Ann Mallen

Ann Mallen’s essays have appeared in Palm Beach Post, The Washington Post, Reed Magazine and elsewhere. Her fiction has appeared in The Cortland Review, Grey Sparrow, CALYX, and The Evening Street Review. She is also founder and director of The Cream Literary Alliance, a 501c3 nonprofit in West Palm Beach that organizes public readings and craft classes by accomplished writers.

Losing Our Nests

One evening about ten years ago, in a suburb of Pittsburgh, my twenty-six-year-old son, Matt, and I walked a few blocks to get pizza. Soft yellow sunlight, on its way past the horizon, slanted through the trees. A light breeze tickled the skin on my sleeveless arms. “I should have a sweater,” I said. “This is nothing,” Matt said. “This… Read more →