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Dreamers Reading Room

Envelopes

“Like white linen butterflies, envelopes flew and fluttered with each passing car. Refugees on the asphalt…”

Stages of Grief

“Anger’s fierce light split the shell I wore, seared this grief-bruised brain, with fiery cleansing…”

Steerage (War Bride)

“My daughter’s line will be struck out, as that on so many others’ cards have been. Hasty burials at sea.”

The Namesake and the Unnamed

She was like a hummingbird, always flighty and in movement, but my mother’s eyes were glued to the screen this time…

Left Home Torn

Left Home Torn

“Each fall the sharp-eyed gannets arrived in long lines, plunging from the sky and learning how to swallow underwater.”

Deac Etherington

The Last of Something

“He kept digging. The sound of the shovel reverberating off the rocks as if inside a sepulcher.”

A Bed as a Nest

Aching claws and depression and addiction so deep, she sometimes just wants to sleep in her bed forever.

Therapeutic Writing

The Power of Therapeutic Journaling

Discover the power of therapeutic journaling and how healing writing can help you process emotions, trauma and other challenges.