FOUND BY STACEY FARGNOLI I never wanted to search for my birth parents. It would be impossible to find them anyway, I thought, because there was no record of them.…
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT BY GAYE MCPHIE Reborn, reknown, rediscovered, reclaimed, reacknowledged, reloved, renamed, released, revealed, revalued, renewed. Congratulations! You have birthed yourself into existence. Here you are. The you who knows…
LONGING TO BELONG BY JULIE MAE PIGOTT Longing to belong I walk cold water beaches stopping to caress thunderworn treesbranches broken and torn offroots tangled still clinging to rocks clinging to memories of an…
NOT WORTHY OF A NAME BY AKARA SKYE I was not given a name when I was born. Not only am I simply listed as “the infant of” on the…
THE LETTER BY KELLY ROBERTS To my darling baby daughter, Mother wrote on the morning of my birth, in a letter given to my half-sister for just in case.The Letter…
PEREGRINE BY JULIAN WASHIO-COLLETTE “Go, leave your country, your people, and your father’s house for the land that I will show you.”—Genesis 12:1I pedal around the cul-de-sac on my bright…
IMAGININGS OF APROTECTIVE BROTHER BY ROXAN DRIMMER CHEN “The music is a little too loud,” I hear Mother say. She sounds as though she’s verging on annoyance, but still keeping…
REUNION BY HEATHER LEWIS In the beginning it was calm. That first day was all rainbows and sunshine. But that second day, that second night, that was when it started.The…
TIME TRAVEL BY DANIELLE ORR I have brought something through time for you. No one will find it until you need it and are big enough to understand the importance…
BEGINNINGS BY AUDREY B Where do I begin?How do I end with you?“Thank you for coming together today”like all humans, I also was bornto someone, somewhere, sometime ago let me announce: “The birth…