From the waiting room of the fertility clinic, I peer down at the milling bodies, far enough for their facial features to blend…
The Harvest of Bodies by Reema Zaman
Category: Memoir
Our archive of past pieces that are part of a larger work of creative nonfiction. Note that as of 2021 we no longer categorize pieces as “memoir.” We use only “essay” and flash” now. We kept this in our menu for historical purposes.
Your Day to Survive by Aurora D. Bonner
Their howling was barely audible, from a faraway place in the park. Sporadic whispers that soon began to grow.
To the Lighthouse by Christopher Maher
Genevieve ran her hand over a few copies of To the Lighthouse. “You can have this one,” she says passing me a spine I vaguely recognized.
Live by the Sword by Cameron Gearen
I don’t want to think about his body, alive or dead. They ask, and I have to push away a memory of him lumbering toward me, smirking…
Vienna Sausage and Such by Chris Carbaugh
…my four brothers, Johnny, BB, Curt, Paul, and I grew up with a steady diet of Vienna sausages, those half-sized, mystery-meat weiners that come in very small cans.
Olfactory Adolescence: A Collection of Scented Memories by Walker Raigh
It’s what they tell you newborn baby girls are made of. Little arms and legs of bubble gum, who when unwrapped come with a pink, dusty residue…
Canoe Medicine by Jenny Fleming
In March, a lower bunk in the freshman dorm. In April a bolted-down bed in the psych hospital. In May, the twin bed of my youth, back in my mother’s house.
Wings by Callie Reitfors
I am 16, holding my breath as I wait for the needle to resume etching the delicate wings of the swallowtail into the tender skin of my right hip.
Maternity Cave by Michele Leavitt
The Fish and Game folks were hauling lights and bins out of their trucks when we arrived for the Jonesville, Florida, bat count of 2006.
Code Grey by Caroline Siegrist
My first night as chaplain. Paramedics rush a gurney through the automatic doors of the ER, the patient’s body flying like a luger down an icy track.
