topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call Charred flesh hung heavy in the air all year. The corpses rolled and fell into the pit. Were there living things underneath the dead – sinking, stinking in mass graves? On hot pyres? Despite the carnage, the disease was […]
topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call Landline: The phone that rang over and over until I hopped down off my dorm room top bunk to answer groggily. It was roommate’s boyfriend, Justin, asking if I knew where she was. I didn’t. He said I’d better […]
topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call We had visitors from Germany and were enjoying a leisurely breakfast on the patio. It was a crisp-bright morning in Houston, when the telephone rang and our daughter said in an agitated voice, “Mom, turn on the TV!” We […]
topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call We found a dish of crumble and a bottle of wine unlabeled on an outside table. After unpacking, we toasted our benefactor as the sunset burst on long drills of lavender. Deaf to the harmony of wily old reds […]
topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call Was 2am on September 12th, local time. First time up for my six-month old. It was rainy in Sydney, that night, I remember. I took my baby boy to the living room to feed him. I didn’t turn on […]
topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call On 9/11, I was senior in high school. The first attack happened between 2nd and 3rd period. I had never cried in school before. My first thought was, how is my mother, who wears a veil, going to […]
topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call When the first plane hit the World Trade Center on 9/11 I was at my desk and had already gone to the cafeteria downstairs to get my breakfast in preparation for a typically quiet morning. I worked just across […]
topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call When the first plane hit I was in the library. It was the first week of the school year–that shows you how cool I was. There was one librarian who was always my nemesis and had kicked me out […]
topic; 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call I was half dozing when the voice played over the PA, “All classes are to report to the lunchroom immediately.” Mrs. Harris, our history teacher, rolled her eyes, clearly irritated with the interruption of American History. “What kind of […]