Interview Issue #6: Bias November 20th, 2020 November 20th, 2020 Interview The Power of Our Actions: PSM Talks with Michele Harper
Read MoreFiction Issue #6: Bias November 20th, 2020 November 20th, 2020 Glenn, Grace, and God by Gwendolyn Lack race, count down from ten,” the doctor spoke softly. “This will be over soon.” Something stood in the shadows of my darkness—in the distance my name, a high-pitched repetition of Grace? Couldn’t possibly be? Is that you? The shadow of your jawline looks so…soft? The shadow stepped into the light, whispering, You’re in a coma—stupid. What? You heard me. The doc just put me—three…two…. See? Fuck ...
Read MoreEditorial Issue #6: Bias November 20th, 2020 November 20th, 2020 Letter from the Editor: Taking Responsibility by Tracy Granzyk earching for meaning in a year in which so much has been taken from us, I have found light and inspiration working with authors, artists, and colleagues to complete this issue. This year has forced many of us to slow down, evaluate our priorities, and search for ways to help unite a deeply divided country. For me, 2020 ...
Read MoreFiction Issue #6: Bias November 20th, 2020 November 20th, 2020 Letter from the Fiction Editor: Bias by Barbara Riddle ur hope for this issue of Please See Me is to share narratives that will move our readers to access and examine some of their deepest personal assumptions and motivate them to act on their highest and best human impulses. To understand that they are not alone, but can face and combat bias in any form as part ...
Read MorePoetry Issue #6: Bias November 20th, 2020 November 20th, 2020 Letter from the Poetry Editor: How We Will Move Forward—Together, or Not at All by Steve Granzyk he choice of bias as the theme of our current issue was intended to cast a wide net. As a result, you will find a range of poems depicting individuals who suffer from the bias of others as well as poems portraying the struggle some have with their own ...
Read MoreNonfiction Issue #6: Bias November 20th, 2020 November 20th, 2020 When Our Hearts Become the Sky by Michael Riordan thought I was a poet. Teaching was to be temporary before I became a full-time writer. What the world needed from me most, I thought, was my poetry—a mix of jagged angst and lyrical melancholy. I sent off fragments of my soul, and I always included a self-addressed stamped return envelope. This proved handy because it became ...
Read MoreNonfiction Issue #6: Bias November 20th, 2020 November 20th, 2020 Erosion by Susan Hall o you think our boy’s losing some things?” my husband asks. His casual tone belies the gravity of the question. After a 13-year remission, our son’s seizures had returned. This—whether or not he was slipping cognitively—had been the rarely-spoken-of yardstick against which we’d measured the seriousness of these now frequent movements, these long moments when all time stops and when my husband and ...
Read MoreFiction Issue #6: Bias November 20th, 2020 November 20th, 2020 Ride the Peter Pan by Allison Whittenberg here were times when it seemed like all the beauty was sucked out of my life. This was one of them. It was cold and damp, early spring, and I was Greyhounding from my old life to my new, from North to South. I was 24, master-degree’d, unwed, and pregnant. All around me, I saw failure. As each passenger climbed ...
Read MoreFiction Issue #6: Bias November 20th, 2020 November 20th, 2020 Sylmar by Nicholas Bridgman erry Toomey had terrible halitosis. Not everyday bad breath, not dragon breath often caused by garlic, not breath stinking from days of not brushing or flossing—but hard-core, undeniable, unbearable halitosis related to bad tooth problems. Which made it all the more meaningful that people liked to talk with him, braving the smell for the enjoyment of his pleasant qualities—great sense of humor, ...
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