They call these divorce boats, Jim says from the passenger seat, referring to the canoe strapped to the car’s roof.
The Great Unknown by Samuel Chamberlain
Category: Essays
An archive of all of the personal essays we’ve published at Hippocampus Magazine over the years.
I Am Strong Because She Needs Me by Steph Auteri
“DO NOT HAVE CHILDREN,” one commenter pleaded after the piece went live. I imagined her down on her knees, white-knuckled, clutching the hem of my pajama top …
A Lack of Buoyancy by Bonnie Losak
One hundred and thirty ten- and eleven-year-olds piled onto three Greyhound buses that bounce and jolt their way north on I-95, heading for Orlando.
Stakeholders by David M. Novick
Back in the carefree halcyon days of my early years in medicine, there were only a few major hassles…
Tiny Relics by Kim Koehler
Since my daughter was born four years ago, she has been hospitalized for two open-heart surgeries and six heart catheterizations. Today is number seven.
Second Nature by Patricia Perry Donovan
I tossed both duffels (how light we traveled now) into the pickup’s bed, dogged by the sheriff’s warning: “An order of protection isn’t a bullet-proof vest.”
The Road Less: John Huston, Blue-Footed Boobies and Me by Tom Molanphy
My wife glumly watched a video of the Sierras on fire … It was the second summer in a row we would have to ditch a late summer trip to because of wildfires.
Red Wings 2017, or In Defense of Suicide by Cal Freeman
Tom Mazur took a picture of a length of empty bar inside Donovan’s, a relative shithole in Southwest Detroit … and posted the pic to Facebook and Instagram with the caption: “What a waste of time!”
Always Believe, Love Santa by Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons
I quit my job of ten years after seeing the third Night at the Museum movie because I once met Santa Claus and Robin Williams on the same day at Disney World.
The Police Officer’s Wife by Melissa Knackmuhs Kiefer
You weigh 214 lbs. Your bulletproof vest weighs 4 lbs. and 5 oz. Your duty belt weighs 14 lbs. and 13 oz. Some days, I want to know the weight of all the things you carry.
