Above the Waves
Dawn KlingeEssays on fiction, belief, and the stories that shape how we live.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 172 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 14 days ago |
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Let Me Remember
A poem I wrote, first published in Shrub Steppe Poetry Journal 2026
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The First Thing They Teach You to Doubt Is Yourself
I do not remember the first time someone said it to me. I remember the feeling of it.
Someday you will understand.
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Without Friction
The following is a speculative short story about domestic labor, optimization, and the strange ways ordinary tasks can bring us back to ourselves.
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Without Friction
“Your Christmas present is in t...
The Women Who Interrupted Things
I’ve spent most of my life in evangelical spaces. I can still recognize the cadence before a woman says anything of substance. The smile first. The little laugh. One hand smoothing the front of a blouse as she steps toward a microphone. I k...
What Loyalty Requires People to Ignore
By the end, there were so few volunteers that almost everyone still attending church had been drafted into two or three jobs.
I stood at the front holding the communion cup while people filed past in uneven lines. The sanctuary looked wron...
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