Family Stories

Did You Bring Me Anything?

Sep 21, 2015

Flash Nonfiction by Lisa Cox

She’d lift gifts from her suitcase, and I would forgive her desertion instantly.

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Fair

May 25, 2015

Flash Nonfiction by Kathryn Gahl

It’s an odd suggestion, but I go, leaden and lost in the dust of the midway.

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Misdirection

Feb 09, 2015

TW Prizewinning Advice Writing by Ruth Carmel

Kids take and take and take, and they may as well give back. Writing about them is a painless way for them to do it.

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Faith in a Folder

Nov 24, 2014

Theme Essay by Robin L. Flanigan

The nurse's answer underscored the futility I feared: 'It’s all hocus-pocus.'

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Why Going Crazy Isn't Just a Good Story

Jun 11, 2014

Theme Essay by Martha Nichols

Having a famous parent is a leg up to nowhere. It made sense to people that Kurt Vonnegut’s son would have mental health problems.

Book Reviews, Family Stories, Illness | Read More

Three Visits to His Abuelita

Jun 09, 2014

Essay by Patricia Dubrava

She looked dismayed. Maybe she’d never seen such a reaction to one of her cures.

Memoir, Family Stories, Travel | Read More

My Lost Stories

Jun 02, 2014

TW Column by Steven Lewis

It is only now that I have begun to understand just how bereft little Lillian must have felt at thirteen, a motherless child.

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What Bad Families Can Do for Writers

May 26, 2014

TW Column by Emily Toth

You do need Mom and Dad to fuck you up—or you don’t have much of a story.

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The Novel as Family Therapy

May 19, 2014

Theme Essay by Wendy Glaas

Compared to these families, maybe my own isn’t so badly off, after all.

Reader's Life, Family Stories, About Fiction | Read More

Adoption and the Real Story

May 12, 2014

Theme Essay by David Biddle

What was my mix? Was I part Jewish, Italian, African, Native American, Hispanic, Irish?

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