• web features
  • print issues
  • sf/ld books

Posts by Cordelia Wilks

September 14, 2019 |

My First Car: A Melted Ford Explorer

Cordelia Wilks

By the time the keys were in my eager teenaged hand, this car had been through some shit. Even ignoring the holes burned into the driver’s-side door, the missing half of the left side mirror, and the warped, discolored metal down the rest of the vehicle, the car was 13 years old already, and it looked it.

More Web Features

Most Recent

  • Sexual Harassment
    Danielle Chelosky
  • Paideia
    J.L. Moultrie
  • Hurting Myself and Others
    Maggie Koons
  • My Heart Is Taking the Turing Test
    Holly Coleman
  • Three Poems
    Cletus Crow
  • Pure Protein
    Iryna Somkina
  • Your Therapist Calls You Codependent
    Jade McGregor
  • Physical Confirmation
    Lys Granier
  • HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHELSEA MARTIN
    Elizabeth Ellen & friends

Genres

  • Fiction
  • The Cost of Living: Curated by Julia Laxer
  • Book Review
  • Poetry
  • Nonfiction
  • Interview
  • Acne Art God & Recovery
  • Rejected Modern Love Essay
  • Poetry Comics
  • More Genres

Archives

  • July
  • June
  • May
  • April
  • March
  • February
  • January
  • December
  • November
  • October
  • September
  • August
  • 2025
  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016
  • 2015
  • 2014
  • 2013
  • 2012
  • 2011
  • 2010
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2007
  • 2006
  • Events
  • Submit
  • About
  • Social Media facebookblogtwitter