When he withdraws his right hand from the can, I see that it’s Cholo, one of the more dangerous mental patients and he has a blue plastic Gillette razor.
A Member of the Family by Morgan Smith
Category: Issues
Big Sky Mind by Emilie Rohrbach
…here I was as the plane ascended, a 33-year-old, hunched over on my knees and harnessed to Don, a man who is supposedly in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most jumps out of an airplane…
When All Her Hair Is Gone by Jaclyn Moyer
This Thursday when Leah comes to my farm to pick up her weekly produce box, all her hair is gone. Just like that.
Mind Readers and Marble Orchards by Lasher Lane
At the wake, smoking was considered fine near the living, but thoughtless and disrespectful near the dead, so my grandmother and her sisters took a cigarette break in the downstairs lounge.
Review — Write Choices: Elements in Nonfiction Storytelling by Sue Hertz
Write Choices: Elements of Nonfiction Storytelling by Sue Hertz is, as the title suggests, focused on nonfiction storytelling and is perfect for writers who are new to the genre.
Review: Ladies of the Canyons by Lesley Poling-Kempes
Ladies of the Canyons follows the real lives of Victorian women who left the comfort of their homes and ventured into the American Southwest at a time when it was viewed as “exotic…
The Writing Life: Please Stop Writing by Jennifer Hill, Guest Columnist
I took a workshop once where the instructor said, “If you stop writing, if you never write another word, I’d still like you.”
CRAFT: 7 Things Every Aspiring Author Should Know About Publishing by Abby Norman
I thought perhaps I’d share what I’m learning as I’m learning it. Take you, the readers and the writers, on the journey with me from pitch to published book…
Never Could I Leave You by Jacqueline Heinze
My board-like body has begun to curve. There is a swoop at my waist, a rounding in my thighs. My breasts are high and swollen and unfamiliar. No matter how fast I run, I am becoming a woman.
Fisher Cats by Marissa Higgins
I was eight years old the first time my mother called me fat. I was living with my mother for the summer, as a reward for her being clean and sober.
