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Creative Nonfiction

Cassette tapes on pink background.

It’s (not) a Small World After All

The fact that this gift was purely from my father from inception to delivery was, I knew, something special.

Creative Nonfiction | July/August 2021 | By Lisa Reisig Ferrazzano


man walking with backpack

A Boy I’d Never Seen Before

His face transformed to a blank mask I could no longer see behind. The boy we knew and raised by hand―suddenly gone.

Creative Nonfiction | July/August 2021 | By Karen Richards


Toy ambulance on tabletop

Tightrope

“What happened?” asked the triage nurse in the emergency room, dabbing gently at my brow to keep the blood out of my eye.

Creative Nonfiction | July/August 2021 | By Laura Todd Carns


skier on mountain

Going to the Mountain

I’m a mother, I whisper, my hot breath crystalizing in the air. Here for relief.

Creative Nonfiction | July/August 2021 | By Laura Carnes Williams


sunlight through doorway

Let Me Tell You

For those hours, the fact of our baby would exist inside me and nowhere else.

Creative Nonfiction | May/June 2021 | By Amy Gallo Ryan


children's belongings

You Won’t Remember Me

If I died now, you wouldn’t know to cry for me. I suppose that’s a good thing.

Creative Nonfiction | May/June 2021 | By Bethany Jarmul


sunset behind plants

Waiting, to Shine Again

The day he falls ill, he calls me from where he is staying in Brooklyn. “I collapsed at work last night,” he says. “I’m sick.”

Creative Nonfiction | May/June 2021 | By Jane Gordon Julien


Ripples on water

Pathways of Ripples

This morning though, I am brimming with a restlessness I cannot place.

Creative Nonfiction | May/June 2021 | By Seema Reza


Legs with sneakers standing on both sizes of a yellow line in the road.

Can You Tie My Shoe?

My nightly glasses of wine soon became empty bottles hidden in my endless quest for oblivion.

Creative Nonfiction | March/April 2021 | By Kris Martinez


Empty video game arcade.

Back in Time

Even the best efforts of a helicopter mom could not make our new reality normal.

Creative Nonfiction | January/February 2021 | By Chanel Brenner


Woman wrapped in plaid blanket

Wire Mother

A mother displaying such self-interest seems quintessentially cold and wiry.

Creative Nonfiction | January/February 2021 | By Sylvia Baedorf Kassis


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