They are a parade of stringless, impossibly fast kites; so kaleidoscopic that a sighting conjures questions of hallucination.
Variations on Prayer by Sophie Lucido Johnson
Category: Creative Nonfiction
Another Version of Us by Suzanne Farrell Smith
It’s raining when we exit Saks on 49th and Fifth, so I pull umbrellas from my tote. The walk sign blinks, and I move quickly. He blocks my way.
How to Attend an Indian Funeral by Allison Williams
The color of mourning is white. Not knowing you were going to a funeral, your violet Punjabi dress will have to do.
The Grand Hotel Mackinac Island by Thomas Gibbs
… a nurse had shown me a cancer kid’s crayon drawing. “See that little blue car down there at the bottom of the hospital the child drew? That’s your car.”
The Mint Farm by Liesl Nunns
She knows I love the Amish—in the way one loves all things experienced theoretically and from the perspective of novelty: with casual abandon.
Twice upon a Trip by Judy Whitehill Witt
“1831! Who wrote this, Aunt Ree? Where did you get it?” — “Nobody knows who wrote it. I rescued it during your grandmother’s attic clean-out…
Who Watches the Guáchiman? by Robert Isenberg
An older man with a boyish face will always grimace and nod. He won’t wave because his hands are always folded over his belt.
A Manual for Fire and Stories by Hannah Straton
Flames rejoice around the kindling, their elegantly dangerous silhouettes leaping from stick to log and back to stick again, bright against the dark of the night.
Together, in Orange by Joelle Berger
I hesitated to say it. I was only eleven, but everyone else, likewise entrenched in orange and black and equally pissed about the penalty, was chanting.
Bare by Jason Griffith
At home we give clean and comfortable nicknames. Bathroom. Restroom. We hide them away in caverns lit by Yankee candles.
