by Léonie Rosenstiel “I’m going stir crazy! I don’t know if I can take any more of this.” Two weeks into quarantine, my friend’s discomfort leaped out of the …
Party of One
Category: Fall 2020
The Woman in My Apartment
by Alexandra Carmichael I’m trapped in my apartment with a woman who I’m not particularly fond of. We’ve been quarantined together for two months. My dislike has spread like a …
Atypical Muses
by Daniel A. Silverstein Every time we enter a new space, our perspective must change. Without adapting to our surroundings, the world can break us. Space refers not only to …
The Bruxist
by David Reames I started having panic attacks again. I find discussing panic attacks—particularly my own—outside of any clinical context, rather tiresome, even boring. The experience really only pops …
My First Date Since the Last Century
by Cathy Kozlowicz Whenever I tell people I haven’t had a date this century, there is a stunned silence—followed by, why? “My career,” I reply. The last time …
A Hidden Gem Toward Unity
by Kathy J. Chen Like all other stories of disease, disaster, and suffering, this one is no different. And like every one of those stories, this one begins with the …