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Writing Farsickness
24 March 2017 on Nonfiction, Storystorm“Fernweh is a longing to be away from home, a desire to be in a faraway place,” writes Teju Cole in the essay “Far Away from Here.” As a writer-in-residence...
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“Working Against the Current” by Keith Rebec
17 March 2017 on NonfictionDrag Boy, Drag Whenever my grandmother’s brother visited Michigan from the Ozarks to fish, it was assumed that I’d accompany him. He usually arrived, beer-gutted and wearing stained blue chinos,...
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“Countdown to Day One” by Melissa Rosato
03 February 2017 on Blog, NonfictionTwo Weeks After When I drive up, he turns away and leans inside the open window of his Camaro. The hatchback and passenger seat are filled completely with bags and...
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“House of Smokers” by Brent Fisk
04 November 2016 on NonfictionI grew up in a house of smokers. Nightstands and dining tables were marred with short black burns from smoldering cigarettes. Smoke drove me outdoors, where I absorbed fresh air...
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“High Places” by Heather N. Martin
30 September 2016 on NonfictionWhen I was sixteen, I jumped off a bridge. It was the Rexford Bridge in upstate New York—the languid Erie Canal shifting two stories beneath. And the reason was not,...
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“A Perfect Replica of Itself” by Kaylen Mallard
19 February 2016 on NonfictionI don’t think about the eggs breaking until our third stop where we order kombucha on tap. JG is not concerned about the eggs. He shifts the oversized, grey tote...
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“Luck Let Go” by Melody Gee
11 December 2015 on NonfictionOn a Tuesday morning, I checked the day’s gold price. A handful of bookmarked websites warned me against gold sharks offering cash at only scrap prices, anyone asking me...
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“The Routine” by Paige Towers
02 October 2015 on NonfictionI lure Harriet out from behind the mini-fridge and into my hand with a clump of cold, leftover white rice. “It’s time to put you away sweetheart,” I say. “Hold...
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“In the Midst of This” by Sarah Fawn Montgomery
12 December 2014 on NonfictionFrom my balcony I see a bus stop and a dumpster, lanes of traffic backed up by quarter of five, sputtering smoke snaking from a tan Toyota Tacoma, and a...
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“Honoring Autumn” by Sophfronia Scott
07 November 2014 on NonfictionHonoring autumn I turn my face to accept its first golden kiss, one silent plea for attention so honoring autumn I sit on a rock in the forest, patient audience...
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“You and You and the White Sofa” by Madeleine Harrington
03 October 2014 on NonfictionWhile the view was magnificent, no one had enjoyed looking out the window of apartment 2G of 110 East End Avenue in several years. While the wind dug white caps...
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“Looking, Then Listening” by Robert Vivian
21 March 2014 on NonfictionLooking up I saw that the sky was naked except for a few strands of clouds like trailing threads of smoke or ether that wanted so much to shine and looking I...
