Truth
Anna Catone - { Histories }
Janlori Goldman - { Bachelard's Cabinet } { The Jewish Gauchos of Entre Rios, 1917 }{ One Good Turn }
Elizabeth Howort - { The Sun, That Great Magician }
Sam Abbott - { It Eats You }
Rachel M. Simon - { Seizure } { Title IX }{ Hometown }{ Swish }
Untruth
Rosa C. Li - { Lucky Elephant }
Ken Cormier - { A Day in the Life of a Conversationalist }
Juan Carlos Reyes - { A War for Rigoberto Chismón }
Rachel M. Simon - { After Life }
We Don't Know and They
Won't Tell Us
Rebecca Keith - { Excerpt from Misdirected Postcard, One }
T.M. De Vos - { Leaving Lake Baikal }
Kamilah Aisha Moon - { Going Under } { Don't Move This Dust }{ Burn }{ After Our Daughter's Autism Diagnosis }
| One Good Turn by Janlori Goldman |
In the subway, a girl screams.
A man surges at her, prick out.
This is beyond a man’s need to do
what boys do behind locked doors,
into sheets they know their mothers will touch.
At the grocery my girl buys potatoes,
we make latkes, light the menorah,
tell the story of a miracle.
I remember our own miracle,
of the one who disappeared from the sonogram,
a miscarriage in the canal. I say,
no d&c, my baby will find a way out.
Days later the doctor looks again –
there she is,
clinging to her sac.
Who will see her on the platform
if a man needs her to watch –
who will see her?
