Joanna Holden Joanna Holden

The Mockingbird and Me

THE MANTLEPIECE

During Covid, although I was a woman in my 50s, I regressed to my 20s in search of the spiritual ecstasy from that time in my life. A pandemic journey from isolation to community. (p.5)

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Joanna Holden Joanna Holden

The Heart Fills In

IN SHORT A Journal of Flash Nonfiction: Vol. I (Literary)

A micro essay on love in a time of personal crisis.

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Joanna Holden Joanna Holden

Growth: book review

RAIN TAXI

A review of Karen DeBonis' debut memoir Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived, in which she draws upon the various meanings of the word "growth."

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