topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT  as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call I remember September 11, 2001 like it was yesterday. It was a beautiful fall day, cool and sunny. The sky was the clearest blue you can ever imagine and there was not a cloud in sight. On that day […]

topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call On the evening of September 11, I watched the news with my teenage children. We said little, because whatever we said would seem trite compared to the video of fire and smoke and debris that rained repeatedly from towers […]

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 […]