My father had recently bought a satellite dish for this very reason. Hundreds of channels provided me with a spectral reality that would circumvent my curiosity for real reality.
Nana’s Guide to Illusion by JT Torres
Li Ching-Yuen by Dunstan McGill
George sometimes walks with a limp. Which usually means good things. Because a hiccup in George’s gait means George has worked in the field today…
Twenty Questions by Jim Brega
What if you hadn’t died. What if it hadn’t been two weeks before I found out.
Partitions by Morgan Christie
We heard her scream first. Spanking the cleft concrete before ricocheting off rusted gutters and tin lampposts…
The Writing Life: Girls with Pens — Can we ‘Lean In’ and ‘Let it Go’? by Lisa Ahn
What could a pair of Disney princesses and the COO of Facebook have in common? In a Venn diagram of girls and words, of rebellion and equality, there’s more overlap than you’d imagine.
Interview: Sonja Livingston, Author of Ghostbread
… Sonja Livingston is a poet at heart; so it is no surprise that her tales of growing up poor as one of seven children brought up by a single mother are written in comparatively short bursts…
Review: The World Almanac for Kids 2014
As a homeschooling parent to a precocious second-grader, I was thrilled to have the chance to review The World Almanac for Kids (World Almanac, 2014) with my daughter.
Submit Your Response to This Month’s Prompt: June 2014
Submit your 300-word-or-less response to this prompt by the 20th of the month.
2014 Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction Open: $500 Grand Prize
Hippocampus Magazine is giving away more than $700 in cash and prizes this November in our fourth consecutive Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction.
A Temporary Release from the Blues by John F. Miglio
…I wasn’t there to kill him. I was there to interview him, although the bastard deserved to die for all the death and suffering he and his ilk had caused the Guatemalan people…
