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Creative Nonfiction

Averie Woodward

Road Trip

In theory, sharing a 14-hour drive with my daughter sounded like a reasonable idea. But as soon as she takes her first curve, I reflexively grab for the door handle…

Creative Nonfiction | January 2020 | By Lori Miller Kase


Christian Bowen

The Everyday

The everyday, lately, has been uneven. Our house lost power. The dog injured her leg. My husband has shingles. My employer is bankrupt. My father-in-law tore his aorta. And yet…

Creative Nonfiction | January 2020 | By Rachel Fleishman


Nancy Stapler

T is for Trust

I can only imagine what it must have been like for LJ’s birth mother to relinquish her baby, to wrap her in layers against the November chill, set her down…

Creative Nonfiction | January 2020 | By Susan Olding


Pawel Janiak

Rocky Road

For the first time since my water broke, I feel like melting into my husband’s hazel-green eyes, but then I notice the abnormally deep creases beneath them. At the hospital,…

Creative Nonfiction | January 2020 | By Sasha Bailyn


The Accident

The second time I wanted to die also involved my children. It was not the pain of deliverance, though, not the surrender of acceptance. It was the powerlessness all parents…

Creative Nonfiction | November 2019 | By Andrea J. Buchanan


Annie Spratt

Silk and Stone

I see it in everyone’s eyes when they ask how I’m doing, as if I can answer, as if I’m not a beast of grief wearing the skin of a…

Creative Nonfiction | November 2019 | By Louise Lynch


Danielle MacInnes

Cabin Fever

There’s something hypnotic about driving rain. My eyes are drawn to it as I peel potatoes for our own dinner. Carving out black bits with my vegetable knife, lines from…

Creative Nonfiction | November 2019 | By Marie O’Shea


Ray Hennessy

All Clear

Stop being ridiculous, I tell myself. Three kids is plenty, more than my share, really, when you consider our carbon footprint and the Earth’s carrying capacity and all those couples…

Creative Nonfiction | September 2019 | By Hadley Leggett


Roberta Sorge

Orange Communion

Even among her many mom powers, her technique for starting an orange awed me. After washing it (“you’ve got to wash it, you don’t know where it’s been”), she set…

Creative Nonfiction | September 2019 | By Marcy Dilworth


Photo by Meredith Porretta. See more of Meredith's work atinstagram.com/meresallnatural.

You Are the Hero of This Tale

You know the truth: you can never be the hero, and not only because you let your son enter that den of pizza. Self-congratulation feels false, itchy, after all the…

Creative Nonfiction | June 2019 | By Sharon Silver


Photo by Micheile Henderson. See more of Micheile's work at instagram.com/micheilehenderson/.

The Imaginary Husband

While Jeff and I stand there, I have the same recurring thought as always: that the leaves of the oak tree beside Dad’s grave will move in the breeze, indicating…

Creative Nonfiction | May 2019 | By Lisa Williams Kline


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