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Category: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir

A Cooking Lesson by Susan Earl

January 13, 2021 admin 1 Comment

The day after my grandmother died, I stayed home from school. She’d had a heart attack when my parents and I were on a picnic at Bear Mountain State Park. By the time we heard, it was too late. Although …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: Susan Earl

Spark by Roger Barbee

December 18, 2020 admin Leave a comment

Because of some poor life choices I had made before the fall of 2005, I was working through the emotional pain my choices had left me. I was talking with a counselor once a week, and I had a cadre …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: Roger Barbee

In Flight by Hannah Garson

December 15, 2020 admin 21 Comments

“They did it again!” I shriek. Anything in flight fascinates my three-year old twin brothers, especially our family’s personal possessions flying out windows. Lying in the grass nine floors down is my fairy-godmother costume skirt.

I sprint out of the …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: Hannah Garson

The Greater Trochanter Rex by Rita Plush

December 14, 2020 admin 6 Comments

The Greater Trochanter Rex?

Seriously, doesn’t that sound like a dinosaur straight out of Jurassic Park? 

Yikes! Head for the hills! Here comes the greater trochanter rex! 

But alas, that soubriquet is not of a big, toothy and dumb-as-a-door dino, …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: Rita Plush

Pants by John L. Stanizzi

December 11, 2020 admin Leave a comment

I only spent one year at Second North School, the little public school across the street from St. Mary’s, and that’s only because St. Mary’s didn’t have a kindergarten. But right after kindergarten I was shipped across the street to …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: John L. Stanizzi

The Power of the Violin by Jarmila Kocvarova Sullivan

November 29, 2020 admin 4 Comments

Throughout history, the powerful neighbors occupied the land on which stood Soviet-dominated Czechoslovakia of my youth. Its people had a long history of pain and heartbreak. The Soviet occupation was nothing new. Perhaps it was the ability to put our …

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The Chiffonier and the Ferrule by Anita G. Gorman

November 11, 2020 admin Leave a comment

My mother, though a registered nurse, fractured the English language to the delight of some and the embarrassment of others. Swedish was her first language. My father, though a machinist, enjoyed wordplay and spoke English rather well. He, too, was …

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Woeful Days by Vashon Rivers

November 3, 2020 admin Leave a comment

Gray clouds moved overhead, blocking the sun while insulating the land. Winter after the holidays. Joy stripped from the air. Lights on houses looked silly. Mountains of snow, stained by traffic, at the corner of every road. 

I wondered how …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: Vashon Rivers

City Mouse, Country Mouse by Karen Zey

October 30, 2020 admin 3 Comments

Two pit bulls lumber to the roadside fence as my friends and I pull up to the clapboard house. The dogs’ slavering jaws and muscled shoulders strain against the wire gate. My heart races. I’m reluctant to step out of …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: Karen Zey

Come Fly With Me by Lou-Ellen Barkan

October 27, 2020 admin 4 Comments

In 2011, on a brutally hot August morning, my eighty-seven-year-old mother and I arrived at Florida’s West Palm Beach airport for her final flight to New York. On arrival, two good-natured stewards seated mom in a wheelchair and escorted us …

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Posted in: Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir Filed under: Lou-Ellen Barkan

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