“‘You’re gonna make our kitten radioactive,’ I said. She didn’t look at me. We called our baby a kitten because Cate said when the baby kicked it felt like a kitten kneading its claws on Cate’s insides.” By Cote Smith
The Brady Bunch, Moons Over My Hammy, Space Aliens, and the World’s Fattest Woman
September 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
This one has it all: the Brady Bunch, Moons Over My Hammy, UFOs, and the world’s fattest woman.
How to Tell a True Baby Story
September 17, 2012 By 2 Comments
In this installment of “Love, Recorded,” the baby gets sick, hurt, touched, eardrum-blasted, tweeted, and loved.
Pioneers: The First Gay Divorce in Our State
September 10, 2012 By 2 Comments
“We weren’t the first women in our state to marry each other, but we were the first to divorce.”
Walter
September 8, 2012 By 1 Comment
“What did it mean to be a person in this world?” 3-year-old Walter asks himself somewhere in his subconscious in this weekend’s brilliant story by Sarah Tourjee. Isn’t that the question we’re all asking? As a parent, and as a person, this story seemed necessary to me, in its struggle to figure out what one’s place [...]
The Day I Was Mickey Mouse
August 28, 2012 By 1 Comment
“I was Mickey Mouse, but just for one day. Not because I’m good with kids, but because I fit the suit.”
A (Potentially) Good Man vs. the World
August 27, 2012 By 2 Comments
In Ryan Björklund’s latest story, a bad man receives an unexpected second chance at a first start.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Grading Papers
August 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
“As soon as the student realized that grading was a pointless and subjective activity, he would begin to despise the subject Micah taught and hopefully reconsider going to grad school and competing for the one tenure-track humanities position that was rumored to be opening up this decade.”
You’re So Vain, You Probably Wrote This Story About You
August 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
What if I told you that the stories you create are more about you than they are about anyone else?
Seven Sweet Little Stories About Malls, Capsule Hotels, Rodeos, and Debarking the Dog
August 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
At Hotel Shinjuku 510 in Tokyo, a man who sleeps in a tiny capsule, six and a half feet long by five feet wide, said, “You get used to it.”
On Marriage: The Great Husband Tryouts
August 19, 2012 By 4 Comments
The old gals were all married. There were online photos albums attesting to this fact. Some of them even had babies!
An Excerpt from THE COLLECTIVE, By Don Lee
August 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
“A yellow dipper, a paddy melt, a Chiquita muncher. California slang for white chicks who want a taste of Asian.” By Don Lee
You Don’t Want a Child, You Want a Baby That Never Grows Up
August 18, 2012 By 2 Comments
“You don’t want a child. You want a baby. You want a human puppy. One that never grows up.”
Fifty Shades of Being a Mom
August 15, 2012 By 1 Comment
Erik Hinton’s latest story touches on Skyrim, Fifty Shades of Grey, Call of Duty, Nicholson Baker, motherhood, and everything else that’s hot right now.
Interstate Love Song*
August 14, 2012 By 2 Comments
I met her at a truck stop. Her name was Ruby Tuesday. “I was named for the restaurant, not for the Stones song. My brother is named Applebee’s. Yes, with the apostrophe.”
“It’s a woman’s job to make her man feel safe — a safe place that doesn’t expect him to do brave things just because he’s a man.”
This is a comment by Kat on the post “A Husband’s Job Is To Create Emotional Safety”.