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Shells and Shelves, by Freesia McKee and Jade Kastel
This post is part of 805's “My Home Library” series that features writers and artists enjoying their home libraries during the pandemic...
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- Apr 7, 2021
- 4 min
Carousel, by Megan Hayes
Growing feels a lot more like incessantly turning, wondering which memory from your past will take a new form in the future. Feel the...
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- Apr 5, 2021
- 2 min
Bilingual Post by Sarah Van Arsdale
This post is part of 805's “My Home Library” series that features writers and artists enjoying their home libraries during the pandemic...
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- Apr 2, 2021
- 2 min
Dorothy Was Right, by Amy Nicholson
This post is part of 805's “My Home Library” series that features writers and artists enjoying their home libraries during the pandemic...
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- Mar 31, 2021
- 2 min
How My Favorite Books Helped Me Cope When I Was Sick, by M. L. Lanzillotta
This post is part of 805's “My Home Library” series that features writers and artists enjoying their home libraries during the pandemic...
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- Mar 31, 2021
- 2 min
The Queen’s Eyes, by Kim Allouche
Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a lovely, young queen with black locks who lived high up in a castle with an angry,...
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- Mar 24, 2021
- 4 min
On Tuesday, by Sudeepta Sanyal
Shanti rolls the loose end of the sari and ties it tightly around her waist. She sits down on the inverted tin and dusts the stone on...
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- Mar 19, 2021
- 2 min
Books As Portals, by Brian Jewell
Books can be many things to many people and can take on many forms, both metaphorically and quite literally. They come in hardbacks and pape
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- Mar 15, 2021
- 2 min
Leave me, by Zainab Batool
If your pain could speak to you, it would say "leave me" You've been taking me all along Carrying the ache in your hands. Halt your steps...
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- Mar 12, 2021
- 2 min
Reading through Quarantine and Retirement, by Christa King
This post is part of 805's “My Home Library” series that features writers and artists enjoying their home libraries during the pandemic...
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- Mar 10, 2021
- 2 min
I am Fermenting, by Ellen Gwin
In my bitter sixteens I tasted like sweet, succulent blackberries. As dark as I presented myself, my skin oozed red sap onto anyone with...
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- Mar 5, 2021
- 2 min
The MCU or The Medicated Cinematic Universe, by Thomas Fucaloro
This post is part of 805's “My Home Library” series that features writers and artists enjoying their home libraries during the pandemic...
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- Mar 3, 2021
- 2 min
Manzhouli: Self-portrait of a City, by Tara Manshon
A favorite pastime of Manzhoulians is to collect broken and discarded items. Homes are often decorated with the unwanted and it is not...
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- Feb 24, 2021
- 4 min
The Shape of My Library and Its Art, by Bibiana Ossai
According to Dr. Seuss, the author of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that
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- Feb 24, 2021
- 4 min
Lies I’ll Tell My Son, by Michael Keenan Gutierrez
My great-grandfather was a bookie. This is true. He worked a corner in downtown Los Angeles back in the 30s and 40s, running a newspaper...
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- Feb 22, 2021
- 1 min
Plans for the Pandemic, by Suzanne Austin-Hill
This post by 805 contributor Suzanne S. Austin-Hill is part of our“My Home Library” series that features writers and artists enjoying...
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- Feb 17, 2021
- 4 min
Silence, by Ellie Benesch
As we sit on the couch, I look out at the gray sky. It’s almost charcoal, with lighter strokes here and there. I hear the thunder growl,...
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- Feb 11, 2021
- 2 min
On the Other Side, Ann Liska
Ann Liska's personal book collection becomes a sort of community library for her friends and family as she helps them connect with books...
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- Feb 10, 2021
- 6 min
She Sets the Sun, by Benjamin Kling
There’s a clearing by the waterfall where the trees don’t stand because they’re afraid to be alone. They huddle together like freshmen on...
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- Feb 3, 2021
- 2 min
Boy Lazarus, by Taylor Leigh Harper
Tell me who raised you again, dusted dirt off your saffron-soured bones? After your resurrection, you smelled of peat moss, dirty socks,...
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