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Five Minutes explores five minutes of a life in one hundred words. Five minutes is edited by Susanna Baird, with editorial support from managing editor kate meen and founding reader bobbi lerman, plus our rotating team of guest readers, who you can meet in the latest newsletteR. Five Minutes was founded in October 2020, with the Salem (Mass.)-based writing group Carrot Cake Writers supplying the journal’s first pieces. We’d love to read your five. Submit here.

All tagged Boston

Nov 4
Nov 4 April 15, 2:49

Boom. The sound is decidedly not normal on a day with perfect blue skies and the shoes of thousands of marathon runners smacking the pavement.

Jun 15
Jun 15 Squashed

Charlotte Crowder

At four I was low to the ground, down with squashed lettuce leaves, oozing tomatoes, where the rotten-vegetable smell was the strongest.

Found myself an awkward early. No coffee shops, bars, or convenience stores nearby. I continued toward Mass Ave. Really, I paced the same blocks, searching for prints of cottontails in small brownstone yards.

Nov 4 Nov 4 April 15, 2:49

Jun 15 Jun 15 Squashed

Mar 4 Mar 4 Appointment

Nov 4
Nov 4 April 15, 2:49

Jun 15
Jun 15 Squashed

Mar 4
Mar 4 Appointment