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Age of Empathy June Prompt: Transformation

Submission Guidelines

Here’s What We Are Actually Looking For at Age of Empathy

I Was a Confident Girl Until Life Said, ‘Plot Twist!’

I said no. He ignored me.

Becoming A Scientist And What It Has Taught Me About Living Beyond Others’ Expectations

When I Thought as a Child

Why Death Changes Everything

I Thought I Understood Empathy, Until I Met This Man in Mourning from Baghdad

I Learned to Express Love Through Deeds, Not Words

60 Abscences and a Pulse

The Silent Grief No One Ever Talks About

Making Moments Matter

A Husband Who Kept the Promise He Never Wanted to Keep

Stop Shaming Yourself for What You Don’t Do — Notice What You’ve Done

Autumn Girl, Now, Then, Still

Settling Into a New Community: What I Needed to Know

When Age Overshadows Experience

Comparison Is Normal, But I’m Choosing Something Better

Panic at the Playground

Standing up for Men’s Mental Health

Strong Daddies Live Forever

My $5 Seven-Day Pill Box Shares Its Invaluable Wisdom

What Life Is Really Like for a Poor Family in Rural India

We’re Now Closer Than Ever to Creating Human Babies in a Lab

Army Ants in the Toilet and the Warmth of Friendship in the Cold

As I Sit Here Helplessly Observing a Family of Masks and Buried Truths

Community and the Apocalypse

To The One That I Am Beginning To Resent, It’s Not Your Fault

The Yoga of Hope

Exploring Forgiveness — The Subtle Art of Not Taking Things Personally

The Work of Art in the Age of Artificial Productibility