Talking Writing Magazine

Perceived Threats

Pen-and-Ink Feature by Darrell Urban Black

The words I find most comforting during the pandemic are words of unity.

When You Have No Choice

Essay by Molly Correll

I wanted to pretend I was okay, that it was a happy day and I was there for a better reason.

The Right of the Sun to Die

Poem by R. J. Keeler

After it exercises its right to swell to a red giant and incinerate the younger earth.

Sexy

Comic Feature by Mercury-Marvin Sunderland

I was twelve and barely knew who Trump was, but it was still disturbing.

Return to New York

Report by Keith Langston

The feeling of being protected, of being immune, and of being separate vanished.

Writing in a Crisis

TW Contributors Respond to the Global Pandemic

It makes no sense to close yourself off from others now. I receive a joke, laugh my head off, pass it on. If it's not in a language that the other person knows, I translate it.

Remembering Michael Steinberg (1940–2019)

Essay by Martha Nichols

He loved self-reflection—the way memory, personal changes over time, and reality can come together to conjure a place far beyond documentation.

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