As a six foot, four inch man who weighs two-hundred and thirty-five pounds and used to be able to bench two-hundred and fifty, I’ve got this.
I’ve Got This by Caleb Owens
Category: Issues
What Cheeseburgers Look Like in Kansas by Katie O’Neill
I don’t know why I thought the drive from Indiana to California with my boyfriend, Matt, and his sister’s cats would be fun.
A Tripp Family Strike by Clancy Tripp
There are about ten days each year that the Tripp family spends all together. This, generally agreed upon by the Trapp family, is enough to last us the other 355.
Seized by Pamela Emigh-Murphy
I saw my dead sister sipping coffee early in the morning at Grand Central Station. I was scrambling for the train that would take me to Lexington and 52nd when I saw her leaning on the granite newel of the East Balcony staircase…
Butterfly Kaddish by Iris Anixter
Hiking long ago along Paradise’s flowering meadows, I found a broken-winged butterfly stuck to the spring mud.
Craft: Trending Now — Literary Citizenship by Donna Steiner
… you’ve likely heard the phrase “literary citizenship.” It’s been around for a while, but over the past couple of years has become part of the lexicon.
Review: Hollywood Digs: An Archaeology of Shadows by Ken LaZebnik
Hollywood. It is its own special kind of crazy, full of egotists and dreamers, where the idea of “failure” is unacceptable.
Review: Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed by John F. Ross.
In his new biography Enduring Courage: Ace PIlot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed … John F. Ross has made another valuable contribution to the annals of American history.
Submit Your Prompt: “I didn’t really need it, but…” — August 2014
Everyone can get involved with Hippocampus Magazine with Prompts! Each month we post a new creative nonfiction prompt, inspired by a real-life event; fact is stranger than fiction and if we experience something unbelievable, we know that others must have a similar story. This month’s prompt: “I didn’t really need it, but…” Due Aug. 27;…
Interview: Megan Hustad, author of More Than Conquerors: A Memoir of Lost Arguments
She spent her childhood moving from America to the Caribbean and then the Netherlands and back to America with parents who were struggling missionaries.
