My Father’s Lessons in Electrochemistry By Roberta Holland Trigger Warning: This story alludes to sexual assault. You were working in GE’s aerospace division, a computer analyst on loan to NASA,…
Lessons In “Holding Your Breath,” and Other Things No One Needs to Teach an Adoptee By Audrey B “Holding steady,not taking in air”started when She was no longer … there.I'm certain,…
A River and Some Lakes By Sharon Stein McNamara When I was about 12 years old, my friend Dorothy and I decided to float down the Mississippi River together on…
Adoptee Time By Andrea Rosso Efthymiou Adoptees exist along multiple timelines. One timeline presents a tidy narrative, a seamlessly linear story of how a baby was introduced to a family,…
Our Second Goodbye By Kai Hill I was 12 when my family acquired the beach house, a fixer-upper with views of a bay surrounded by forested hills. The Oregon coastline…
Air Adoptee By Carrie Anne Tocci LISTEN TO THE AUTHOR READING: IOn a seven-seater plane, the air is mine. Below, the ocean claims blood while the sun demands:my birth reimagined; a boy and girl…
The Ugliness Within By Anna Bryant I was my mother’s best kept secret. Unfortunately that meant that when she passed away, my origin story passed away with her. I’ll never…
A Watery Season By a.p. I’ve spent much of my life hiding my tears. From a young age—too young—I’d proudly declare to peers and adults that I was impervious to…
My Spot on Earth By Iris Bryant How do you connect with the earth? That is a question I’ve never considered. Until I heard the word “dirt.”Would this be an opportunity…