Essay: Life Lists by Elizabeth Felicetti
Many birders keep track of the birds we’ve seen on a “Life List,” with species, date and location.
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Category Archives: Essay
Nonfiction: You’ll See by Emily James
Please, God, don’t give me anything to write about, I think, as a straggly-haired technician moves the wand around inside me.
Creative Nonfiction: Four Flash Pieces by Olivia Dunn
Rust climbs happily along these old parked VWs, in no real hurry to decompose. Vines full of unnecessary flowers unfurl at their own damn leisure.
Essay: Other Things Lost by Hannah Gordon
The cancer chews holes in my bones.
I lose pieces of my skull.
Essay: Sorrow for the Wings by Shawn McClure
I saw the dream hens waking and stretching their wings, remembering the sky.
Essay: But It Is Dark by Jennifer Fliss
“If I fly far enough, the blue lights will engulf me and carry me up.”
Nonfiction: Things I Wish I’d Bought by Emma Sloley
Each excavation into a lost object revealed a hidden truth—a genuine regret. But it also threw into relief how lucky I have been, to have accumulated these regrets, and survived them.
Nonfiction: Systole, Diastole by Darlene Young
I see that my own fears, like a misdirecting valve in the heart, can interfere with tenderness.
Nonfiction: Round Down by Alle C. Hall
I wasn’t a cheater. A cheater was something more solid. I accepted the preferred reality as truth. Then, I forgot about it. I mean, genuinely forgot.
Nonfiction: Everything You Left Behind by Marlene Olin
Like Kafka’s cockroaches, the Styrofoam head lives forever. Only we disintegrate to dust.
