Essays — Honey Literary

Examples from the Essays genre:

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Essays: “How I Learned to Honor My Tears” by Gustavo Barahona-López

“My father, like many fathers, believed that men don’t cry.”

“Unlike my father I cry regularly. “

Essays: “Cleo and the Queen” by A. Brown

“‘Queen Latifah is sexy.’ It really is an accident. I don’t think much of it when I say it. It is the truth.”

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Essays: “The Black Widow and Me” by Eshani Surya

I do not have the stomach to even kill that black widow, her body so shiny in the sun. I cannot release whatever is inside her.

Essays: “On Kara Walker’s Fons Americanus” by Mimi Tempestt (Part 2)

The engorgement of portraits: white man after white man after white man on white horses over a mountain of dead bodies in battle. That was the final straw for me.

Essays: “The Smell of an Orange” by Anu Pohani

According to truth or legend, one day a tourist and his wife come to the bar. She has an uneasy stomach, or perhaps she has caught too much sun.

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Essays: “I Have Something Else To Say” by Emily Lu

I am seven when the world turned incomprehensible for the first time.

Essays: “On Kara Walker’s Fons Americanus” by Mimi Tempestt (Part 1)

The idea of one person owning every single bird of a specific species within any territory was wild to me, but I was far from home, and racing against the rain as we made our way to Buckingham Palace.

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Essays: “a complete family / hstry” by Sarah Cavar

“We all made a point of forgetting the period while eating. Just hours ago, I had screamed as if strangled, and my grandmother had found me with my summer dress hiked up and underwear around my knees.”

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Essays: “In 1981, Tita Nena Translates Whitman” by Asa Drake

“Once, at the beginning of an important friendship, we pointed at a flag and joked, Can either of us write anything sincere about that?”