Sherri Alms’s essay from a Texas family funeral looks at how to belong in a family with different politics and religion. Grieving in Texas...

Sherri Alms writes weird, sweet, and occasionally angry stories, poems, and essays. Her work appears in Rattle, Cosmic Daffodil, and more.

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Remember when social media was about sandwiches? A high school classmate would post a picture of the sandwich he had for lunch with a caption like “#epiclunch” and I might have felt some envy, or some...

Magpie Magpie on the metal rail, black and white, echoing the mountain behind— black pine and white snow. Wrapped in fleece, I wait for the water to boil— morning tea. You are gone— the house feels…

ALT: a cartoon character is writing on a piece of paper with a south park sign in the background

Write about the untouchable. Something out of arm’s reach, like freedom...

A man slouches before a uni-colored canvas with the perplexity of a stumped technician gaping at the unremittingly blank screen of a television. He adjusts his stance, a double antenna, in search for ...

Barbie never thought too much about her eligibility. She’d loved AARP—the discounts at Sunglass Hut and Outback Steakhouse—when she waved her bright red card.

The U.S. is expelling South Africa's ambassador, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, calling the envoy a "race-baiting politician" who hates President Donald Trump.

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