“I Fire My Gun” in Slate.com July 18, 2025
“One mistake, I tell myself as I gnaw the inside of my cheek, one tiny moment of inattention, and I could die. My husband could die. The random guy in the bay next to me who’s wearing a faded Star Wars T-shirt with Chewbacca on the front could die.“
“Once, my father showed me an arrowhead,” coming in October in the amazing new edited collection, We Are Nature Defending Itself!
“When I was a young child, before my father’s brain abruptly met his windshield on a lonely highway outside Salina, Kansas the summer I was nine, he used to stand with me in our backyard in Topeka.”
“Your grandmother tells you she remembers lying in bed as a child, huddled together with her two older sisters against the aching cold of a North Dakota winter and the brutality of their father in the next room, all of them listening to their mother, your great-grandmother, beg him to leave her alone, she can’t stand another birth, the next baby will kill her, please. Please.”
New Work Coming Soon
Fresh publications and personal essays are on the way—covering a mix of topics and perspectives. Stay tuned for what’s next.
Sara Spurgeon 