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A Little Crow by Louis Gilbert

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For me it begins with a weekend of moving to a new house. Prioritising the unpacking of records […]

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Not Cool by Laura Carnes Williams

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The doorbell rings. Dad. It’s weird he’s ringing the doorbell to his own house. Well, what used to […]

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Crying is Pronounced Caoineadh in Gaelic by Kathleen McKitty Harris

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I’ve only seen my father cry a handful of times. There’s an immediate sense of betrayal in typing […]

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The Man in White Underwear Thinks I’m Crazy by Cynthia Gralla

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Whenever I imagine my father, he’s almost naked. For three years after my parents divorced, I spent every […]

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Water Underground by John Carr Walker

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I found a snapshot of my father taken before I was born, a black-and-white print on foxed paper […]

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Not Our Cat by Paul Shacksmyth

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I paint the shed a gun metal blue and fix the rotten wooden panels at the base where […]

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