Massive content warning: If you yourself are a survivor of sexual assault, you have our permission to skip this piece. It’s up to you. But please pass it along. The essay that follows contains descriptions of sexual assault. Rape and sexual assault can happen to anyone regardless of gender identity or gender presentation. Likewise, issues…
Category: Another World Within
Facing History (Sunday Summary)
Welcome to the Sunday Summary for the week of 16 April 2022. Adam and Erika have some submissions in the inbox to go through. It’s very exciting–with the blossoming of the trees and flowers, we’re also hopeful that the seeds planted with the founding of this website will go on to bear fruit this spring….
Social Media and Writing (Caturday Questions)
So Human-Mom is getting the hang of posting on Instagram. And it turns out social media can be fun. It’s fun composing the post. It’s fun getting that first like, that first share. Little Cat isn’t convinced. It’s not just that he distrusts social media, though he certainly does that. It’s more that he thinks…
Goldberg Variations & Other Favorites (W/L/R)
This week’s Watch/Listen/Read brings us from Baroque music such as Bach’s Goldberg Variations to modern LGBTQ+ Poetry. Leave a note in the comments below to let us know what you have been watching, listening to, or reading! Netflix and Sleepless Nights Nights where I’m awake in the middle of the night because things hurt are…
Is this a Jook?: Congee Made me Feel Sick
The Trigger: Congee Restaurant December 2017. In a hostel room in Seoul, Zoe was flipping through pages of her itinerary. She was rehearsing in her head where to go and what to eat first. Winter in Seoul is never pleasant to people from the south, as the coldest days in Hong Kong never fall below…
Thomas Jefferson: Accidental Novelist
I’ve often wanted to sit down and write an essay on what I call the accidental novel. What, you may ask… Well, it’s a book that was written as a work of nonfiction but that shows a different story than it tells. Read along with me for a moment and you’ll see. The accidental novel…
Not all Poems are about Flowers… This one is, Though
A Gift of Flowers It might have been tulips. I think they were yellow. A smiling man handed them to a woman in a crowded bomb shelter.I saw the picture over the shoulder of some talking head on my screen. Thousands of miles away in my bedroom I’m thinking of these stories I’ve been writing…
Sunday Summary
It’s already the middle of April–and ever since I had to memorize part of the prologue for school, April always brings thoughts of Canterbury Tales and the new adventures spring might bring. At least adventures for some people. Perhaps you’ll find adventures to take your mind on in the fantastic stories we bring you each…
Passover (Caturday Questions)
It’s Passover, and Human-Mom is praying to God that how some day she will be set free from the tyranny of her feline tormentors always sitting on her forearms and swishing her face with their tails while she’s trying to write. They’re cute, though, so she has mixed feelings. Passover as Twice-Told Tale Little Cat…
Passover and More (Watch/Listen/Read)
Erika Writes: Passover Prep Preparation for Passover has been underway here, which has meant finding an even more careful balance between doing what needs to be done and resting enough. Sure, I can rest once the holiday begins, but who wants to celebrate a holiday when you’re already feeling worn out. Especially one celebrating freedom–something…