People died here…for a cause many of them didn’t fully understand or believe in. Young boys of 17, no older than my high school students, enlisted thinking the war would be some grand adventure
Hallowed and Hollow by Morgan Kayser
Category: Creative Nonfiction
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.
Grocery Stories by Shaun Turner
On Tuesdays, old Appalachian men swarm the Kroger parking lot. In pairs, the old men wear polo shirts or plaid button-ups in primary colors.
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.
The Saturday Before and After the Wednesday In Between by Joe Oswald
The convenience store is five blocks from home. I stop there often after work, and the manager smiles at me when I enter because I’m one of those husbands who after filling up with gas, stops in for soda, snacks, or anything else…
A Field Guide to Motel Chairs by Doug Brewer
I am peering through my camera at an empty chair next to a mostly empty motel swimming pool.
Elixir Washes Ashore by Alexis Paige
A year since we bought the house along the river and weeks since it rained. But now, thunderstorms crackle the edges of sky…
This Is How It Will Go by Randy Magnuson
Next to the girl will be a black trash bag, stretched at the neck and torn in several places, where the contents – all of her worldly possessions…
The Trouble with Loving Poets by Elizabeth Zaleski
The trouble with loving poets is that they leave a long paper trail. They want you to read it, too.
Echocardiogram by Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer
A device called a transducer picks up echoes of sound waves as they bounce off the different parts of the heart.
