We leave the car in a narrow spot along the shoulder of Highway 1 and slide the boy into the red backpack, careful as we work his long legs through the seat…
Lessons in Sign by Jennifer Alise Drew
Category: Essays
An archive of all of the personal essays we’ve published at Hippocampus Magazine over the years.
Variations on Prayer by Sophie Lucido Johnson
They are a parade of stringless, impossibly fast kites; so kaleidoscopic that a sighting conjures questions of hallucination.
The Grand Hotel Mackinac Island by Thomas Gibbs
… a nurse had shown me a cancer kid’s crayon drawing. “See that little blue car down there at the bottom of the hospital the child drew? That’s your car.”
Who Watches the Guáchiman? by Robert Isenberg
An older man with a boyish face will always grimace and nod. He won’t wave because his hands are always folded over his belt.
A Manual for Fire and Stories by Hannah Straton
Flames rejoice around the kindling, their elegantly dangerous silhouettes leaping from stick to log and back to stick again, bright against the dark of the night.
Together, in Orange by Joelle Berger
I hesitated to say it. I was only eleven, but everyone else, likewise entrenched in orange and black and equally pissed about the penalty, was chanting.
Nine Things Said Over a Hospital Bed by Jessica Allen
Seconds before my father collapsed from cardiac arrest, he pointed out a rabbit to his granddaughter.
Guts by Mark Sullivan
It was chaos. Mice frantically burrowed in the corners for a way out; their tiny claws worn raw.
Behind the Walls by Vance Voyles
Sitting up, I reach down into my slick, green flight bag and pick up my English to Arabic dictionary. Thumbing through the well-worn pages, I search for the words I will need today. Hospital. Doctor. Medicine.
Full House by Kathryn Bold
“Don’t open that box,” Mom warns me, when I carry it into her bedroom. “It will make you cry.” But I ignore her.
