Writing | sucummings

Favorite Daughter

A personal essay published in Carve Magazine, the Fall 2023 issue.

Labyrinth

Published in Harmony Magazine: My husband was diagnosed with stage three mantle cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

A Glossary of the Unthinkable

Published in Humans and Nature, the literary journal of The Center for Humans and Nature

Welcome back to the arms race

Observing the anniversary of the launch of the worldwide arms race

Litany of missed opportunity

Since the first Earth Day we've missed opportunities to prevent the global disaster we call climate change

Today's score: bad news-9. Good news-1.

Patagonia's founder gave the business and its profits to fight climate change.

Weapons of choice

Now Ruth is gone and ruthlessness remains. How will we fight for our right to an abortion?

Nine footprints

“If the cement industry were a country, it would be the third largest emitter in the world– behind China and the US.” Motivated by...

The Chemistry Experiment

“The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extrahuman architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.”...

A Father’s Arms

I knew the fear-begotten arms race and I grew up together. Now all these years later, my father is holding an exploding bombshell out to me.