Palo Alto Weekly 38th Annual Short Story Contest Third Place Young Adult Mother’s Daughter by Annabelle Lee. I wish, not for the first time, that I could rip my necklace off my neck and throw it ...

British novelist Naomi Wood clearly knows this, and her first short story collection, “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things,” focuses on moms and moms-to-be who are not only tired, harried ...

Read: Old Lady Adopts Lost Little Boy with Note in His Pocket, His Mother Returns after 13 Years – a Short Story. He Came To Her in Her Dream. That night, Jane told her husband all about the ...

A short story. By Curtis Sittenfeld. March 30, 2025. ... Nora, had decamped to Florida, pulled her 92-year-old mother from her super-spreader nursing home, and moved them both into an Embassy Suites.

I read Sanjana Thakur’s short story, Aishwarya Rai, just as I started to see my fights with my mother as a daily ritual. Aishwarya Rai follows a young woman named Avni as she tries to find a perfect ...

On this Mother’s Day, a local artist is capturing and celebrating the diverse nature of motherhood as part of a project entitled “Stories of Motherhood” that highlights mothers. “What I ...

Translated short fiction: Swadesh Deepak’s short story about a troubled mother-son relationship An excerpt from ‘A Bouquet of Dead Flowers’, by Swadesh Deepak, ...

This Juneteenth, I’m thinking about Black mothers being keepers of our narratives. In NC, our ability to share our stories ...

Black mothers impacted by infant deaths tell their stories BY Saundra Weathers Hillsborough County UPDATED 3:26 PM ET Apr. 15, 2024 PUBLISHED 12:26 PM ET Apr. 12, 2024 PUBLISHED 12:26 PM EDT Apr ...