He advises you to take the lower bunk. It will be easier, he says, when you stagger home drunk…
In the Hostel by Lukas Lom
Category: September 2018
Mourning What I Barely Had, Flushed by Lisa E. Wright
I was sure of your presence two weeks after I missed my period.
Lessons in Disaster by Melissa Stephenson
The room went silent as we watched the Space Shuttle Challenger rise into the sky and explode.
Freckled Boy, Small Wrists by Meg Rodriguez
The first refugee that I came to know in Greece was a small boy whose name I could not at first pronounce.
Age of Discovery by Matt W. Miller
We did nothing to make those kids hate us….
Moment of Zen by Margie Patlak
Nearly every day, my brother Joe tinkered with the world, the world he was leaving.
Review: Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot
Terese Marie Mailhot reflects on the challenges of negotiating the gap between the ugly truth and the art she hopes to make out of it
Review: Finding Stillness in a Noisy World by Jana Richman
Richman explores the sanctity and desire for solitude in fifteen essays on varying topics…
Review: When History Is Personal by Mimi Schwartz
Among Schwartz’s most thought-provoking pieces is “In The Land of Double Narrative.”
CRAFT: Truth is Elusive — The Art of the Suppose by Beth Kephart, a special to Hippocampus Magazine
[Editor’s note: This essay was excerpted from Beth Kephart’s Aug. 25 opening address at HippoCamp 2018, Hippocampus Magazine’s annual conference for creative nonfiction writers.] We live in a truth-imperiled world. We live among fakers and relativists, liars and cheats, embellishers and subjectivists. We live afraid that the truth could be anything, or will remain forever…
