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The Ghost on the Zoom Call
Including my mother, we inhabit seven squares. At the beginning of each Zoom session, my mother asks who we are.
Judy Bolton-Fasman’s essays and reviews have appeared in major newspapers including the New York Times and literary magazines such as McSweeney’s, Brevity, Cognoscenti, The Rumpus, A recent essay in Signal Mountain Review has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is the Alonzo G. Davis Fellow for Latinx writers at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and has been the Erin Donovan Fellow in Non-Fiction at the Mineral School. Her memoir, "Asylum: A Memoir of Family Secrets” is forthcoming in the fall of 2021 from Mandel Vilar Press.
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Thanatophobia: Everything to Fear but Fear Itself
“I went on the internet, searched ‘fear of death,’ and a name appeared.”
Finding My Inner Piece: How Puzzles Ease My Anxiety
It’s very calming, very methodical, very good if, say, someone you love has died, but you know the world cannot stop, and you can’t either.
Drawing Grief
The creative release felt familiar. The soreness, the tenderness, making up new words for a new reality.