Once rescue workers pulled the body from the water and motored it to shore on a small boat, they hoisted it onto a gurney and covered it with a white sheet that soaked up the water and clung to its outline.
Human Interest by Jennifer Ochstein
Category: Creative Nonfiction
Stitching the Womb by Pamela Ramos Langley
Without hesitation she asks me how many children I have. I feel caught in a lie. I fumble through an explanation about no kids, wished for them, late second marriage, didn’t happen.
Women and Children First by Michael Soloway
They say I knew you before I was born. The sound of your voice. The music you play from vinyl records—The Andrew Sisters, Dean Martin, Etta James. The light of your cigarette.
Apoptosis by Genevieve Anna Tyrrell
I need to know: Where does my soul go when I black out? The pain in my head, the cold concrete floor mashed into my face soaked in a puddle of my own drool, the fuzzy nature of the world…
The Book of Favorites by Julie Marie Wade
My father is traveling again, and my mother is sewing his shirts while a game show blares on TV. I stand by her chair, sifting through the jar of buttons. “Did you need something?” she asks.
I Am Here by Nancy Devine
We’re not the first people to work this 20-acre tract of Minnesota land we bought in May 2011. There’s abundant evidence of human activity… But has anyone tried to raise crops here?
Fits and Starts by Matthew Zanoni Müller
The first couple years we were in America I refused to leave the house without my parents or at least my older brother.
Something in the Air by Anne Fox
As the new kid in our small-town 1930s neighborhood, I noticed an unexplained smell in the air at suppertime.
Jake by Karen Zey
Seven-year-old Jake arrives at school on the bus, a storm brewing on his face. Watching him from the school bus zone, I recognize the pattern.
Consistency by Christi Craig
The last time I saw my mother, we stood in my sister’s kitchen, surrounded by the smell of celery sautéed in a pound of butter.
