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“Leaning Into the Rocks” by Pamela Galbreath
16 November 2018 on NonfictionComets. Powerful, turbulent. Looming, in chilling silence. It is difficult to think of them as ice and gas. Easier for me to think of them as massive rocks set ablaze...
The Writer's Hot Seat
The Writer’s Hot Seat: Kim Adrian
09 November 2018 on Nonfiction, The Writer's Hot SeatKim Adrian is the author of The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet, a memoir that David Shields calls “a stunning merger of form and content,” and Sock, which is part of Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons Series and...
Storystorm
Small & Large
26 October 2018 on Blog, Nonfiction, StorystormI like Small. Always have. Not because of my height, which is average. Not because of my scope, which, I like to think, is Large. But because Small, in terms...
Nonfiction
“Good Neighbors” by Theresa Starkey
12 October 2018 on Blog, NonfictionMy mother and I lived in a tiny wood panel house shaped like a squat box. We had five sets of neighbors. The family to the left of us had...
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“Holes” By Heather Knowles
04 May 2018 on Blog, NonfictionOur house was the only one for miles around with a swimming pool. “Dug that sumbitch with nothing but a pick and shovel,” Dad would say. Roughly twelve feet square,...
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“Love in Marble” by Jenne Knight
30 March 2018 on Blog, NonfictionTen years ago, my mother and I flew to Italy on an open-jaw, two-week tour, where we snaked through the country from Milan to Rome. Because we lived in different...
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“Laying on of Hands” by Matt Muilenburg
23 February 2018 on Blog, NonfictionI unwillingly entered the priesthood in seventh grade. My name appeared on the slip of paper my teacher drew from the fake chalice we would later use during our staging...
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“Creatures My Mother’s Cat Killed Last Summer” By Meredith Jeffers
15 December 2017 on NonfictionDozens of Shrews plucked from the gaps in our neighbor’s stone steps. Her patio has all but collapsed; thick weeds sprout in its cracks. The shrews dug their burrow in the disrepair....
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“Things to Overcome When Sprung From Prison” by John Langenfeld
17 November 2017 on NonfictionAfter serving a decade-and-a-half in the Texas prison system, you’ll undoubtedly have developed more than a few disabling habits. How could you not? You adjusted as needed to survive. But...
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“The Legacy” by Marlene Olin
20 October 2017 on NonfictionMy mother-in-law spent the last five years of her life writing and rewriting her will. She used whatever material was available—a paper napkin, a matchbook cover, a page torn from...
Storystorm
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,...
