I looked up from my copy of Hustler. There sat my friend, Buddha-like on a pallet of Sesame Street cushions, face crumpled in a frown…
Fast Girls by Robert Burke Warren
Category: Essays
An archive of all of the personal essays we’ve published at Hippocampus Magazine over the years.
An Incredibly Brief and Unfinished History of Sound by Kirsten Reneau
They don’t think that the Big Bang was much like a bang at all.
The Year(s) of the Dog by Carrie Friedman
Bowie ate everything. Poop. Wallets with the money still inside. Contact lenses.
Hide and Seek by Kathryn Leehane
Two decades ago my older brother pried open the doors of a moving bus and jumped out.
Thirty-Six Views of the Nuclear Reactor by Will Dowd
The two-story dome at the corner of Albany Street and Massachusetts Ave is a functioning nuclear reactor.
More or Less by Linda Stead
The shock. I am removed from my daily existence and everything that is familiar to me.
Thoughts Had on the Morning of April 4, 2010, While Slowly Drifting Out into the Caribbean Sea by Amber Foster
For a long time, you shouted and whistled and waved your arms with your orange safety buoy lifted up over your head.
Spinning on a Fish Hook by Lina Lau
When my husband has a pounding headache for three days, right behind his eyes, he lies in bed in the dark.
Eva by Lisa Dart
My mother was talking about something that had happened over fifty years ago….
The Mess We’re In by Emily James
It’s not the beginning—but it’s one of them—the afternoon her big brother agrees to buy her a six-pack from the 7-Eleven.
