Category: Essays

An archive of all of the personal essays we’ve published at Hippocampus Magazine over the years.

I figured friends would view my return as a sign that my west coast adventure had been a failure. That’s how I viewed it.

“Pull over,” I say. “Now.” Stefan, my husband, steers the Brown Bomber to the side of the access road…

On hands and knees in the backyard, crawling through tough Bermuda grass, brandishing a stick of bamboo.

We should have been more suspicious once we discovered that the door lock on the little Cessna 152 was frozen.

It is 1986 and I have lived in rural Nepal for a year, without electricity, running water, or a phone.

I don’t know why I put on lipstick. He can’t see my smile through the mask I wear.

“We’re moving again.” I don’t look at Emily when I say this. It’s too hot to turn my head.

He was our vampire, though we didn’t know his name.

We build a ramp on the road outside our house using cinder blocks and a long sheet of plywood…

This is not a story of faith, let’s get that straight right away.

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