it would burst. Had he ...

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I’M NOT SURE IF HE was actually in remission when he said the movie knocked me out of remission, but I know for sure it put him in the hospital, back in the hospital for at least a few days, and he ...

"There is also this to consider about numbers: the way that the more a life’s counted, the less that life seems to count." ...

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ONCE, WHEN I WAS very young, I discovered a lizard egg beneath a woodpile in the carport behind our rental house. In my memory it was summer, but isn’t it always summer in Central Florida? I was ...