Talking Writing Magazine

Sleep Study

Poem by Jeffrey Erlacher

Marisol informs me that I stop breathing during sleep.

Hand in Hand

Two Poems by Carol Dorf

Pleasure does not read the paper or anyone's tweets.

Crossing Town

Essay by Ronnie Hess

I watched each day, until everything, save for one tall building in the middle of the block with doctors’ offices on the first floor, was rubble and dust.

Measures of Grace

by Iris Jamahl Dunkle

The first days after you died sunk like stones.

Deer Season

Essay by Caitlin Scarano

We yawned, slapped at flies, already unmoved by the pageantries of masculinity.

Detour to the Cathedral

Essay by Susan Butterworth

Then the interrogation began. He described “vicious verbal violence,” with his interrogators screaming, swearing at him, 'You don’t preach Christianity, you preach shit.'

From Saigon to Bataan to Ohio

Essay by Tuan Phan

One of our first meals in this new country was the hamburger, a food that was, we were told in the camps, invented by Americans.

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