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  by Janna Vought             I was raped.  Yes, rape, that dirty four letter word that makes people cringe with discomfort.  Yes, rape...

by Sheila Morris In 1965 when I was a freshman in college my parents bought their first home ever in Rosenberg , Texas , after almost twe...

by Michelle Valois            We called them slickers.   Mine was hard, yellow plastic, with a tear under one arm that we tried to tape...

by Jane Hertenstein Every couple has their own story, but certain stories are stranger than fiction. That’s our story. It was 1985, a time...

by Linda C Wisniewski             The empty house echoes as I work. Here in my parents’ postwar version of the American Dream, women’s voi...

 Grace  by Vanessa Jo King Grace was my 16th birthday present. It sounds ridiculous to realize that I was raised in a family where ...

by Tammy Dietz We were poor. We were Mormon. My mother was clinically depressed, occasionally suicidal, and my father was a hoarder who o...