COLUMNS
Other Father
James Prenatt on balancing his artistic obsessions with a family life
Letters from Berlin
Annie Mark-Westfall on the water of our lives, freedom, and the true nature of equality
Behind Domestic Lines
Jami Ingledue on why the moms of America are rising up and will win the war on gun violence
Head Above Water
Tim Clark on a story about a man, his grill, and the nature of true barbecue obsession
Not Another TV Dad
CL Bledsoe on his love of outsider art and the obsessive need to create
Brazen
Melanie Schoo on an obsession with weight and moving past the tyranny of the scales
Gaze
Irena Ioannou on female autonomy, true freedom, and why men obsess over women’s free time
FICTION
L. Shapley Bassen
L. Shapley Bassen’s short story ‘Pilgrim Walker’
Consuelo Arias
Consuelo Arias’s flash fiction piece ‘Undone’
Corinna Pichl
Corinna Pichl’s short story ‘Mascot’
POETRY
Kaitlin Williams
Kaitlin A. William’s poem ‘Carve’
Paula Persoleo
Paula Perseleo’s poem ‘Tiny Portions’
Morag McDowell-Smith
Morag McDowell-Smith’s poems ‘The Vanishing’ and ‘Sockmaggedon’
V.P. Crowe
V.P. Crowe’s poems ‘Among Friends’ and ‘Balance’
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