Sunday Short Reads

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Every Sunday morning we email out a flash essay of no more than 1,000 words right to your inbox, with no ads and no need to click through to a website. The pieces featured in the Sunday Short Read are hand-selected from the Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, Brain, Child, and Sweet Literary archives.

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And while you wait for Sunday, you can catch up on past issues: 

• #001 // "Meander" by Mary Paumier Jones
• #002 // "Sensualiterature" by Brian Doyle
• #003 // "Meeting House" by Mylène Dressler
• #004 // "An Address to My Fellow Faculty Who Have Asked Me to ..." by Ayşe Papatya Bucak
• #005 // "The Heart" by Jerald Walker
• #006 // "It Wasn't Until I Was an Old Woman that I Began to Enjoy Being Beautiful" by Toi Derricotte
• #007 // "Bear Fragments" by Christine Byl
• #008 // "Sin" by Max Garland
• #009 // "I Survived the Blizzard of '79" by Beth Ann Fennelly
• #010 // "\'in-glish\" by Christina Tang-Bernas
• #011 // "In the Grip of the Sky" by Sonya Huber
• #012 // "The Domestic Apologies" by Dustin Parsons
• #013 // "The Lesson" by Jennifer Jordán Schaller
• #014 // "Love Toilet" by Wendy Bilen
• #015 // "If You Give a Mom a Nap" by Katherine Almy
• #016 // "Man on the Tracks" by Erika Anderson
• #017 // "When We Played" by Matthew Komatsu
• #018 // "Drown" by Jill Talbot
• #019 // "Picking up BBs" by J. Anders Gilmore
• #020 // "White Lies" by Erin Murphy
• #021 // "Cathode" by William Bradley
• #022 // "What Your Learn in College" by Karen Donley-Hayes
• #023 // "Dropping Babies" by J.D. Schraffenberger
• #024 // "Two on Two" by Brian Doyle
• #025 // "An Indian in Yoga Class: Finding Imbalance" by Rajpreet Heir
• #026 // "Notes on the Shame Spiral" by Lee Ann Roripaugh
• #027 // "The Eleven-Minute Crib Nap" by Jill Christman
• #028 // "Beach City" by Jaquira Díaz
• #029 // "Zero" by Brian Phillip Whalen
• #030 // "A Legacy of Falling" by Jenny Apostol 
• #031 // "Mark" by Donna Steiner
• #032 // "Like a Flower of Feathers or a Winged Branch" by Ellen Gilchrist
   

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