An Intimate Tale from the Front Lines of America’s Culture War

The author in one of her myriad incarnations. Photo by Nichole Consiglio

Us.

Us, and Them.

She asks herself:

Is it only a street, a strip of asphalt barely five paces wide that separates us? Us and Them?

Tensely, she’s reminding herself to breathe the instant before lines are crossed, before uspoken truce dissolves.