I'm Anna, and this is my Log.

Household Omens

This is another installment in my Story Every Monday series. For the first installment, go here. For more stories, see the blog. Bread molds before the expiration date: someone will catch a cold this winter. The dishtowel has a hole in it: something missing will be found.

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The Dark Bird's Notes

This story is part three of three. Part two is "Emily's Notes."

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Emily's Notes

This story is part two in a series. Part one is "Sociopath's Notes." After they took her I went back to my old name. I cut my hair close to my scalp, gave up milk, became austere. I had lived so long in a parody of boldness.

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Sociopath's Notes

This is another installment in my Story Every Monday series. For the first installment, go here. For more stories, see the blog.

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Cheese Baby

This is another installment in my Story Every Monday series. For the first installment, go here. For more stories, see the blog.

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Snowplows

This is another installment in my Story Every Monday series. For the first installment, go here. For more stories, see the blog. The night was so silent, to speak felt like tossing a stone down a deep well. "How's your wife?" I asked, and then winced at the echoes.

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Simoom

This is another installment in my Story Every Monday series. For the first installment, go here. For more stories, see the blog. And sorry, I know today isn't Monday.

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The Frontier Bride's Confession

This is another installment in my Story Every Monday series. For the first installment, go here. For more stories, see the blog.

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Husband

This is another installment in my Story Every Monday series. For the first installment, go here. For more stories, see the blog.

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Elegy

This is another installment in my Story Every Monday series. For the first installment, go here. For more stories, see the blog.

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Seawall

This is another installment in my Story Every Monday series. For the first installment, go here. For more stories, see the blog.

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Favor

This is another installment in my Story Every Monday series. For the first installment, go here. For more stories, see the blog.

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Heaven

This is another installment in my Story Every Monday series. For the first installment, go here. For more stories, see the blog.

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Goat Thief Unrepentant

This is another installment in my Story Every Monday series. For the first installment, go here. For more stories, see the blog.

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The Machine

This is another installment in my Story Every Monday series. For the first installment, go here. For more stories, see the blog. Deborah F. was the first one to hear it, and since she was crazy we ignored her. The previous week she had accused us of stealing from her dog.

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Why I Hate the Name Marvin

This is another installment in my Story Every Monday series. For the first installment, go here. For more stories, see the blog.

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The Custom

This is another installment in my Story Every Day series, which, now that I'm in graduate school, will change for the time being to Story Every Monday. I'm adding story-every-monday to the tags for watchlisters. For the first installment, go here. For more stories, see the blog.

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Girls Are Often Neglected Victims of Concussions

While football does see the most concussions (and controversy over their treatment) in high school athletics, girls competing in sports such as soccer and basketball are more susceptible to concussions than boys are in the same sports, studies show.

Knife Girls Grow Up

This is another installment in my Story Every Day series, which, now that I'm in graduate school, will change for the time being to Story Every Monday. I'm adding story-every-monday to the tags for watchlisters. For the first installment, go here. For more stories, see the blog.

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Scavenging

This is another installment in my Story Every Day series, which, now that I'm in graduate school, will change for the time being to Story Every Monday. I'm adding story-every-monday to the tags for watchlisters. For the first installment, go here. For more stories, see the blog.

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Alabama Plan Brings Out Cry of Resegregation

After white parents in this racially mixed city complained about school overcrowding, school authorities set out to draw up a sweeping rezoning plan.

Big Guy

This is another installment in my Story Every Day series, which, now that I'm in graduate school, will change for the time being to Story Every Monday. I'm adding story-every-monday to the tags for watchlisters. For the first installment, go here. For more stories, see the blog.

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Shipping

This is another installment in my Story Every Day series, which may, now that I'm in graduate school, be transitioning into Story Every Week. For the first installment, go here. For more stories, see the blog.

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At the Friend Center

This is another installment in my Story Every Day series. For the first installment, go here. For more stories, see the blog.

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Do boys ruin schools for girls?

A new working paper from economists Victor Lavy of Hebrew University and Analía Schlosser of Princeton attempts to unpick the peer effects associated with gender, using data on nearly half a million students passing through Israel's school system in the 1990s.

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