The Things That Followed Me Home
There are things you inherit from your family that don't show up in photographs. You can inherit someone's eyes.Someone else's hands.A crooked smile that appears in three generations of wedding…
The Costume That Fit
The costume was in a box labeled HALLOWEEN in my mother's handwriting. I found it three months after she died. There were other things in the box. A string of…
The First Generation
There is something I have only recently begun to understand about being the first generation. You are never entirely alone. Not even when you are sitting at the kitchen table…
The Serbian Things I Didn’t Understand Until I Grew Up
Author: Milanka Sulejic When I was a kid, I thought my family was weird.Not bad weird.Just… Serbian weird.I didn't have the vocabulary for it then. I only knew that other…
A String of Seasons
1st of November 2024. Not everything came down
That day. The old world had been dying for ages,
Is Originality in Art Truly Possible?
Art is a form of human creation, something that moves through imagination, skill, and emotion. Sometimes it’s aesthetically pleasing, other times brutally truthful. For some, it becomes a way to…
Why do we feel understood by fictional characters?
People read fiction for various reasons. Some are drawn to the excitement of a plot, others to the comfort of escaping reality. There is something peaceful about sitting in a…