Nonfiction from Kristine Langley Mahler
The Rules (an erasure essay) from The Seventeen Book of Etiquette and Entertaining (1963) . Good, safe, polite: you know, you remember. You come close. It’s unexpected, it’s dangerous. You want a collision. Hugging is just annoying, failing, blind. Others roar ahead, changed; slower reactions and dawdling is bad, but a last-minute flash of a directional […]
Nonfiction from Paige Lalain
Photo by Andrew Neel Malady, Melody I live in the basement where the ceiling dips down at the foot of the stairs, and I dip down quick into a wade pool of musk, the splashing of my feet like the tiny drip of the drain that echoes, grows, the kind of drip that drives a […]
Nonfiction from Kailee Marie Pedersen
The Cordeliad KING LEAR What can you say to draw ………………………..A third more opulent than your sisters? Speak. CORDELIA Nothing, my lord. After my grandparents and parents die, I will inherit one third of my family’s farm in Fremont, Nebraska. I have no idea how […]
Nonfiction from Marla Lepore
At the Corner of West Wilderness Way AS THE RENTAL CAR SLOWS AT THE FOUR-WAY STOP, you see the chewed up lawn, the fading olive shutters, brick that seems worn by the Louisiana sun, even as untended trees extend their sloppy canopy across the corner lot. But do you see that circular shadow, the tattoo of […]
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