The Reading Room
Released in drops,
like blood from veins.
Essays, poems, short fiction, and theological reflections. Work that does not look away from what it finds.
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Maiden Mary
Four-foot something in a garden at last light, cutting flowers while the dusk comes down around her. A short film — for the women who stayed small and grew everything.
Watch here →Paper Airplane
A fire tower. A winter solstice. Two brothers and the weight that settles between people who have stopped knowing how to say the thing. A story about what the hands hold long after the mind lets go.
Read here →Seventeen
Some years don't end when the calendar says they do. Some years keep going until they've taken what they came for.
Read on Substack →The Rock that Blows
On the particular kind of damage that doesn't show up on an X-ray, and the long work of naming it.
Read on Substack →