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We are thrilled to introduce Bare: An Unzipped Anthology, a collection of 43 unique pieces by 35 writers - some of whom are long time members of the Life in 10 Minutes community, some of whom are joining us for the first time. Some of our writers have published widely while others are debuting within these pages, but they all have at least one thing in common: they were willing to shed the layers necessary to bare the truth of their pasts, their secrets, and their hearts. Herein they grant us inside views of the body, identity, sexuality, depression, loss, hunger, and mental illness, as well as deep love, gratitude, acceptance and the bittersweet joy of remembering times and people that have passed.

Lost and Found by David Gerson reveals the vulnerability and inner strength that it takes to grow up gay and Jewish in the South. His discoveries about his supposed "lioness" mother who failed to protect him and his siblings, his bear of a father who remained always in the shadows, and other memorable characters that appear in his life story represent both marked loss and discovery. Gerson exploresthe multitude of losses and discoveries one makes traversing the complicated landscapes of friendship, sexuality, marriage and divorce, heritage and religion. He culminates his journey in the discovery that no matter the losses, we keep going forward, pushing on, because above all, "this is a life" and "it is enough."Philia by Stephen McMaster invites us into the tumultuous life of a gay Southern man, adopted as a baby from an orphanage in Ireland. Armed with "quivers of useless knowledge" he survives bullies, abuse, and the "messy and often desperate" experience of growing up within his own family by reading multiple sets of encyclopedias, and becoming the family "Distractor in Chief." McMaster's transformation from an alcoholic to a sober man in recovery who even finds himself practicing affirmations with a "paid listener." As he helps other men in the program, he learns about the power of love through fellowship, for others, and finally, for himself. With wry, understated humor, McMaster shares with us his family's Southern drama, ratings of bathrooms around the country, corsets from JCPenney in the 1970s, lurid affairs, and a generous serving of his grandmother's crabcakes.

Kristina Hamlett''s debut collection of poetry and prose, She Lives Here, moves toward a jubilant celebration of womanhood, Blackness, strength, and finding your own kind of joy. Rewriting the narrative of one''s life is not always easy, especially when faced with racism, sexism, and religious dogmatism, but as she moves as a young girl from a Haitian community in Queens to Virginia, Kristina throws out the rules that try to dictate her life story and rewrites her narrative. Each section of this collection is juicy and lush with memory, ancestry, mangoes, avocados, dance, and love.

Cindy Cunningham''s memoir, Wild Woman: Memoir in Pieces is the story of how a precocious child, raised by the Bible and emotionally absent parents, survives a violation that steals her youth and sends her on a journey of bad boys and dangerous girls, mental institutions, losing her daughter, and a deadly dance with addiction. Exploring the realms of sexual abuse, suicide, loss, and mental illness, we follow Cindy as she learns not so much how to love her self, as how to become her self: a PHd, a writer, a teacher, and a loving grandmother able to marvel at the beauty that streams through the cracks of a broken world. ∩╗┐Divided into three sections: Maiden, Whore, and Crone, Wild Woman is a testament to a girl''s, and then a woman''s, ability to navigate the darkest depths of the human heart, and emerge not unscathed, but ready to guide others through the dark.

Unspoken is a long-overdue anthology, gathering the voices of twenty-nine writers whose lives have been affected by infertility, pregnancy loss, and infant death.From the chronicle of a father''s love for his lost daughter to poetry exploring the journey of a woman supporting her wife through IVF, from the terror of losing a pregnancy to the heartbreak of twins born too early to survive, from an essay on loss across the generations of one family to the impossible choices and impossible choicelessness of modern prenatal care, the stories and poems in these pages give voice to the many heartaches of childbearing loss.Written to comfort those affected, and shared as a call to empathy for the rest of the world, this collection is an invitation to connection, where isolation has so often prevailed.