In Ruminate
An Apprenticeship with Sorrow
When COVID-19 joined the long list of climacterics we’d been enduring—hurricanes, fires, tornadoes, floods, and unprecedented housing and employment shortages—I felt an urgency to understand the overwhelming grief, loss, and uncertainty I was experiencing.
Mourning Together: An Interview with Colombian Artist Erika Diettes
In a better society, dying in atrocious ways would not be a possibility. Today, we are all wishing to not die alone.
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The Waking is an online literary magazine and a part of the Ruminate creative community that houses high-quality literary writing about what it’s like to be human. We are interested in short-form prose and image-text hybrid work. This art can be beautiful, it can be strange, we just ask that it feels true.