What if you hadn’t died. What if it hadn’t been two weeks before I found out.
Twenty Questions by Jim Brega
Category: Creative Nonfiction
Partitions by Morgan Christie
We heard her scream first. Spanking the cleft concrete before ricocheting off rusted gutters and tin lampposts…
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…
Watergate Summer by Eve Goldberg
I watched the 1973 Watergate hearings from a motel room…I had dropped out of college and was working as a maid at the Vagabond Motor Inn in Santa Barbara.
Hope is the Thing by Anne Frantilla
At the doctor’s office that afternoon, the young, fit Asian doctor in his designer loafers read from the standard test for memory loss…
Entries by Katie Mehrer
You’re sitting on the bus seat and the boys are trying to touch you. You’re staring forward telling yourself it’s not worth it to fight back.
Things My Mother Couldn’t Tell Me by Karen Lentz
Once upon a time, or so I imagine, a woman learned things from other women. Had I been born in an earlier age it was something on which I could have counted.
Is This a Date? by Huda Al-Marashi
Dr. Farber bounced a black, leather whip in her palm when she said the ladies in our classroom would find Taoist sexual philosophy especially interesting.
No Sign of Daddy by Darrelyn Saloom
Mama said the reason she tossed Daddy to the curb was because he’d been living in a Georgia prison for getting lassoed into a counterfeiting scheme.
Hands by Betty Jo Buro
I draw morphine from a tiny glass bottle into a needleless syringe so it can be expelled quickly under her tongue.
