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by Susan D. Bernstein “My mama is mean,” Ruth used to say. I couldn’t see this myself. Miss Cora, as Ruth insisted her mother liked to...

by Peyton Vance “Now, you just have to be easy with it.” I say. Eli looks at the buttons and levers.           “OK.”           “Wh...

by Flo Gelo Nella, my forty-eight-year-old mother, sits at the edge of the bed. Her legs hang over the side, her feet cool as she like...

by Dennis “Suge” Thompson Red lies in bed at Israel Hospice. On Christmas Eve morning, he talks in semi-conscious lucidity about Keats...