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Andrle Ward lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband, son, and small dog. A poet since childhood, she now enjoys writing across genres, including poetry, speculative fiction, and personal essays. She loves spending time with her family, reading about minimalism and home design, and caring for her numerous houseplants.

Essay

Built for Survival

Issue No. 290 ~ July, 2021

You move across country, trading East Coast city for West Coast suburbs. You rent an apartment. You move into a house. In the city you longed for the ease of the suburbs. Life should be calmer, slower, simpler. But in the suburbs you long for …

Freedom

Issue No. 283 ~ December, 2020

Oh, how they pound, raising the sound. We are winding on a road in the mountains somewhere in southern California. I’m too young to know which mountains or what road, but I know where we just came from and where we are going. We ride …