The Other Awkward Age
Photo by Gina Easley By Magin LaSov Gregg ? My body is being weird today. Hands tingling, forearms squishing. I stop typing for a moment and arc my arms in the air, a quick sun-salutation. The movement takes me back to a time I can barely remember, when I could squeeze in one yoga class … Continue reading To Punctuate
It’s that time of year again when editors mail in their nominations for The Pushcart Prize. We each get six picks and untold hours of gnashing of teeth. Congratulations to this year’s FGP Pushcart nominees! Deborah Linder’s “Familiar” While I like these men, and while I have tried so hard to make myself likeable, nay, … Continue reading 2018 Nomination for the Pushcart Prize
By Corrina Wycoff At six-thirty on the morning of October 1, 2015, I drove a rented minivan down Canal Street in Lower Manhattan, trying to figure out how to get to Brooklyn. I’d taken the red-eye flight from Washington State, where I live, to Newark Airport the night before. I had no internet access, no … Continue reading The Long Way
By Jennifer James It happens everywhere, in all kinds of situations; I’ll walk up to someone and smell That Smell. The last time it happened to me was the first day of Advent when all the families with young children gathered in our church parish hall to construct Advent wreaths. The smell wasn’t the first … Continue reading That Smell
By Amy E. Robillard My dog Hattie has anxiety. She is afraid of most things in a typical neighborhood: garage doors opening, people working in their garages, pick-up trucks, vans, school buses. She is afraid of landscapers and their trucks with all their equipment. Loud sounds scare her, so on garbage days when the wind … Continue reading Anxiety Is About the Future
Photo by Gina Easley By Reyna Eisenstark The birth of my first child was the most traumatic event of my life. Nothing has come close. I’m talking about trauma in the physical sense, but also in the emotional sense, and truly in any other sense that you might use to describe trauma. What I’m supposed … Continue reading Escape
Photo by cea+/Flickr By Susan Goldberg Rachel and I told the kids that we were separating on a Saturday night—also known in our then-household as Family Movie Night. Family Movie Night was pretty much exactly what it sounds like: we each took turns picking a film, and then the four of us hunkered down with … Continue reading Titanic
By Elizabeth H. Boquet “I’m fifty,” I imagine saying to my mom. “Can you believe it?” “No,” she would say back to me. “No, I cannot.” I used to call her every year on my birthday. It became a funny thing, me thanking her for having me. I would have already gotten her card—she always … Continue reading Making Do
By Stephen J. Lyons Easter Sunday and the spring rains so desperately needed in this dry Western town finally arrive. I’m on the phone with my former wife but I’m barely paying attention to the conversation, which revolves around our usual battleground topics of marital dissolution: child custody, past due bills, whose lawyer possesses the … Continue reading Cleansing
By Jerry Portwood It wasn’t meant to feel like a date, but when Guillem arrived outside our apartment, helmet in hand, he looked like my silver suitor ready to whisk me away for a night of romance on his bike. I’d cleared it with Patricio, asking him several times if he was okay with my … Continue reading Unresolved Sexual Tension Between Friends
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