Food Abortion, or What We Want from Chickens
"Imagine a world with only eggs, only potential, only glue and meringue. Delicious, unless you crave chicken."
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The Butter Current (ish) Slang I Am Enjoying
A brief list of some of my favorite current slang.
The Butter Decide: A Short Story
A new work of short fiction by Blair Hurley.
The Butter Musée des Beaux Arts: A Short Story
The Butter presents "Musée des Beaux Arts," a new short story by X.A. Li.
History A Hostile Environment
Dolen Perkins-Valdez on her visit to the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia.
This Writer’s On Fire: Rion Amilcar Scott
A profile of Rion Amilcar Scott, this week's Writer on Fire at The Butter.
The Butter Disrupting Domesticity: Search for the Perfect Key
Ashley Ford's latest Disrupting Domesticity column for The Butter.
Television The Five Stages of Beloved TV Show Cancellation Grief
The five stages of TV show cancellation grief.
Family Weight
"There hasn’t been any time since adolescence that I was free from thinking I should be thinner."
The Butter Literary Ladies Cage Fight: Pride Month, Part II
Luna from Julie Anne Peters' LUNA and Emily from Rachel Gold’s BEING EMILY face off in The Butter's Literary Ladies Cage Fight column this week.
The Butter Retail Therapy
Things we hide in the closet: Zsofia McMullin on bad fashion choices, emotion-fueled shopping sprees, and the benefits of a good purge.
The Butter Tell Your Mother: A Short Story
The Butter presents a new short story by Evan Lavender-Smith.
The Butter World of Wonder: Red-Spotted Newt
The latest installment of Aimee Nezhukumatathil's World of Wonder column for The Butter.
Family Sweet Dreams
The author interrogates meaningfulness by considering Patsy Cline as a country music icon, her mother's muse, and the soundtrack of a brief pageant career.
The Butter Liner Notes: Erykah Badu’s Mama’s Gun
mensah demary considers Erykah Badu's 'Mama's Gun' in the latest edition of his Liner Notes column for The Butter.
