Six Hens

A lit journal featuring true stories by women about moments that segment life into before & after. Editors: @sgalante & @burstiner #amreading #CNF #submissions

[Six Hens @Six_Hens]

I had flown to Minneapolis knowing I would drive to Canby to bury my mother and my dog in what I regarded as my last act of care for my mother. #amreading #CNF #sayinggoodbye #familyhistory https://t.co/MA9ZmggCxk

[Six Hens @Six_Hens]

The moment took me back to my ten-year-old self when I sat in my room plotting my first suicide attempt. #amreading #CNF #teenmom #childhoodtrauma https://t.co/jxz3AvMJW4

[Six Hens @Six_Hens]

After my last #miscarriage, we’d decided to let it go. We would make do with our misshapen family – the one that included his two children, my living son and my dead son. #amreading #CNF #childloss #failedIVF #grief https://t.co/PQfDn5TnBO

[Six Hens @Six_Hens]

He took the note and gently nestled it between the two doors at the front of our unlit fireplace, where we expected the elves to pick it up sometime during the night. #amreading#CNF #innocence #discovery #santa https://t.co/eTtlqYHw90

[Six Hens @Six_Hens]

He died suddenly, slipping on the steps of a bus taking senior citizens to Walmart. He hit his head on the cement and never fully recovered. #amreading #CNF #familyhistories #grief #discovery https://t.co/x7A8dokWiH

[Six Hens @Six_Hens]

Ali had the look of a Lebanese Arab, with amazingly thick, dark eyebrows and a head of glossy black hair. Radwan was all angles. #amreading #CNF #refugees #cultureshock #helpless https://t.co/AO8xrIk7Du

[Six Hens @Six_Hens]

It was the forties, when mommies stayed home and daddies went to work. #amreading #CNF #unexpected #grief #motherdaughter https://t.co/KSrxeimQej

[Six Hens @Six_Hens]

Her wishes could not have been more clear, though foreshadowing her dementia, she had misspelled her father’s name. #amreading #CNF #roadtrip #goodbyes #familyhistory https://t.co/s3uxmTtksL

[Six Hens @Six_Hens]

My discharge papers were already signed and next to me on the bed. Everything was ready for our release, except me. #amreading #CNF #teenmom #conflicted https://t.co/Y2B0CXO4lY

[Six Hens @Six_Hens]

Before the burn, there was this moment of beauty on the pier’s edge, my husband’s body at my side, his leg pressing into mine, my hand in his. #amreading #CNF #childloss #bereavedmom #grief #love https://t.co/T39rC4EvLT

[Six Hens @Six_Hens]

Gibson never told me if he was hurt by that moment, but part of me still feels like it forced him to grow up too quickly. #amreading #CNF #magic #Christmas #discovery https://t.co/swvGMZr3rV

[Six Hens @Six_Hens]

I can picture my grandpa writing these words as he imagined four-year-old Jimmie crying and begging his father not to leave him at the orphanage. #amreading #CNF #familyhistory #discovery https://t.co/sdumCLzEIV

[Six Hens @Six_Hens]

I loved stepping across the threshold of #refugee homes – it was a passport and a plane ride all in one. #amreading #CNF #identity #culture https://t.co/csYhB9tSN4

[Six Hens @Six_Hens]

Dad looked stunned, silently cooking eggs for Tommy and me the next morning before relatives began arriving. #amreading #CNF #death #grief https://t.co/cM3TvHZTwk

[Six Hens @Six_Hens]

This was truly my mother’s last journey. It started in the morning with her urn placed deep into my backpack. #amreading #CNF #goodbyes #familyhistory @brandwisdom https://t.co/e9Y6HXDChd

[Ann Kathryn Kelly @annkkelly]

Always enjoy the stories in @Six_Hens 👊 #amwriting #cnf

[Six Hens @Six_Hens]

When she was 16 years old, she didn’t want to hold her newborn baby... #amreading #CNF #motherhood #rolemodels @Nilsawrites https://t.co/DN2vdpqBUu

[Molly Spain @MollyMSpain]

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[Six Hens @Six_Hens]

Issue 15 is live! Congratulations writers, we're bursting with pride. Read, feel something. #amreading #powerful #CNF #litmag https://t.co/uDjAILCzuT

[Six Hens @Six_Hens]

She could almost see herself, that earlier, happier version of herself standing in that same spot on the sidewalk five years earlier. #amreading #CNF #alternatereality #thepast #childloss #longing https://t.co/GpmvIGCUh4