Ancient Grains Archive
Femslash Friday: An Apology, A Promise
Ancient Grains, LGBT
Nov 22, 2013
My darlings. Today I can leave you only with an apology and a promise -- I am driving to Texas at this very moment, and as such cannot devote the time I would like to crafting the perfect ode to Adventure Time's Princess Bubblegum/Marceline pairing, which is rapidly approaching canon. The gifs
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An Interview We Did About The Toast
Ancient Grains, Interviews
Nov 22, 2013
We emailed with the great Claire Zulkey, of Zulkey.com fame, and emoted a lot about our jobs and who that Nick dude is and our sustaining love for being goofs together.
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Travels in America: Visiting the JFK Assassination Museum
Ancient Grains, History
Nov 22, 2013
As an ex-pat kid in the 70's, nothing said America to me more than Texas. I misunderstood my mother's explanation of the American state. "There are cattle in Texas," she told me as we drove home from the international school in our Fiat station wagon, "and oil. There are great big oil
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Link Roundup!
Ancient Grains, The Internet
Nov 22, 2013
A Texas abortion doctor who can no longer do his job:
Slate: What do women do if they don’t have a passport?
Minto: They buy the drug at a flea market. This is bad and sad and wrong. They are going to be buying things on the street. You don’t ...Read More
The Day I Should Have Believed In God
Ancient Grains, Family
Nov 21, 2013
My mom had been dying for so long, I couldn't tell what dying meant anymore. Everything the nurse had told us to watch out for had already happened, sometimes more than once: the purpling of the feet, which showed that her heart was not pumping effectively enough to get her blood to
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Adventures With My Mum and the Anti-Abortion Movement
Ancient Grains, Politics
Nov 21, 2013
This is a true story, or at least, as true as a memory can be. All names have been changed, including my own. My mother always said, “You can write anything you want about the family, darling, as you long as you do it under a different name. I want to pretend
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The Hunger of the Caterpillar
Ancient Grains, Animals
Nov 21, 2013
In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf.
One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop - out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar. He was alone, except for his hunger, and his hunger was a writhing and a hissing thing.
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Step Out Of The Car, Please: Maura’s Story
Ancient Grains, Weird True Tales
Nov 21, 2013
Previous entries in the DUI series can be found here.
Sara knew what she was doing. “The booze is gonna react with my pills, I bet,” she said in the passenger seat during the journey from Madison to Poynette.
Her nonchalant spirit sparked a rumble of excitement behind my heart. This was my
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