Nonfiction from Lindsey Danis
Photo: Ravi Palwe Minus World 1. Play through World 1-2. Stand at the far left edge of the pipe at the end of the level. From a jump position, break the second to last block on the ceiling. It may take several tries to get this right. Punch the wrong block and you risk becoming […]
Nonfiction from Julia Sullivan
Photo: K Adams Tall Oaks An exploration of a suburban New Jersey site through the homes and lives of residents from 2002-2021. _______________________________________________________________________ Note: Real names have been changed for privacy. Introduction Tall Oaks is a microcosm of a childhood—my childhood. It began as a street, but became an image in my mind for the […]
Nonfiction from Daniel Choe
Photo: Pexels Frozen I was thirteen, and my brother eight, when I first heard mom wailing that she couldn’t live, that she was ripped in two. I was vibrating, but not actually moving. Numbed. From the top bunk, I heard nothing from my brother. I understand now that he was shadowing me, learning to hide […]
Nonfiction from Abigail Myers
Photo: Simon Berger Transfiguration Motherhood did not imbue me with radiant strength or peace. Mothering meant that my days and skillset drastically changed but I was shocked to realize that my many human frailties and vulnerabilities remained, despite the fact that I’d attained Madonna status. —Sara Petersen Then from the cloud came a voice that […]
Nonfiction from Roman Cherevko
Original Photo: Julian Hochgesang The Pigeons Are Gone I didn’t notice when the feathered creatures disappeared, but something was wrong. I started analyzing my insomnia, looking for that small detail that could have changed my entire sleep-wake cycle. And here it was. No cooing from the kitchen hood as the birds perched on the rooftop […]
Nonfiction from Lori Yeghiayan Friedman
Original Photo: Umanoide The Emperor’s Dentist Something propelled this great-grandfather of mine to leave. With dental instruments strapped to his back, the sandstone spires of Cairo dusted, he headed southward on horseback with a third wife, a son from a former marriage, and six strong donkeys laden with rugs and silver, soon arriving in Addis […]
Nonfiction from Gail DiMaggio
Photo: Marek Piwnicki Helpless Why didn’t we help, a neighbor asks me, though helping them wasn’t really possible and it’s too late now, anyway. Wolves, she adds. Even wolves help their own. I’m not sure she’s right about the wolves. I decide to look it up later. —§— It’s June, 2022. Concord, New Hampshire, our […]
Nonfiction from Harli James
Photo: Insung Yoon Here Is an Update on This Town On an early Sunday evening in Asheville, NC, May 2018, a light mist covers the town square. A man in a pale blue racer jacket sits alone on a park bench and smokes a cigarette. His eyes have a palpating look, inspecting the long lawn […]
Nonfiction from RT Villa
Photo: Kwon Junho In My Father’s Kitchen When I was twelve years old, my father summoned me into the kitchen. Dad stood bent over the counter, his large hands dredged in flour and egg. “Wash your hands,” he told me. “We’re making eggplant parmesan.” It’s snowing just past my crooked window. There’s a hole in […]
Nonfiction from Lily Damron
Photo: Public Domain Pictures Great Thing Dying, Living On Acer saccharinum has several names. Its epithet, saccharinum, refers to the tree’s sweet sap that can be turned into syrup. It’s also silver maple or silverleaf, since the pale green undersides of its foliage seem to shimmer silver in the sun. Or river maple, for its […]
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