Three scars brush my face. Two visible. One hidden.
Scars Fists Watch Kiss by Jonathan Winston Jones
Category: Essays
An archive of all of the personal essays we’ve published at Hippocampus Magazine over the years.
Precedent by Zachary Ostraff
I found the bunny by a fence. It was dead. I checked its body for wounds. Nothing. It just died.
Brothers In Arms by Jessica Ripka
It is the day after Christmas and we are about to drive to Connecticut in the rain to see relatives in a car rented under my name.
The New Pretty by Nicole Graev Lipson
I fall back on the greatest power I know as an adolescent girl, which is to say nothing.
Say You Want to Live and Be Beautiful by Lori Jakiela
When the oncology nurse calls, I’m eating a Pick Two at the Panera in Westmoreland Mall.
The Honey Bucket by Laura Joyce-Hubbard
I piloted a $34 million aircraft, and there was no place onboard where I could pee.
Exodus by Darby Shea Williams
Church is hell. But I am excellent at it.
Priest Island by Katie Parry
Quite suddenly, there is a solid object where—moments before—there had been nothing. For a second I am too surprised to shout…
Bar Bathroom Graffiti in New Orleans: A One Year Catalog by Kirsten Reneau
I like to observe graffiti, see the stalls become galleries, find out what people are yelling into the universe.
Women Bleed by Rachel Fleishman
Our blood tells both a singular narrative that is factual, centered around a product, but also holds deeply personal truths.
