Curated links.

Favorite Essays I Read in the Past Two Weeks:

• The race to find our children who survived a plane crash deep in the Amazon
• The birth of my daughter, the death of my marriage
• Anger management
• Does my love for a straight man change my queer identity?
• A clock in the forest
• Every night I stay awake to keep my brother from drinking, Electric Literature
• His best friend was a 250-pound warthog. One day, it decided to kill him. Peter Holley, Texas Monthly
• My acerbic aerobics class with O.J. Simpson
• What happens when we stop remembering
• How chronic pain changed my writing process, Heather Sweeney

Favorite Flash Fictions I Read in the Past Two Weeks:

• Scab Painting, Yoko Ogawa
• My Cheesecake-Shaped Poverty, Haruki Murakami
• Wolves, Sterling
• And These Signs Shall Follow Them That Believe, Laura Grant
• Last Call, Tom Walsh

Favorite Short Story I Read in the Past Two Weeks:

• A fire in the hills, Sally Thomas

Favorite Writing Advice I Read in the Past Two Weeks:

Finding rest in creative labor, Holly Haworth, LitHub

Favorite Sentence I Read in the Past Two Weeks:

“The earth will forget, the way we sometimes forget what’s happened to us.” Beyond Nature, The New Yorker

Etcetera

• 100 small acts of love, The New York Times
• 100 couples share their secrets to a successful relationship, The Profile, Substack
• 12 brilliant short stories by Black writers to read year-round, Electric Literature
• First Black women to cover the White House are honored in the briefing room, New York Times
• Fentanyl poisoning deaths are preventable
• A Black woman’s burden: The cost of corporate excellence, Adweek
• The truth about being a Black farmer, Word in Black
• Black kids keep being told their hair needs to ‘conform’ Word in Black
• The lessons medical school never taught me, Word in Black