… that long, rope-like braid would swish back and forth. She was an aging Pocahontas, a tribal medicine woman
Another Brick in the Wall by Dina Honour
Category: Essays
An archive of all of the personal essays we’ve published at Hippocampus Magazine over the years.
Peanut Training by Kirsten Voris
During our weekly Skype session, my therapist, Margaret, suggests I’m an alcoholic. What? I already stopped drinking, can’t remember my last hangover.
Your Dreams Were Your Ticket Out by James Stafford
… as I entered…fourth grade…I was short one father, and my male role models were a dull preacher and a photo of a half-naked hippie nailed to a board.
These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends by Mary Killian
He scooped the animal up by its neck, wrapped it in a dirty tablecloth that he found in somebody’s boat and returned to Queens on the subway.
Gathering Stock by Deirdre Sinnott
“I fell,” said Mom on our semi-weekly phone call. Her voice strained as if in pain and sounded thick as if I had awakened her from sleep. “I’m okay. It’s nothing.”
Sanrinsha by Carolyn Roberts
I didn’t notice them gathering behind me until I heard a chorus of “Excuse me!” Five shiny-faced Japanese schoolchildren, aged perhaps ten or eleven, had arranged themselves in a neat line.
What Rules by Jennifer Alessi
Even in her mid-forties Suzanne would call herself ugly. She’d bemoan her looks and point to them as the root of her lifetime despair.
On Getting Dressed by Sharon Stephenson
I feel especially put together because I am wearing an outfit; I bought all three pieces at the same time, indicating my financial stability and dedication to appearance.
Do You Have Anything to Declare? by Angela Palm
I suppose I could have said that I was between jobs, or that I was changing careers. That I’d been distracted by the curious landscape of southern Quebec…
Concrete by Riley H. Welcker
Father was the kind of man who separated the halves of his finger just to show my brothers and me the red flesh after accidentally slicing it with a construction knife…
