In 1964, my uncle Bob, the sweetest of my three uncles, gave me a Smith Corona Galaxie II manual typewriter….
My Beautiful Machine by Richard Goodman
Category: Essays
An archive of all of the personal essays we’ve published at Hippocampus Magazine over the years.
Artifacts by Mark Liebenow
A month after Ev’s death, still in shock that someone in her 40s could die without warning, I sit in the silence of a house emptied of her voice.
The Swing by Ruth Kogen Goodwin
As a newborn, my daughter hated being static. Whether bouncing, rocking, jiggling, or swinging, she made clear that she preferred to be moving.
Good to the Girls by Paula Martinac
The doors slide open and your stomach flips. The Commissioner is standing in the car, alone.
Bathtub Dishes at the Witching Hour by Tamzin Mitchell
“You came to Berlin to wash dishes in the bathtub,” teases Lijana, my landlady.
Another Kiss Goodbye, Comrade Drena by Sean Finucane Toner
I’m not one for clams, or bars, but she liked a California Sour with her lunch, and she was known there.
Dem Bones by Michael Sausun Shirzadian
“Dem Bones,” my father says in his heavy Persian accent. It’s a trochee, the way he says it—like my own name, like my brother’s.
The Good Death by Cecily Blench
There was something strangely appropriate about being asked to help lower my grandmother’s coffin into the ground.
The Kiss by Bridget Kevane
We felt safe, even cozy, in our home, eight of us wandering around like a wolf pack…
The Butcher of Walthamstow by Amrita C
For a second he’d be distracted and the salami slicer would cut right through his thumb, I imagined.
