Creative Nonfiction: Of Being by Melissa Llanes Brownlee
Your auntie has too many damn kids mom tells me one day over a glass of Chablis.
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Creative Nonfiction: Testimony From the Church of First Kisses by Jenna Devany Waters
The way the light shone through the blanket above us like sun dappling the water’s skin; the way we hovered below the surface of awakening.
Creative Nonfiction: Signs by Michael Todd Cohen
I think of the signs I didn’t see: a confusion, a slowing down, a stooping of her small frame.
Creative Nonfiction: The blood we spill and the blood we keep by Madeline Anthes
We loved so hard in those rooms. Could the walls feel it?
Creative Nonfiction: Go, she said by Lori Yeghiayan Friedman
Who could blame me for wanting to believe everything was going to be OK?
Creative Nonfiction: This Body Does Not Belong to You by Matthew Mastricova
You’re not afraid of him, not exactly.
Creative Nonfiction: Remains by Victoria Buitron
The stranger was the first body I saw.
Creative Nonfiction: Our Familiar Faces by Will McMillan
Like someone’s banging against the lid of a coffin, I think, watching my father wield his fist as a flesh and bone hammer.
Creative Nonfiction: So He May Run Who Reads It by Amanda Gaines
He might be right, you think. You might be crazy.
Creative Nonfiction: The Burying Kind by B. Tyler Lee
I can’t recall anything kind, but there must’ve been tacos and calla lilies and jazz clubs that compelled me to stay.
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