I am supposed to admit I was reckless.
A Storybook Ending by Emily Madison
Year: 2025
How You Become a Girl by Lauren L. Cisneros
You are ten and your gender is fat.
She is Crying by Allya Yourish
I am trying to speak sense into a seven-year-old.
Say the Word by Annamaria Formichella
Two neighborhood girls arrive. A few years older than me, they’re here to smoke and look cool…
Greed by Tori Walters
I want the shorts, the sweatshirts, the hairbands, the half empty packets of gum…
Ghouls by Hillary Wentworth
That earthy smell, cotton starched stiff by the sun. A sheet on the line.
CRAFT: Now What? How Patience & Building Relationships Can Pay Off for CNF Writers by Angel R. Ackerman
Writing is as much about waiting as it is about words.
Contest Announcement: The 2025 We Love Short Shorts Finalists & Special Mentions
Announcing our finalists and winners of the 2025 We Love Short Shorts Contest for Flash Creative Nonfiction from Hippocampus Magazine.
INTERVIEW: Lidia Yuknavitch, Author of Reading the Waves
Organized in 15 nonlinear, braided essays, Reading the Waves by Lidia Yukanatich is about holding on and letting go. Mostly letting go.
INTERVIEW: Joanna Rubin Dranger, Author of Remember Us to Life: A Graphic Memoir
Joanna Rubin Dranger’s graphic memoir … is a sobering, stunning chronicle of her Jewish family past and present.
