Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure Rocking a full face of makeup to eat dinner with the girls I’ve known since they each had braces. The lighting is bad. We’re at Red Lobster or Friday’s or Carrabba’s, but Ulta had a sale. My basket overflowing with...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure In the summer of my thirty-first year, I decided it was time to become pregnant. It was a decision my husband and I had anticipated for months, years, really, but it was not made until that summer. We had met in the...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure a mother moans the night is warm moonlight shadows the roses a familiar lean into bleak what has she lost? a son? scarce as any summer night’s answer the emptying of his bedroom is proof:...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure “I like pleasure spiked with pain” —Red Hot Chili Peppers Sometimes, I limp. Whether it’s from the cold, or a run, or just existing, I limp. Sometimes, people ask me about it. Same with when we used to go to bars and...
